re: LSU housing over capacity; students temporarily staying at Ion faced roaches, rats

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quote: My neighbor’s son had a 4.0 gpa and scored a 35 on his ACT. Never got recruited and the parents could not even get a call back from the university. Your neighbor lied to you.

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I doubt it. My kid had a 4.3 with a 33 on the ACT and, while he wound up at LSU, LSU spent about 30 cents in postage “recruiting” him.

ULL and SLU were very aggressive with the communications, as were several out of state public and private universities.

My guess is LSU was too busy lining up the no-test, no TOPS Pell grant crowd.

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I doubt it. My kid had a 4.3 with a 33 on the ACT and, while he wound up at LSU, LSU spent about 30 cents in postage “recruiting” him.

ULL and SLU were very aggressive with the communications, as were several out of state public and private universities.

My guess is LSU was too busy lining up the no-test, no TOPS Pell grant crowd.

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Because after they sent you that letter, you visited campus with him, met with admissions, fin aid, future professors, etc. You made it easy to recruit him.

I'm sure they never sent you or him any email communications or targeted social media, either (which they probably spent tens of thousands on--and he probably saw hundreds of on his various feeds). And they didn't spend any time or money meeting with him, touring him around campus, putting together his fin aid package, negotiating it with you, etc.

Colleges don't recruit elite students by mail anymore. If they do, you're just a name they got from the College Board whose demographics fit the information the college paid for. This isn't the 1990s.

If LSU reaches out to an in-state kid with a 35 ACT and doesn't hear back, they assume that kid isn't interested in LSU. Because most of the time they aren't.

There is no world in which a 35 ACT parent (from any state) calls the LSU admissions office and never hears back. That's just a straight lie.

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ULL and SLU

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still second rate schools no matter the fancy designations they receive

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Because after they sent you that letter, you visited campus with him, met with admissions, fin aid, future professors, etc. You made it easy to recruit him. I'm sure they never sent you or him any email communications or targeted social media, either (which they probably spent tens of thousands on--and he probably saw hundreds of on his various feeds). And they didn't spend any time or money meeting with him, touring him around campus, putting together his fin aid package, negotiating it with you, etc. Colleges don't recruit elite students by mail anymore. If they do, you're just a name they got from the College Board. This isn't the 1990s. If LSU reaches out to an in-state kid with a 35 ACT and doesn't hear back, they assume that kid isn't interested in LSU. Because most of the time they aren't. There is no world in which a 35 ACT parent calls the LSU admissions office and never hears back. That's just a straight lie.

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You used a lot of words and put in a great deal of effort to be factually incorrect (at least as it pertains to my specific case) on almost everything you said in your reply.

It’s okay - LSU apologists are the norm here. The state of Louisiana exists in a position of expensive mediocrity because the plurality of residents make excuses (and, know it all).

Keep up the mid work.

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Mike
LSU was where I first became aquainted with the German Cock Roach. I was in a constant battle with them over my living space. Eventually, the roaches and I learned to co-exist. In fact, some of us are still friends to this very day.

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The palmettos are scarier, but the Germans are worse to deal with.

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I'm not a LA resident. I do believe that the initial story I was replying to is bulllshit. No one who has a 35 ACT calls the LSU admissions office, leaves a voicemail, and never hears anything. That's bunk. And it's always, "My neighbor told me..." Keep propping up that expensive mediocrity by paying your kid's tuition (and living expenses), if that's what you think it is. Or if you really believe what you are saying, don't. Send him somewhere you believe in...like ULL or SLU.

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When you speak in absolutes, you prove that you don’t know much.

Additional case in point: my kid picked based on the best economics available. I’m not coming out of pocket - not coming out to the positive, as I would have been with the ULL or SLU offers. But, no out of pocket is no out of pocket.

Keep flailing.

Where is the PMAC twerking girl staying?

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Enrollment right now at LSU's Baton Rouge campus is around 42,000.

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Where did you get this? The enrollment at a glance table has not included fall 2025 numbers yet as probably not finalized. On mobile I struggle to access some of the raw data and have to rely more on the enrollment at a glance table.

Sometimes the announced total enrollment number includes online enrollees who have less impact on the campus day to day resources, but in other reports it lists totals as the ones actually attending classes in person.

Sometimes duel-credit high schoolers are included in undergraduate totals and sometimes separated out.

The duel enrollee high schoolers and some of the professional ones are likely part timers as far as impact on resources.

The announcement article for fall 2022 enrollment has an error for undergraduate total. (Fall 2022 and spring 2025 came up at top of search in duckduck so went with those).

In late September 2022 LSU’s website had an article announcing the following fall 2022 numbers:

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This year, 7,367 freshmen enrolled surpassing last year’s record of 7,038 freshmen enrolled. Overall enrollment at LSU is also at an all-time high of 37,354 – 28,899 undergraduates and 4,584 graduate and professional students, along with 2,871 LSU Online students – 1,160 undergraduate and 1,711 graduate and professional.

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https://www.lsu.edu/mediacenter/news/2022/09/28enrollment.php

When you go to the enrollment at a glance table the total is 34,483 for fall 2022 (matches not including online students in total) including 26,851 undergraduates (difference is more than just the online undergrads and less than duel credit and the error in article) but also went up to 8,653 freshmen which must be including all classified as a freshman including any continuing who are short hours to move up in official classification.

The sub totals in quote above from LSU don’t add up to listed the 37,354 total enrollment (1,000 short). 26,851 plus the duel enrollees at 3,048 would total 29,899 and fix that 1,000 shortage, so it appears like the announcement article’s undergraduate numbers (including duel credit HS) was in error and should have stated 29,899.

Then the Spring 2025 highlights PDF says

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Undergraduate enrollment: 32,313
• Spring 2025 on-campus undergraduate total is 30,262
• Spring 2025 online undergraduate total is 2,051

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But enrollment at a glance lists 26,697 for total undergraduates on campus in Spring 2025 which does seem to be the duel credit high school enrollees which is divided out from the undergrad totals on the enrollment at a glance table.

They need get reporting mechanisms for the public and their own announcements and reporting highlights on the same page when labeling what is total enrollment, undergraduate enrollment, and freshman enrollment as far being incoming or continuing or both.

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Baton Rouge and Louisiana seriously need to invest in the road and transit network around LSU

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Besides Nicholson expanding to 4 lanes, I don’t see where else you can make improvements on campus. Highland can’t be expanded through campus but some damn left turn signals will certainly help at some intersections.

And I thought the Venue was shitty when I lived there in 2010