LSU alums that live out of state and your kids want to go to LSU

Get them in the Tiger Band full scholarship.
I still don't understand why the band only gives scholarships to out of state students.

My wife and I graduated from LSU and live right across the border in MS…no fricking way I’m paying out of state for LSU.

I had saved money for him to go to either Ole Miss or State, but he’s got scholarship offers to Florida and Arkansas to be a placekicker.

Unless they play sports, I’d do everything I can to talk them out of it.

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They use TOPS as a crutch to not offer local kids

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not true - lsu pays the difference between tops and the rest of the fees/tuition with scholarships for my oldest

I paid in state rates as the child of a state college graduate while graduating HS and residing in Bartlett, TN. Dad’s degree from LaTech was good for any of us kids at any LA state college.

Sister transferred to NLU (now ULM) from University of Tennessee and paid in state too (pharmacy, after literal gender discrimination from a UT Dean:”already too many women in the system so you just won’t make the cut!” Didn’t even need the grade in question at UT for the NLU program.)

Mom actually graduated from Centenary as she was a year behind Dad and then had a semester off with each of my sisters. They met at LaTech from opposite sides of the state, Dad from next to the Mississippi River and Mom from next to the Sabine River. We could have gone to Centenary w/out out of state fees but preferred recognized programs for our majors.

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Got my 2nd degree w/out paying out of state fees/tuition by having the 1st degree even though I lived out of state the whole time between the two.

Yea, if coach Fountain is the special teams coach next year I think he’ll sign the LOI in December. Both Jake and Cam are kicking on Sundays…hard to argue with that success.

Not really. He’s an incredibly active kid. More than ready to kick in the SEC though. I want to make him a graphic of all the SEC stadiums and field goal distance records at each…see how many he can claim. LSU is only 55 yards (York) for example.

Arkansas waives out of state tuition for border state students with a 24+ ACT. It's unexpectedly on our radar. When I was actually at LSU, they waived 90% of out of state for children of alumni - that program has been eliminated.

I have a degree from LSU and live in Mississippi. Child is interested in LSU, but the only thing I can find for alumni is the Tiger Legacy Scholarship, which is a stackable $1,000.

Not bad but no where near out of state tuition. My oldest was a 32 ACT, and went to Georgia Tech on a nice women in engineering scholarship. This one is a 28. If she can get to a 29, it's full tuition at Ole Miss and State, but just looking at options.

Alabama and Tennessee schools aren't really budging on out of state tuition. Florida schools are interesting with the cheap in-state tuition and easy qualification for out of state waivers. Louisiana Tech system is waiving out of state. Not a lot of consistency in the SEC states.

Similar situation with Auburn. Despite both kids qualifying for the highest scholarship level, it was still cheaper by about $5k/year for them to go instate to either UTexas or Texas A&M, both of which are ranked above almost all of the other SEC schools in engineering. Off to ATM they went......

Only the academically weak schools and private schools will usually make up the difference in scholly money on merit, unless you check just the right diversity boxes.

Have to add that for anyone in Texas, you should look at the engineering academies that ATM does through several community colleges around the state. You get your first two years out of the way while saving around $4-5k per semester in tuition alone. The engineering classes are taught by ATM faculty. The transcripts say "Texas A&M" on them for xfer purposes.