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re: Over 62,000 students applied to LSU this school year.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 1:15 pm to NFLSU
Posted on 4/2/26 at 1:15 pm to NFLSU
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That and the Jerry Jones effect in Dallas.
I am not sure Jerry has any effect at all. The people I know are Saints fans. I believe it has more to do with non-resident tuition award scholarships that Arkansas.
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Posted on 4/2/26 at 1:23 pm to SneezyBeltranIsHere
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Like many schools, LSU promotes itself in a variety of ways, and is very liberal with application fee wavers, because they want as many students as possible applying. Why? So they can reject more students. This gives the appearance of the school being more selective and this drives up the median standardized test scores.
Haha LSU has one of the highest acceptance rates in the country.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 1:33 pm to Shexter
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Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge has a total enrollment of 42,016 for the fall 2024 semester
That has to be including online students for fall 2024 semester and maybe the non-degree students/duel enrolled high school students.
Enrollment at a glance has total 36,946 for fall of 2024 and that includes 3,480 duel enrollees from high schools.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 1:34 pm to dallastigers
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difference in standards standardized testing only for below 3.5 GPAs
My kid is entering in the fall. There was a minimum ACT math score in order to not have to take the ALEKS placement testing.
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including pushing more in state scholarships to keep the better students in the state starting in the fall of 2027.
They offered zero scholarships to my kid. 4.3 GPA and a 28 on the ACT
I know of some kids who made 31+ and they received scholarships.
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FASFA does that automatically. Mine got accepted to schools all over the country that she would never even consider going to.
I'm wondering what percentage of this 62,000 applications was automatic via FAFSA
This post was edited on 4/2/26 at 1:36 pm
Posted on 4/2/26 at 1:37 pm to dallastigers
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That has to be including online students for fall 2024 semester and maybe the non-degree students/duel enrolled high school students.
Post graduates included
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Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge has a total enrollment of 42,016 for the fall 2024 semester, comprising 34,502 undergraduates and 7,514 postgraduates. The student body is 56.7% female and 43.3% male, with a diverse population including 57% white and 21% Black students. It is the largest university in the state.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 1:44 pm to ParkRanger
Nah. LSU has a ~70% acceptance rate, far from the highest in the country. Many schools have acceptance rates well into the 90s.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 1:52 pm to ChEgrad
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As a former student who lived on campus for three years, I think living on campus has many benefits. Campus has everything you need.
While may be true, it should not be required and living off campus has many benefits as well.
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I just don’t see the downside.
The requirement. Thats the downside. Let people make the best decision for themselves their family and their situation. Individual responsibilities with individual consequences and accomplishments.
And, the requirement is a a HUGE reason the cost went up in the first place.
Everything campus offers can still be offered if it wasn't required.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 1:56 pm to Shexter
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My kid is entering in the fall. There was a minimum ACT math score in order to not have to take the ALEKS placement testing.
It’s about not requiring standardized testing for admissions, honors admissions, and scholarships being handed out by LSU. Those with inflated HS GPAs would rather get in and get their money without getting exposed by ACT or SAT scores, and they will just take ALEKS or whatever else LSU allows.
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including pushing more in state scholarships to keep the better students in the state starting in the fall of 2027.
They offered zero scholarships to my kid. 4.3 GPA and a 28 on the ACT
I know of some kids who made 31+ and they received scholarships.
Besides only implementing the partial standardized testing requirement for 2027 and then a full implementation for fall 2028 i still don’t think LSU is going to properly weigh the testing and just make it one attribute among many holistic ones that the committee considers. It will at least allow for at least one standardized factor for comparisons and audits of admissions and rewarded scholarships by the committee.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 2:24 pm to Shexter
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That has to be including online students for fall 2024 semester and maybe the non-degree students/duel enrolled high school students.
Post graduates included
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Louisiana State University (LSU) in Baton Rouge has a total enrollment of 42,016 for the fall 2024 semester, comprising 34,502 undergraduates and 7,514 postgraduates. The student body is 56.7% female and 43.3% male, with a diverse population including 57% white and 21% Black students. It is the largest university in the state.
Can you provide a link to the data.
Enrollmentment at glance includes graduate students on campus as well.
Enrollment at a glance has total 36,946 for fall of 2024 which includes 3,480 duel enrollees from high schools, 4,642 graduate & professional students, and 28,824 undergraduate students.
