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re: LSU housing over capacity; students temporarily staying at Ion faced roaches, rats
Posted on 8/20/25 at 10:29 am to Upperdecker
Posted on 8/20/25 at 10:29 am to Upperdecker
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Not sure. But I think they bank on a lot of locals getting a housing exemption and staying at home.
quote:Thank you for posting this!
But students sign up in advance and get approved for housing. They basically sign up that they want housing, then when LSU approves it they assign them a room. How do you run out of rooms and have students in temp housing if they were assigned in advance?
Housing application deadlines were months ago. Students apply, LSU approves, student pays for housing with 1st semester tuition & fees, LSU assigns a room, student shows up on move-in day to their assigned building/room.
It's not like local students just decide to live on campus and show up trying to move in, LSU knew months ago how many students they'd approved for housing and how many students they'd billed/received money from.
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Posted on 8/20/25 at 10:32 am to Shorts Guy
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Convinced them to bring him to tour LSU for the sake of leaving no stone unturned and he loved it.
Good for him. Would be interesting what school in Florida he was set on for comparison sake.
And, he was an out of state student. That is one of the biggest local complaints is they treat out of state students much better than in state.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 10:37 am to deathvalleytiger10
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And, he was an out of state student. That is one of the biggest local complaints is they treat out of state students much better than in state.
All they want now are out of state students for the extra money. They even got rid of the alumni parent out of state tuition program to take in even more since a big part of their graduates move out of state. Catering to and driving up out of state student numbers has ruined the culture at southern universities.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 10:43 am to LSUTANGERINE
A lot of good information here.
LSU Freshman Profile
TLDR version
2014 / 2024 percentages
Male/Female 47/53 to 38/62
White/Black/Hispanic 73/12/6 to 50/27/12
In State / Out of State 82/18 to 62/38
I don't know how this compares to other universities, but LSU is much less male, much less white, and much less in-state over the past 11 years.
I think the overcrowding issue is due to admitting too many out-of-state applicants who enroll at a higher rate than what was estimated.
LSU Freshman Profile
TLDR version
2014 / 2024 percentages
Male/Female 47/53 to 38/62
White/Black/Hispanic 73/12/6 to 50/27/12
In State / Out of State 82/18 to 62/38
I don't know how this compares to other universities, but LSU is much less male, much less white, and much less in-state over the past 11 years.
I think the overcrowding issue is due to admitting too many out-of-state applicants who enroll at a higher rate than what was estimated.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 10:52 am to NorthEndZone
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In State/Out of State 62/38
This is nuts. At the rate they’re going there will be more out of state students than in state students at LSU eventually. What’s the point of being the state university when half (or a majority of in a decade) of your students have no connection to the state you’re the state university of.
This post was edited on 8/20/25 at 10:53 am
Posted on 8/20/25 at 10:52 am to msap9020
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I understand all of this but you missed the part where I said he is a returning junior. When I was at LSU, upper classmen had some priorities for certain things like class registration, parking, etc. Guess those days are gone.
Yeah, a Junior should absolutely have priority for class registration and parking.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 10:53 am to deathvalleytiger10
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My children toured dozens of schools in the Southeast as they made choices for their schooling. LSU put on the absolute worst tour and it was not even close. We were dumbfounded at how poor it was. My oldest still brings it up.
Our tour was fine.
Kinda hot and ran kinda long but nothing to really consider as worst much less absolute worst. 
Posted on 8/20/25 at 11:17 am to msap9020
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Yeah my son (returning Junior) just found out they ran out of parking passes?!?! WTF??? How do you math that? Bunch a morons running that place right now.
Less morons and more focusing on making the University less white while hiding this behind white coaching hires fooling alumni into thinking the man who wrote papers claiming that math is racist wasn’t going to push his well known racial politics onto the school as its President.
Tate and one of his sista hires he took with him to Rutgers still had the time while being paid by LSU to research and write a paper on Southern’s funding issues and alleged deficits owed to Southern by the state. They even presented it to the governor - JBE - before it got publicly published.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 11:22 am to RT1941
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Housing application deadlines were months ago. Students apply, LSU approves, student pays for housing with 1st semester tuition & fees, LSU assigns a room, student shows up on move-in day to their assigned building/room.
Lots of bad info in this thread. Students signup for on campus housing and then get a registration slot. The students pick their dorm and bed based on their priority.
LSU, like all universities, admits more students than they expect will enroll. They don't know exactly from year to year how many will get admired and go elsewhere. The students making late decisions or not completing registrations in a timely manner are the ones getting forced to these alternative living arrangements. No university is going be able to predict exactly what number of students decide to enroll and there is going to be a couple of percentage point variance from year to year.
Like airlines, they would rather be full and then figure out how to adapt then have empty rooms.
Same deal with parking passes. If you needed one as a commuter it opened on July 3rd then, although it sucks that the sold out, if you missed out by waiting until August to get one...that's more on you than LSU.
This post was edited on 8/20/25 at 11:24 am
Posted on 8/20/25 at 11:22 am to dallastigers
In crTate’s four years as President the white percentage of incoming freshmen went from 63% to 57% to 54% to 50%. That is a huge drop in 4 years and only happens if LSU is going out of their way to make it happen.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 11:30 am to The Boat
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That is a huge drop in 4 years and only happens if LSU is going out of their way to make it happen.
Or it’s following population trends in the state. Hispanic population is up by 2% & those who identify as multiracial doubled in the last 5 years. It’s not just an increase in black kids getting admitted, it’s other races too.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 11:57 am to The Boat
DEI and woke has consequences.
I can see running out of parking passes, but running out of housing is pure stupidity.
I can see running out of parking passes, but running out of housing is pure stupidity.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 12:03 pm to The Boat
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This is nuts. At the rate they’re going there will be more out of state students than in state students at LSU eventually. What’s the point of being the state university when half (or a majority of in a decade) of your students have no connection to the state you’re the state university of.
More out of state students = more $$$$
This post was edited on 8/20/25 at 12:04 pm
Posted on 8/20/25 at 12:06 pm to LSUTANGERINE
The Standard (Ion) has been a POS from Day One.
How it ever passed inspection is unbelievable.
Of course, BR so it makes sense...
How it ever passed inspection is unbelievable.
Of course, BR so it makes sense...
Posted on 8/20/25 at 12:16 pm to NorthEndZone
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In State / Out of State 82/18 to 62/38
Then LSU should receive proportionally less funding from the legislature.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 12:21 pm to spacecitydude
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BS. When I went to LSU you needed to have a Social Security Number, a HS Degree, and you had to take Physics in HS. Basically they took anyone with a pulse and it was fin
I know a couple of people who got in with 3,0 GPAs and a 19 ACT. It’s harder now.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 12:22 pm to OysterPoBoy
Thanks. That’s about what I figured but you sure wouldn’t think it driving around campus
Posted on 8/20/25 at 12:41 pm to pelicanpride
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I know a couple of people who got in with 3,0 GPAs and a 19 ACT. It’s harder now.
Doubtful. Grade inflation is a big issue. Those 3.0 GPAs from 20-25 years ago are now 4.0 in a lot of schools. More than half the students don’t even submit an ACT because they can’t score high enough - despite there being way more resources to prepare than before.
Posted on 8/20/25 at 1:14 pm to Indefatigable
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Granted they shouldn’t have admitted more than they could house but honestly 170 isn’t that enormous of a number. As someone else said they probably banked on local students staying at home who didn’t.
But how do you not account for that? Do they not open up enrollment or something months prior to pick where you move? I recall going online in early 2000s and getting my spot in ECA.
How do you get dorm assignments and shite now?
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