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Posted on 11/19/25 at 7:50 pm to dallastigers
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1,792 freshman enrollees with 4.0s did not submit ACT or SAT scores
Some lady on Facebook said her daughter was a freshman at LSU with a 4 point something GPA and a 17 ACT. She applied test optional.
Grade inflation is insane these days.
Posted on 11/19/25 at 9:02 pm to dallastigers
Why does LSU want to do this? What does it gain?
Posted on 11/19/25 at 9:18 pm to Shexter
Kinda disappointed. Would’ve thought this was a ragincajun03 post. Cut/paste/bold/link with no commentary or opinion
Posted on 11/19/25 at 9:44 pm to Dixie2023
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Why does LSU want to do this? What does it gain?
Ask the 2 past woke Presidents of the university including the black one who was about critical race theory and math being racist before LSU hired him.
Throw in a few of Dem party first “moderate” Bel Edwards board appointees including one attorney who liked to sue over racial crap had less connections to LSU and were more about race baiting.
Some of Tate’s hires including the honors college are also about race. Tate and his head of the graduate school did research and wrote a paper on Southern being shorted funding by the state while employed by LSU.
Tate fooled the white alumni by not forcing black coaches on them and pushing inflated GPAs and voluntary ACT super scores as “proof” the blacks he was bringing in were top notch students wanted by all. If any white alumni started to question it Tate could just show support for an athletic team, and the white alumni would think he has been such a good hire as they just focus on sports as a measure of the success of LSU’s academic side. Sports at LSU are a white alumni’s bling bling, and they just ignored what was happening or didn’t think to read the fine print of the BS Tate was pushing about each incoming freshman class.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 7:21 am to dallastigers
Well, hopefully they can fix this. Nothing good about letting it proceed. I remember when my daughter applied for 2016, there was a minimum gpa and test scores. Quite different from when LSU used to admit anyone with a pulse. Needs to get back to selective admission.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 8:55 am to dallastigers
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LSU is allowing inflated grades with only 47% of freshman class enrollees submitting ACT/SAT scores last fall (2024) which included over 600 more enrollees with “4.0” GPAs not submitting scores than the “4.0” GPAs enrollees submitting scores. For the fall 2024 an estimated 1,148 freshman enrollees with 4.0s submitted ACT or SAT scores while an estimated 1,792 freshman enrollees with 4.0s did not submit ACT or SAT scores.
This is social justice in action.
High school GPAs lose their value.
An LSU degree loses its value while at the same time getting more expensive for the suckers that pay for it themselves.
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LSU is basically helping to fund the increase of poorer black students with inflated grades (that are likely to also be from out of state) and the decrease of white students.
LSU is to some extent a jobs program for middling administrators, so needs more and more students to pay salaries.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 9:22 am to Earnest_P
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LSU is to some extent a jobs program for middling administrators, so needs more and more students to pay salaries.
A lot of the students they are letting in won’t make it to their junior year before failing out. It’s a predatory money grab.
At some point there will be a crackdown and giant universities like this will be trying to fill these slots and justify all of the bloat that they’ve carried to support these massive classes.
Either that or they’ll just rubber stamp passing grades and make it someone else’s problem. That seems like what higher ed has been doing lately.
This post was edited on 11/20/25 at 9:23 am
Posted on 11/20/25 at 9:25 am to Shexter
Reminds me of what happened at Baylor my junior year. We had just won the championship in men's basketball the year before and had a huge spike in enrollment. I lived off campus so none of this affected me thankfully. IIRC, they offered upperclassmen living on campus a measly $1000 scholarship if they gave up their on campus housing and lived off campus since all freshman had to live on campus. Even after that, we still didn't have enough dorm rooms on campus and the university rented out rooms at a nearby hotel for the entire school year and made some freshman live there. My friends and I just laughed because the university had just broken ground on this giant welcome center that we did not need whatsoever and wondered why they didn't build a new dorm on that piece of land.
This post was edited on 11/20/25 at 9:27 am
Posted on 11/20/25 at 9:49 am to dallastigers
Ha! That is very sad and hilarious all at the same time.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 10:10 am to dewster
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Either that or they’ll just rubber stamp passing grades and make it someone else’s problem.
This seems inevitable unless someone at a high level makes it a priority to fight it. Hopefully the recent shakeups in leadership prevent lowering of standards.
Posted on 11/20/25 at 10:15 am to theliontamer
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They also need to get rid of all the run down housing around campus.
Pure fantasy. The title to most of those homes is so convoluted, it's nearly impossible to tell who can actually give permission to sell a property. "It's my momma's auntie's brother's second cousins house," etc. An architect I worked with 25 years ago enlightened me.
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