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re: Vote to change TOPS to need based or ACT at least 30 FAILS
Posted on 5/10/17 at 3:46 pm to tigerskin
Posted on 5/10/17 at 3:46 pm to tigerskin
Should be tiered.
30 full
28 80
26 60
24 40
22 20
Drop the 24 and 22 over the next 5 years.
3.0 freshmen.
2.75 after to maintain.
4.0 freshman and sophomore to bump up a tier for junior and senior.
30 full
28 80
26 60
24 40
22 20
Drop the 24 and 22 over the next 5 years.
3.0 freshmen.
2.75 after to maintain.
4.0 freshman and sophomore to bump up a tier for junior and senior.
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Posted on 5/10/17 at 3:47 pm to The Pirate King
quote:
People with 30 on the ACT are likely getting a full ride
I got a 30 and I didn't get a full ride to LSU. Just full TOPS (which I lost freshman year by being a freshman idiot
)
Posted on 5/10/17 at 3:49 pm to ZappBrannigan
quote:
4.0 freshman and sophomore to bump up a tier for junior and senior.
Then you'd be bumping a bunch of people getting useless degrees.
Posted on 5/10/17 at 3:50 pm to 03GeeTee
quote:
Might as well get rid of TOPS if you make those changes. Poor people and people with 30+ ACT scores already get free tuition most of the time.
The way it is now, they might as well make college free, like public K-12.
Posted on 5/10/17 at 3:50 pm to tigerskin
That's great news
Posted on 5/10/17 at 3:51 pm to ZappBrannigan
That's too high. 25% score 24 or more.
Posted on 5/10/17 at 3:51 pm to Nation of Buga
quote:30 is too high but the problem with GPA is they don't necessarily carry the same validity from one school to another. Hell even from one teacher to another.
They could have at least increased the GPA requirement to 3.0. Bumping the ACT to 30 is ridiculous though.
Posted on 5/10/17 at 3:51 pm to MaHittaMaHitta
quote:Youbshould have been forced to pay that back.
I got a 30 and I didn't get a full ride to LSU. Just full TOPS (which I lost freshman year by being a freshman idiot )
Posted on 5/10/17 at 3:52 pm to rt3
quote:
I only had a 28
Me too
Posted on 5/10/17 at 3:52 pm to Thib-a-doe Tiger
quote:If you score lower than a 24, you shouldn't go to college.
25% score 24 or more.
Posted on 5/10/17 at 3:53 pm to Geauxtiga
quote:
30 is too high but the problem with GPA is they don't necessarily carry the same validity from one school to another. Hell even from one teacher to another.
Yeah but it's a better measure of longevity vs a one day test, or one that you can take 30 times to bump your scores up
Posted on 5/10/17 at 3:54 pm to tigerskin
quote:
Those with ACT 30
That's like a perfect score, right? There's computers that can't get that score!!!
Posted on 5/10/17 at 3:54 pm to Thib-a-doe Tiger
quote:Good point.
Yeah but it's a better measure of longevity vs a one day test, or one that you can take 30 times to bump your scores up
Posted on 5/10/17 at 3:54 pm to Thib-a-doe Tiger
quote:
made a 24. I guess I is dumb
Got a 25 in 10th grade. Never took it again. I hate standardized tests
Posted on 5/10/17 at 3:56 pm to LucasP
quote:
Those with ACT 30
That's like a perfect score, right?
Ummmmm, no.
Posted on 5/10/17 at 3:56 pm to Scruffy
quote:I know many feel like that but I don't. He earned it for the semester(s) he received it. When he no longer earned it, it no longer existed.
Youbshould have been forced to pay that back.
Posted on 5/10/17 at 3:58 pm to The Pirate King
quote:
Couple that with the fact that TOPS basically grants the poor inner city kids the chance to go to college for free, and few legislators are gonna vote for that.
If poor kids wanted to go to college bad enough they'd learn how to catch a football
Posted on 5/10/17 at 3:58 pm to beerJeep
quote:
Got a 25 in 10th grade. Never took it again. I hate standardized tests
I think I took it twice in 11th. Made exact same score. Was hung over both times, and 24 was good enough to do what I needed to do. I wasn't thinking about needing to come to the OT to brag one day
This post was edited on 5/10/17 at 4:00 pm
Posted on 5/10/17 at 4:01 pm to Thib-a-doe Tiger
Yeah. I scored high enough to go to lsu. Which was the only college I applied to. So why waste my time, money, and Saturday to take a test I already "passed"?
Lost tops my first year and still graduated with zero student loan debt
Lost tops my first year and still graduated with zero student loan debt
Posted on 5/10/17 at 4:01 pm to tigerskin
There are enough need based scholarships. TOPS was intended to keep the best and brightest in the state. Then it became free college for everybody to go party and flunk out. Then when you try to walk it back to the best and brightest it becomes racist, so now it becomes a need based scholarship. 
Typical Louisiana. Somebody comes up with a good idea for the state, then everybody wants to get a peace of it so it ends up being welfare and not affordable. But we do it anyway.
Typical Louisiana. Somebody comes up with a good idea for the state, then everybody wants to get a peace of it so it ends up being welfare and not affordable. But we do it anyway.
This post was edited on 5/10/17 at 4:13 pm
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