Not sure if below link will keep data at fall of 2024, and you might have to select them again
https://www.lsu.edu/data/student-data/dashboards/at_a_glance.php
Enrollment at a glance comes closest to matching census data for fall of 2024 which has a separate section for online enrollees and also has separate columns for non-degree students (but doesn’t define it there & doesn’t exactly match duel-enrollees while being close).
https://www.lsu.edu/data/student-data/census-day-enrollment/enrollment-comparison/2_status_headcount/fall/status_fall24_day14.pdf
edit: found what makes up non-degree students, and it does include dual credit high school students but is not limited to that.
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Non-degree includes students in programs such as concurrent enrollment, integrated community studies, LSU Global, non-matriculated, exchange, cooperative education, or are not regularly admitted. Office of Data and Strategic Analytics
This post was edited on 4/2/26 at 3:47 pm
Posted on 4/2/26 at 2:27 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.
No they still will.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 2:27 pm to PSS101
That's wild. This is what having a very visible athletic program gets you.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 2:40 pm to PSS101
85% out of state. It’s the same story at most of the flagship schools in the sec.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 3:09 pm to TTU97NI
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From what I see, Texas kids either stay local. OR they go north, Oklahoma, Arkansas
I live in central Houston and see more signs for LSU (flags, seasonal decor, bumper stickers) than I do A&M. I’m not even kidding. There are FIVE alumni on my block alone. (That I know of. Could be more). Texas kids who can’t get into A&M or UT start looking around for closest SEC school. In East Texas, that’s LSU.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 3:11 pm to PSS101
quote:how many normally apply?
Over 62,000 students appied to LSU this school year.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 3:15 pm to cdur86
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I think there is something called Common App. This was after my time but I believe you can send your application to multiple schools at the same time for a flat fee. Someone with kids that age can correct me.
I’m correcting you. It costs $100-200 to apply depending upon school. However, certain people can check a box and have all those fees waived (financial
Aid, military,etc) I was not one of those. In middle of third kid applying to colleges right now. There is NO point to applying to 100 schools and that kid wouldn’t have done it if he had to pay. My youngest gets 2 reach/2 on target/2 safety. That’s it.
Posted on 4/2/26 at 3:18 pm to Chicken
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Over 62,000 students appied to LSU this school year.
how many normally apply?
This is from 2016 to 2024. Without a link to source of 62,000 I am not sure if 62,000 is including only new freshman entering college for the first time or also including transfers, readmissions, and/or grad students. If LSU has posted 2025 applications it is not in same spot as 2024.
https://www.lsu.edu/data/student-data/trend_report/appstats.pdf
Posted on 4/2/26 at 3:19 pm to Earnest_P
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And the purpose of a state university should not include crowding out local kids in favor of kids from out of state.
I agree. And it pisses me off more when foreign students crowd them out. (Talking to you UT).
Posted on 4/2/26 at 3:21 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.
With the last couple classes, they may not do that but they may join a gang…
Posted on 4/2/26 at 3:24 pm to TigerBaitOohHaHa
Couple thoughts
1) University of Texas and Texas A&M are becoming near impossible to get into for "normal Texas kids", largely due to Texas population growth. What used to be "top 10% auto into UT, top 20% A&M", has now turned into something like "top 4% into UT, top 6-8% into A&M". That top +/- 5% is reserved for i) truly truly talented kids and ii) kids with no lives outside of studying / parental pressure (yes, largely Asian demographic here)
2) Northerners coming south as all of the private liberal arts colleges are reaching tuition levels that are simply untenable given what jobs the students are getting (or put a better way, not getting) -- these folks head south to a variety of colleges; cheaper, better "college experience", same type of jobs available
1) University of Texas and Texas A&M are becoming near impossible to get into for "normal Texas kids", largely due to Texas population growth. What used to be "top 10% auto into UT, top 20% A&M", has now turned into something like "top 4% into UT, top 6-8% into A&M". That top +/- 5% is reserved for i) truly truly talented kids and ii) kids with no lives outside of studying / parental pressure (yes, largely Asian demographic here)
2) Northerners coming south as all of the private liberal arts colleges are reaching tuition levels that are simply untenable given what jobs the students are getting (or put a better way, not getting) -- these folks head south to a variety of colleges; cheaper, better "college experience", same type of jobs available
Posted on 4/2/26 at 3:29 pm to ParkRanger
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Haha LSU has one of the highest acceptance rates in the country.
.....and the only way to bring down that acceptance rate is by having more people apply.
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