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re: No wonder smart kids are going to out of state schools - LSU sucks for scholarships
Posted on 1/17/19 at 2:04 pm to bee Rye
Posted on 1/17/19 at 2:04 pm to bee Rye
I attend LSU with the highest TOPS and pay about $7500 a yr including housing and meal plan. That’s cheaper than my high school tuition. Not too bad IMO. Had about a 3.7 in hs with a 28 ACT
ETA: I completely agree that TOPS standards need to be raised, however. Getting full tuiton with a 22 ACT is a massive joke. The amount of money a student gets from LSU with a 36 ACT vs a student with a 22 ACT is so small it’s embarrassing.
ETA: I completely agree that TOPS standards need to be raised, however. Getting full tuiton with a 22 ACT is a massive joke. The amount of money a student gets from LSU with a 36 ACT vs a student with a 22 ACT is so small it’s embarrassing.
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Posted on 1/17/19 at 2:04 pm to udtiger
Yep. LSU does not compete. Daughter made 36 on her ACT and 1500 on SAT. Lots of AP and honors classes plus college credits and they only offered 5500 plus tops. She is going to Alabama. Full ride, plus stipend each month. Bama offered her more than LSU, RICE, Baylor or Tulane. Her mom and I both graduated from LSU but I am happy to send her to Bama
Posted on 1/17/19 at 2:05 pm to udtiger
I can’t blame LSU here
The schools these days give a 4.28 fake snowflake gpa and it doesn’t balance out the 12 on the act
The schools these days give a 4.28 fake snowflake gpa and it doesn’t balance out the 12 on the act
Posted on 1/17/19 at 2:05 pm to notiger1997
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Apply at Alabama. They will throw money at you.
and your child will come back with a coke habit or worse, with an houndstooth "A" sticker on his car.
Posted on 1/17/19 at 2:07 pm to udtiger
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and LSU has only offered about $3500/year in non-TOPS scholarship $$$.
What about with TOPS? I had a 3.8 with a 31 ACT and wouldn't have paid a dime if I went there. Granted this was 12 years ago.
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Posted on 1/17/19 at 2:07 pm to udtiger
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Posted on 1/17/19 at 2:07 pm to udtiger
Do they not still have the Top 100 scholarship? You get that after TOPS and LSU pays you about $1000/semester to go there. IIRC there was a level superior to that if you had 33 ACT plus some other GPA requirements.
Posted on 1/17/19 at 2:08 pm to 777Tiger
I think Mingo can be as much as a pompous/self-assures arse as you do, but he’s 100% right here. TOPS was meant to keep the best and brightest home and that’s what it did while Taylor was alive.
Once he died and it became owned by the politicians, they fricked it all up by lowering standards and redistributing it to every Tom dick and Harry that has a pulse
Once he died and it became owned by the politicians, they fricked it all up by lowering standards and redistributing it to every Tom dick and Harry that has a pulse
Posted on 1/17/19 at 2:09 pm to LaPlace Mafia
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Daughter made 36 on her ACT
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She is going to Alabama
Seems like schools should be beating down your doors for your daughter
(Bad wording I guess)
Posted on 1/17/19 at 2:09 pm to notiger1997
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Apply at Alabama. They will throw money at you.
I’m not kidding
Gross
At least see if he can go to UGA
Posted on 1/17/19 at 2:10 pm to TigerStripes06
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Doesn’t tops provide full tuition to anyone with good enough grades and scores?
Tuition only. Fees alone are over $2k a semester. Then there is books and housing...
Posted on 1/17/19 at 2:10 pm to notiger1997
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Apply at Alabama. They will throw money at you.
I’m not kidding
maybe but the Bama Student Aid calculator says a LA student with a 4.0 and using the scores he provided
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32 ACT (36 in English)
1470 SAT (790 in Math)
you still gonna need $22,920 per year.... A Student Calculator
This post was edited on 1/17/19 at 2:13 pm
Posted on 1/17/19 at 2:11 pm to Oilfieldbiology
Posted on 1/17/19 at 2:11 pm to CoachChappy
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If your son were black and had a 2.0, they would be rolling out the red carpet for him.
Well, is your son a top notch athlete and bringing in millions to the University? No matter the race you arent getting into LSU with a 2.0 unless you are an athlete I assume.
Posted on 1/17/19 at 2:11 pm to yellowfin
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Zero chance my kids stay in state for college
I do agree with you on this but didn’t you Goto ull
Posted on 1/17/19 at 2:12 pm to TDsngumbo
It's insane. My wife received a full scholarship at LSU as an out of state applicant. Some of here sorority sisters with similar scores or better were in state and got squat. It's topsy turvy dumb shite. My wife and I are thankful though...haha
Posted on 1/17/19 at 2:12 pm to el Gaucho
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I can’t blame LSU here
The schools these days give a 4.28 fake snowflake gpa and it doesn’t balance out the 12 on the act
Can't beat that logic.
Not a subtle brag on my kid (although, I am very proud).
It's a statement of exasperation that the flagship university of this state (and my alma mater) is so miserly and cheap in rewarding in state academic achievers that it makes it very easy for them to accept offers from out of state schools.
Posted on 1/17/19 at 2:13 pm to dj30
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No matter the race you arent getting into LSU with a 2.0 unless you are an athlete I assume.
I believe you'd assume wrong. Hell, I think the admissions are only like a 2.5 and thats before all that holistic approach bullshite
Posted on 1/17/19 at 2:16 pm to Oilfieldbiology
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I think Mingo can be as much as a pompous/self-assures arse as you do
assuredly, but it's futile to make a serious response to him because in his mind he's always right and completely infallible, and everyone else is a totally out in left field baboon, when in fact he is one closed minded, tunnel visioned, ultra subjective, stick up his arse goob
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but he’s 100% right here.
not sure if I even concede that but he kind of ruins a lot of discussions around here, for me at least, because discussion is not in his vocabulary, but preaching or lecturing certainly is
Posted on 1/17/19 at 2:17 pm to TH03
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What about with TOPS? I had a 3.8 with a 31 ACT and wouldn't have paid a dime if I went there. Granted this was 12 years ago.
He's crying because she didn't get more than $3500 along with TOPS.
So tuition is paid for with TOPS, and she gets $3500 to do as she pleases.
That covers dorm and meal plans, plus probably books.
But not her luxory apartment or sorotistue funds.
Boo-fricking-hoo.
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