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Record number of LSU applicants, most from out of state


This can only be good news if Rouse is instituting the old application rules and ACT requirements that Tate fricked all up.


I have not heard of any changes. Since some early applications and offers may have already been extended for 2026 by the time the new guys took over I was thinking they might be handcuffed for the fall of 2026, but I was hoping we would hear about changes to what you mentioned for 2027 and maybe at least try to make changes for 2026 applicants and offers after a set date. I still haven’t seen anything yet.
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As a TBBT and YS fan, I was disappointed that the showrunners never finished her story arc. She was Sheldon's intellectual equal that went wild due to bad parenting and Sheldon was a person she befriended. I always theorized she eventually committed suicide...


I read that the last season being shortened down to 14 episodes might have played a part in not being able to close out her story arc.


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Reports are saying that they were using propane cylinders to heat the church. Gas might have built up over Monday and when they went in to prepare for services tomorrow, it blew.


Does Propane usually have the rotten egg smell added to it like natural gas?

Propane is heavier than air, so it could have settled somewhere low.
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This person had a long MAGA history, sorry to disrupt your narrative.


I have not read anything about him being MAGA yet, but I have not read a lot on him. I did read about some Nazi stuff, but surely you are not equating MAGA to Nazis as that would be ignorant beyond belief. Regardless didn’t a Dem candidate for Senator in Maine have a Nazi tattoo or something like this.

Also, what was he after he went trans in 2020 (another covider) and right before the shooting?

Trans have a mental disorder, and then they are lied to and abused by the left making them even more violent and erratic. Usually the person has lost the ability to think rationally and logically which then fits in with the left.

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RI hockey shooter Robert Dorgan threatened to go ‘BERSERK’ in trans-rights rant day before mass shooting

… Robert Dorgan, who also identified as Roberta Esposito, killed himself after opening fire at the Pawtucket ice rink where his son was playing on Monday afternoon — less than a week after another transgender gunman shot up a school in one of Canada’s deadliest mass shootings.

The night before the bloodshed, the 56-year-old dad — who underwent gender reassignment surgery in 2020 — made an ominous post on X in anger at someone calling trans Democratic Rep. Sarah McBride a man.



He even has the hair to match liberal/leftist women.

https://nypost.com/2026/02/17/us-news/ri-hockey-shooter-robert-dorgan-threatened-to-go-berserk-in-trans-rights-rant-day-before-mass-shooting/
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Another question if so many kids can’t get into A&M or UT…where is Texas Tech in the equation? I would assume Tech is on par or even better than LSU.


The university is better than many people think even outside of petroleum engineering. In Texas I think only Tech and Texas have their graduate schools, their law schools, and their medical schools on their main campuses. I used to have to go to Lubbock for work some. It seemed like it could be a good college town, but I was just going by what some of the people I was working with showed me. Lubbock also always seemed like there was a layer of dirt covering it.

I think it’s about the location for many with Lubbock. College Station gets that some as well, but it is also maybe 2 hours from Austin, 2 hours to Houston (closer to suburban areas). 3 hours to San Antonio, and just over 3 to Dallas area.

With Lubbock you are about 2 hours to Amarillo. I drove to Lubbock once from Dallas area, and the scenery along the way was mostly a lot of dirt and wind turbines.

I think those who visit Tech and spend time with the students there like it, but without an existing connection many that I have known in various neighborhoods or in classes with our kids just don’t visit it. Others may like the campus and students better than they thought, but they just don’t like Lubbock. It’s the opposite end of a place like Fayetteville, AR.
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The majority (almost 60%) of OOS to LSU do not per ChatGPT:

Out-of-state LSU students:
• ~44% get major LSU merit scholarships
• ~56% do not


Did it give a source to see what years were referenced and how much need based scholarships or grants were handed out? I don’t currently use ChatGPT.

LSU’s website has a lot of data, but it almost looks like someone new is running this particular area every couple of years. My previously saved links don’t always include the current years. Just like ACT scores are not always reporting the exact same score historically sometimes student numbers include online students and duel credit, and sometimes they don’t.

