LSU and Grad School...

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<p>I am an in-state Louisiana resident who hopefully will qualify for the highest TOPS awards. </p>

<p>I am interested in International/Global Relations/Studies and Spanish. I hope to go to Grad school after college, so honestly going to LSU without fear of debt is pretty cool.</p>

<p>Will some of your top ranked grad schools (Georgetown etc) look down on me for graduating from LSU, even if I get good grades and become active in the student body etc.</p>

<p>Also how good is the liberal arts program at LSU.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>In short, no, and anyone who tells you otherwise is using scare tactics to try and get you to pay more to go their school.</p>

<p>Check out this that I just saw today.</p>

<p>[2009</a> Highlights | LSU Well Represented on the USA Today All-USA College Academic Team](<a href=“http://www.lsu.edu/highlights/2009/04/usatoday_academic.shtml]2009”>http://www.lsu.edu/highlights/2009/04/usatoday_academic.shtml)</p>

<p>The top students at LSU are competitive with any other school in the country. A lot of people go here because of the price and grad schools understand that. </p>

<p>Is the quality of education here equal to other schools? That’s debatable. I say it’s close and the reason the school is lagging is because of a lack of seriousness in the student body. That said those who work hard are in a great situation.</p>

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<p>Undergraduate education is somewhat of a wash anyway. You generally learn the same material. That’s coming from professors I’ve talked to who have taught at UNC and at Cal (both considered high quality academic schools) and teach the same material here and from professors who attended Yale, MIT, and Cornell who currently teach here. I was bored one day and watched one of MIT’s intro biology lectures on youtube (I’m a biology junior now). Personally, I thought the material was basically the same and I thought the teacher was terrible at giving the lecture (at least compared to mine).</p>

<p>A majority of the rankings is based on peer reviews (which hinge a lot on how good your graduate schools are [LSU’s aren’t that great]), endowment funds, and a few other things. </p>

<p>That being said, I know one of the kids in the article LSUguy posted. He’s worked hard during his college years (many organizations, founded some, lots of research, great grades, etc.) and when you work that hard it’s hard for great schools to turn you down. So as long as you put forth effort you should be able to go where you want to go.</p>