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Posted on 4/2/26 at 10:11 am to La Place Mike
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How many were excepted?
Posted on 4/2/26 at 10:13 am to TTU97NI
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My demographic includes Midland and North Texas
There's a lot of DFW kids at LSU. In my time there was always 2 or 3 DFW kids in my dorm hall/apartment building or in Greek/student organizations.
In my day (late 2000's/early 2010's) most of the out of state kids had Louisiana ties. Usually their parents were Louisiana natives and moved out of state due to Louisiana's economy. Im sure that number has only increased since Louisiana isn't too pragmatic about fixing their brain drain. LSU is also more of a national brand now.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 10:16 am to Earnest_P
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The purpose of the university isn’t to make as much money as possible.
You really think universities are staying true to what their purpose is?
This is all a money grab. Just accelerate the process. The faster we get to the collapse, the faster we can start rebuilding.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 10:17 am to PSS101
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73 percent acceptance rate.
Some numbers are off here
62,000 applied
42,016 current enrollment
73% of 62,000 is 45,260
Is the entirety of the student body every year new students with 3k dropping out mid year?
LSU announced 8,153 first time freshman in 2025 which is, based on 62,000 alleged applicants a 13% acceptance rate
LSU also announced that 61.4% of that 8,153 were Louisiana residents
Posted on 4/2/26 at 10:20 am to StTiger
Most of those accepted don't actually end up attending. That's the delta if I'm not mistaken.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 10:21 am to La Place Mike
Are you fricking serious?
Posted on 4/2/26 at 10:30 am to baldona
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Why do the schools need to be responsible for housing?
It's a holdover from when universities were few and far between. Tuition included food and housing so the student could focus on school. This was well before everyone had automobiles as well as being before college campuses were seen as economic drivers (because their populations weren't large).
In that vein, a lot of students still come from families who wouldn't be able to afford the additional cost for rent and food for their kid to go to college. That said, housing either needs to be expanded to keep up with the student population (and made mandatory for at least freshmen under the age of say 25 or so, possibly sophomores as well) or heavily means tested.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 10:32 am to Grievous Angel
To his credit, he owned it a few posts down.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 10:34 am to 385 Tiger
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Most of those accepted don't actually end up attending. That's the delta if I'm not mistaken
That would be an obvious explanation if I had thought more
Are these kids getting the application fees waived or they just applying to everything and spending 1000s on applicantion fees?
Posted on 4/2/26 at 10:37 am to Shexter
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Kids today go online and rapid fire college applications out all over the country.
FASFA does that automatically. Mine got accepted to schools all over the country that she would never even consider going to.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 10:40 am to StTiger
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Are these kids getting the application fees waived or they just applying to everything and spending 1000s on applicantion fees?
Certain income levels get the fees waived
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/high-school-student-dennis-maliq-barnes-new-orleans-received-10-million-scholarships-cornell-university/#:~:text=Barnes'%20$10%20million%2Dplus%20scholarship%20haul%20is%20the,nearly%20$9%20million%20in%20scholarships%20in%202019.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 12:14 pm to PSS101
Is this just the Baton Rouge campus?
Posted on 4/2/26 at 12:30 pm to LSUfan4444
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Until / unless they drop the on campus living requirement for freshman, there is no shot in hell we are sending our daughter there.
As a former student who lived on campus for three years, I think living on campus has many benefits. Campus has everything you need. Basically never need to drive in your daily life. No worry about parking. Can walk to intramural sports, the rec center, athletic events. I just don’t see the downside.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 12:35 pm to La Place Mike
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How many were excepted?
Swing and a miss!
Posted on 4/2/26 at 12:35 pm to PSS101
quote:Not if 62,000 applied. That would be 45,000 in the freshman class. That's more than all LSU undergrad.
73 percent acceptance rate.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 12:53 pm to Jake88
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That would be 45,000 in the freshman class.
That's how many were accepted, not how many enrolled. Kids today are sending applications to 50+ different colleges and probably getting accepted at 30 of those. They can only attend one place.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 1:10 pm to 8lue
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Is this just the Baton Rouge campus?
Yes
Posted on 4/2/26 at 1:13 pm to baldona
I guarantee you that kid from New Orleans had all application fees waived on every application he turned in. Only the kids of tax paying people have to pay application fees to colleges.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 1:13 pm to danilo
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Parents are getting wise. Send your kid to a college in the South they won’t become trans and cut their dicks off.
I don’t think that this is in the main thing driving LSU’s applications. This will be the last freshman class following Tate’s policies and recruitment focus (Lee kept it going as interim). 2027 will only marginally see a difference in standards (standardized testing only for below 3.5 GPAs) but hopefully could see a shift in where it’s main focus will be including pushing more in state scholarships to keep the better students in the state starting in the fall of 2027.
For fall 2024 classes it was already above 47,000 applications by new freshman (admitted 34,513), 4,300 applications by transfers, and 5,200 applications for graduate school.
https://www.lsu.edu/data/student-data/trend_report/appstats.pdf
The above has this note which once again makes comparisons to pre-2021 data not always comparing the exact same thing.
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***Beginning in 2021, Fall graduate applications include Second Summer and First Fall LSU Online modules.
This post was edited on 4/2/26 at 1:42 pm
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