Sometimes a report on freshmen will include anyone under the set number of hours regardless of the amount of time at LSU or another university which isn’t inaccurate but is problematic when you try to compare some reporting for freshmen to first time first year freshman admissions just out of high school in the fall.

Sometimes LSU press releases or articles right at the start of a fall semester will contain pre-census numbers and be based on deposited numbers.

I don’t always find an AI’s search summary or answer helpful, but the links to sources can help clear things up as far as being on the same page as my intention with my search or not.

The most recent financial aid report I found was from the Fall of 2024 and actually covered the prior year 2023-2024 - https://www.lsu.edu/data/common-data-set/2024/8_2425_finaid.pdf

I am also looking for some of the fall 2025 data that was reported for fall 2024 incoming freshmen under the common data set like below - https://www.lsu.edu/data/common-data-set/2024/3_2425_admissions.pdf

Fall 2024 FIRST-TIME, FIRST-YEAR ADMISSION
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Total first-time, first-year who applied 47065
Total first-time, first-year who were admitted 34513
Total first-time, first-year who enrolled 7925

Submitting SAT Scores 7% 569
Submitting ACT Scores 40% 3,194


For anyone here is link to some of dashboard reporting- https://www.lsu.edu/data/student-data/index.php
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McKenna Grace



Even though she has been in a lot of stuff for just being 19 I can really only remember her from Young Sheldon, but her character Paige should have had more stories. Being a brainiac while being and playing like a regular kid with Sheldon’s sister and then being a hormonal teenager with a split up family served as good contrast to Sheldon and Sheldon’s family. I was disappointed that she wasn’t still at his dorm room when Sheldon, the mom, and the sister drove back to the college after Sheldon realized something was going on with her.

I also didn’t recognize her when she first showed back up as a visiting professor’s assistant. I kept thinking how could either of her parents let her travel with a professor at her age, but that was part of the contrast between the two.
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You said Texas kids with money don’t go to LSU.


Show me where I stated exactly this including it being about past enrollees from Texas and include the exact context in which it was stated. Hint: I included my exact words and their context in an earlier reply

You keep stating that I have said this and have said it in an absolute manner with zero context required to understand its meaning while also implying if not stating that I was talking about all past, current, and future enrollees.

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You were quickly proven wrong. Multiple times.
Not even once unless you think straw man arguments are valid.

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Take your L and move on

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More laughing at a proven dumbass from me***


And you have again reached down to bottom of Graham's hierarchy of disagreement.

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The son of the billionaire from Texas graduated in 2022


So started pre Tate and not current enrollee on part of on going enrollment trends.

You keep straw manning this. The below was my reply to another poster.
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LSU's admissions committee is going to have some tough decisions this year and in the future.. do they admit the kid from Texas with $$$ or do they try to educated their own residents for free.



The out of state $$$ you speak of is more likely from being Pell grant eligible than from being rich.

Texans with money are going to Arkansas, Ole Miss, or even Oklahoma if they don’t stay in state not LSU.


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lol…what?

Where did Tilman Fertitta’s son graduate from?

You know, the one sitting court side with Lane Kiffin at a Houston Rockets game?

How about Jim Flores’ daughter…?

Swinggg and a miss.


You and some others have continued to bring up examples from the past instead of current and ongoing, and also have attempted to frame my comment in absolute terms when I clearly stated that the out of state $ coming in is more likely to be from Pell grants $ than the rich. I never stated 100% of all out of state $ was from Pell grant eligible enrollees. I then added my comment specifically about where Texans with money are sending kids over LSU when going out of state (also just included universities from bordering states assuming we aren’t talking about students getting into to MIT, Harvard, or similar since my original reply was to some talking about Texas students not getting into Texas or A&M).
Let me help you with time frame being discussed
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The present progressive tense is used for an ongoing action in the present. For example:
* John is baking a cake.
* They are painting the fence.
Even though it is a present tense, the present progressive tense can also be used to describe an activity that is going to happen in the future (especially for planned activities). For example:
* We are moving to New Zealand in the summer.
* The train is arriving in 2 minutes.

