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Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:37 am to lsuhunt555
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And all of that can be said about Ole Miss, Auburn, Florida, Georgia and Texas. And most of those are located in a nicer city that Tuscaloosa.
Have you been to Tuscaloosa recently? City sucks dick but the area by campus totally blows LSU's northgate area away. It's night and day.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:37 am to Old Money
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Have you been to Tuscaloosa recently? City sucks dick but the area by campus totally blows LSU's northgate area away. It's night and day.
I agree with this. And the ability to live next to campus/bars/food is great.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:37 am to genro
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Maybe they just wanna get away.
And if that's your reason, simply say that's your reason. It's perfectly valid, I suppose. Don't try to pretend Tusca-fricking-loosa is somehow so much greater culturally enlightened than Baton Rouge. That's all.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:38 am to Mike da Tigah
Go prep for the apocalypse you lunatic. You're talking out of your arse again
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:38 am to TheCaterpillar
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Oxford is a town built on culture and heritage.
bullshite. What fricking culture? Pinky out pretentious wanna bees? That's not a culture. That's a place that still thinks it's living in a debutant ball, and they are the belle.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:39 am to Emiliooo
Bama has made great strides in recent years to become a national university, outpacing LSU in that regard. Of course its football success has brought it tons of money and recognition. But it has elevated its game academically even more aggressively than LSU. LSU still has too many decision-makers who will not up the admission standards, and the budget cuts in recent years have been poor p.r.
The greek situation may be of some influence. The LSU administration rides the frats unmercifully, and requires placement of all girls who rush in a sorority, stretching the budget of the sororities and hurting the overall greek experience. Someone looking forward to a traditional greek experience would do well to consider other schools than LSU as a factor in their decision.
Also, many kids are influenced by where their parents and family members went to school, and there is a lot more information easily available about schools in other states than there used to be. LSU will continue to lose some LA students, but also continue to attract some from other states that wouldn't have even considered LSU a few years ago.
LSU has improved by leaps and bounds over where it was even 10 years ago in attracting a national student body.
The greek situation may be of some influence. The LSU administration rides the frats unmercifully, and requires placement of all girls who rush in a sorority, stretching the budget of the sororities and hurting the overall greek experience. Someone looking forward to a traditional greek experience would do well to consider other schools than LSU as a factor in their decision.
Also, many kids are influenced by where their parents and family members went to school, and there is a lot more information easily available about schools in other states than there used to be. LSU will continue to lose some LA students, but also continue to attract some from other states that wouldn't have even considered LSU a few years ago.
LSU has improved by leaps and bounds over where it was even 10 years ago in attracting a national student body.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:39 am to Old Money
I still think the biggest selling point for LSU, [for out of state students] is that you are 45 minutes away from nola.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:39 am to TheCaterpillar
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My mom teaches at LSU and I grew up a couple miles from campus. That would blow for me and I went to the LSU bars in HS. It would've been 13th grade at LSU.
I'm actually always amazed by how many BR kids do stay and go to LSU. I couldn't imagine going anywhere else, but I also would have gotten a lot less out of my college experience personally if my family was 15 minutes away.
I came to LSU from Dallas, and after Vandy Dallas breaks down UGA if you can get in, Bama and Ole Miss and Arkansas if you can't. Louisiana families LSU.
Bama or Ole Miss is a really "safe" branching out for a kid from another SEC state. You're not going to deal with culture shock, and all you really have to do is make some new friends. It's a very easy way to get away from home for four years.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:39 am to Y.A. Tittle
I did nothing of the sort.
And I didn't go to Alabama out of high school either
And I didn't go to Alabama out of high school either
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:40 am to Y.A. Tittle
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isn't a European foreign exchange program. It's Tuscaloosa ALABAMA and Oxford MISSISSIPPI
I went to BRMHS then LSU. Parents also works at LSU. huge mistake. I live at home with my parents and eat lunch with high school people. I should've gone somewhere else. But Alabama and Mississippi are the same experience as LSU. Aint the same thing as going to Berkeley or Vassar. Huge state schools, majority white, and wtf would you want to go to Bama
This post was edited on 2/24/14 at 9:45 am
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:40 am to JBeam
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Gainesville sucks arse.
No worse than Tuscaloosa.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:41 am to DadFanAlum
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Bama has made great strides in recent years to become a national university, outpacing LSU in that regard.
Ehhh, I can assure you, you're not going to find many places or settings, outside of Louisiana or Alabama, where anyone would think any different of you if you said you graduated from Bama versus LSU.
For all intents and purposes, they are exactly the same.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:41 am to Old Money
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City sucks dick but the area by campus totally blows LSU's northgate area away. It's night and day.
I understand that, but you still have to reside in the city. Just like thinking you can just live right around LSU and it be nice, if you go north you may get stabbed.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:41 am to lsuhunt555
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No worse than Tuscaloosa.
Way worse.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:42 am to lsuhunt555
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No worse than Tuscaloosa.
If we're looking at this from a atmosphere sense. I'll take UA over UF any day of the week. The student body at UA is pretty delusional. But, I can tolerate them to a point.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:43 am to Mike da Tigah
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Mike da Tigah
Dude, I loathe Ole Miss and everything it stands for, but Oxford actually does have a pretty cool culture once you get past the self-important snobs.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:43 am to JBeam
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I still think the biggest selling point for LSU, [for out of state students] is that you are 45 minutes away from nola.
A huge portion of OOS kids that I've known at LSU had family connections to the state. At least half seem to have had a parent who went to school here and left (I did this, and looking back I should have taken notes on the fact that my parents GTHO).
New Orleans may be a big sell to some, but the idea of Louisiana as some sort of "home" is probably the biggest sell. LSU doesn't sell itself to OOS students that just want to do something different, or hit an SEC school.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:45 am to LSUGrad9295
Ole Miss is where the rich kids go. A few rich kids go to Bama or GA, but Ole Miss is THE Destination.
Posted on 2/24/14 at 9:45 am to LSUGrad9295
This has always been going on. In Baton Rouge particularly with Ole Miss and Georgia. Becoming a Gump has added cultural shock effect. Imagine paying OOS tuition to go to another SEC school.
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