re: LSU oversold parking passes, and even ran out of passes

25 plus years later, and we are still upset about parking. I guess it was never in the master plan.

They likely oversell with the anticipation that not everyone will be there at once.

Give it a few weeks, then students start to cut classes and your daughter will have a spot.

She is that upset for not being able to park to go to class?
I thought you were talking about something important like a football game.

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Right now you have students that live off campus that can't park anywhere on campus no matter the time of day, when or how early they show up or how crowded it is without getting a ticket or towed.

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welcome to reality. I attended a different school for 5 years and never once was able to park on campus, ever. Thoughts and prayers to these unfortunate souls

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Have a returning senior and returning junior and they cant park on campus anywhere. LSU intranet was down half the day yesterday so people couldn't even access their schedules to see the location of their classes.

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Eh, this is one of those valuable things college teaches you. How to deal with problems, how to deal with people you don't like, etc.

College was super hard for me. I had to work 2 or 3 part time jobs while in school, I wasn't the smartest dude in the room anymore and had to study hard, was perpetually down to my last $100 all semester long and couldn't spend anything in the summer because I was going to need it all. In hindsight, compared to working and raising kids, it was a cakewalk. I'd love to go back and slap the shite out of myself, I could have absolutely made better grades and thus made more money, and probably graduated a year earlier, if I had applied more effort. I just thought it was hard, it really wasn't. I didn't have a family depending on me. I had me depending on me.

I’ve never seen regular school traffic like this.

How much did they up enrollment?

It’s like Gameday traffic right now.

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Certainly there will be a factor of attendance dropping over the coming weeks, but I still believe things are not running right over there. Should they sell at 110%, 130%, 150% of capacity or greater for parking, I don't know, but they should. That's their job.

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It’s not just about attendance dropping, it’s about students learning how to deal with parking & traffic and adjusting accordingly.

Putting that aside - you admit you don’t know how many parking permits they should sell relative to capacity. You also don’t know how many parking permits they did sell relative to capacity. But despite not knowing how many they sold or how many they should have sold, you’re convinced they oversold parking permits? Why?

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Here is where I disagree greatly. In the past, LSU was dirt cheap to attend. When I was in school it was less than $1000 per semester. You understood it was an underfunded school, but it was cheap. No longer. The parents paying to send kids here, especially out of state full high tuition, have a right to ask questions.

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I’m going to throw some numbers out there for consideration. The following is based on unrestricted funding per FTE (full time equivalent) enrollment, from LSU financial reports using 2024 dollars:
- From 2008 to 2024, tuition & fees funding per FTE increased by $4,941.
- From 2008 to 2024, state appropriations decreased by $9,060.

In other words, every $1 increase in tuition/fee revenue per student over that time period has been accompanied by a ~$1.83 reduction in state funding per student.

The burden has been shifted from direct state appropriations to the students/families and, consequently, to TOPS as well. The latter point is a big one - it’s a double-whammy to families because of higher tuition and less support from TOPS.

Reasonable people can disagree about whether that’s good or bad. I’m not so sure myself. But the reality is that the cost per student is lower today than it was in 2008. The difference (other than inflation) is that families are responsible for a larger portion of that cost.

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Too many students. How about some admission standards instead of everyone with a pulse getting in.

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i’m pretty sure it’s harder than ever to get into LSU

I'm sure the same thing has happened at other schools

They need another parking garage badly. But it’s only because it’s the first week. It’ll get better.

Yall think enrollment is high now wait until we win another national championship. It’ll go up a lot.