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A straw man is a form of argument and an informal fallacy of having the impression of refuting an argument, whereas the real subject of the argument was not addressed or refuted, but instead replaced with a false one. One who engages in this fallacy is said to be "attacking a straw man".

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*LSU is increasing grant eligible enrollees* “See! Texas kids with money don’t go to LSU!” “But seriously, who is Jim Flores?!”


More attacking a straw man from you.

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Because I wised up, and my kid got accepted to both Texas and A&M.


Nice, let’s hope he turns out smarter than his dad. Shouldn’t be difficult.


Now Ad hominem/personal attacks after your earlier straw man arguments changing time frame of what I originally answered.

Nice.
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And I’m sure you performed an audit on all of the current and incoming freshman’s family finances to support to your conclusion…right?

Or did you just pull it out of your arse and now you’re lashing out after finding yourself proven to be brutally inaccurate


For someone who claims to be a fan you don’t pay much attention to the reports LSU put out under Tate, or it’s highlighting of increasing grant eligible enrollees. There have been numerous discussions here on them.

But go ahead and add another laughing emoji.
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Why should anyone listen to the LSU fan who doesn’t know the guy whose name is on LSU’s MBA Program and the gates of Tiger Stadium?


Because I wised up, and my kid got accepted to both Texas and A&M.

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You have give 2 possible examples out of a thousands of out of enrollees recent enrollees, and then say swing and a miss???


You claimed, straight out of your arse, that kids from Texas with money don’t go to LSU.

I quickly provided a billionaire’s son and a multi-millionaire’s daughter who both proudly received their degrees from LSU.

So, yeah, you swung and missed.


And yet you don’t say when. If graduated they certainly are not in the fall 2025 freshman or a possibility for fall 2026 freshman classes.

Original comment I was reply to was about Texas sending money and kids to LSU now and in the future. My comment was also about ongoing action in the present.

Telling me about 2 people who started before is a straw man argument.

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The guy who claims Texas kids with money don’t go to LSU before admitting he doesn’t even know who Jim Flores is


Why should I know who Jim Flores is?

How does that matter unless his kid signed up for fall of 2025 class or this upcoming fall of 2026 class or ones at some point in the future?

You brought up current and future classes not past classes. You are changing your time frame to argue different eras, and now using that I don’t know who a person is.

Tate pushed more for poor out of state black kids than in state kids or out of state kids of alumni. New guys can’t change much for 2026 fall freshmen class, but hopefully they will for future classes.
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Texans with money are going to Arkansas, Ole Miss, or even Oklahoma if they don’t stay in state not LSU.
Disagree. My son was an out of state full pay, no grants or scholarships. I live in an affluent area of Houston and count more LSU plates/flags/yard signage than UT or A&M. Five kids from his kindergarten class 15 years ago ended up at LSU.

So not this upcoming class or even this past fall which is what is being talked about.

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Reports of a gas odor were made before the explosion at Abundant Life Church in Boonville, Oneida County, on Tuesday morning,


Hoping the casualties are just injuries not deaths. I don’t know the levels of activity on a Tuesday morning, but I am guessing this would have been much much worse if on a Sunday morning.
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Dallastigers is some sort of weird OU fan who pretends to be an LSU fan


You might want to check which version of a dallastigers profile you are talking about.


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Where did Tilman Fertitta’s son graduate from? You know, the one sitting court side with Lane Kiffin at a Houston Rockets game?


Don’t know. When did he graduate? We are talking about current situation.
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How about Jim Flores’ daughter…?
I don’t know who the is, but when did the daughter graduate?

You have give 2 possible examples out of a thousands of out of enrollees recent enrollees, and then say swing and a miss???


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University of Alabama model


What was the racial makeup of Alabama after its model was fully implemented?

LSU forked that model and has had built in entirely different goals.