My Chances of Getting in...NEED FEEDBACK PULEASEEE :)

Colleges and Universities A-Z Louisiana State University
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<p>I'm a junior in high school right now and I am an Asian male in Los Angeles </p>

<p>What are my chances with my statistics, I regretfully have slacked off quite a lot at school thus reflected in my low G.P.A. but hopefully my E.C. and SAT scores will balance it out and my personal statements are guaranteed to be unique and heartwarming.</p>

<p>I am applying as a minority and out of state student thus I am guessing my chances would be higher.</p>

<p>GPA:3.33
Weighted: 3.8
SAT I: 2200
SAT II BIO: 690
SAT II MATH II C: 750
SAT II LIT: 720
SAT II CHEM: 720</p>

<p>Once again I know my grades are average and mediocre at best but I have been to 8 schools in 3 different countries and I can speak 4 different languages and being Asian, I will be some what of a minority.</p>

<p>EC: Tennis Team and Tennis Captain, School Newspaper Staff, Hospital Volunteer, Dance Committee, Badminton, Visual Art 3D, Ceramics Award, National Merit, Senior Men and Women (Freshmen Orientation) Committee, Math Team</p>

<p>Feedback is appreciated</p>

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<p>You’re fine…you should qualify for the Golden Oaks Award (free tuition) since you’re an OOS.</p>

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<p>are you a current LSU student because if you are, i have a couple of questions to ask about campus life and the school in general. And for the golden oaks, does all out of state qualify or must you met specific qualifications?</p>

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<p>Not a current student…will be in the fall.</p>

<p>[Scholarship</a> Forms](<a href=“http://www.lsu.edu/financialaid/schlqualifications.htm]Scholarship”>http://www.lsu.edu/financialaid/schlqualifications.htm)</p>

<p>2200 SAT should leave you well over 1330…which qualifies you for golden oaks.</p>

<p>Use the search function for q’s on campus life and school in general.</p>

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<p>There are currently attending students who come here (myself included) so ask away (in this thread or start a new one).</p>

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<p>well i am also considering schools like cornell, dartmouth, NYU…etc, basically more prestigious schools than LSU but LSU has one of the majors i am interested in which is petroleum engineering and i was just wondering about LSU,</p>

<p>what is the campus like, like on a personal/opinionated point of view, not the generic BLAH BLAH on college review websites</p>

<p>what are the classes like? rough teacher to student ratio/teacher student relationship?</p>

<p>What is the social life like at LSU?</p>

<p>Frats and student government?</p>

<p>basically personal opinions about the schools are appreciated.
the pros and more importantly the CONS!
tell me why i should NOT go to LSU :slight_smile: mkay thanks!</p>

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<p>Hey Kevinyuan, I will be a freshman in the fall. I’ve been on LSU’s campus quite a bit, and I think I can help you with some of your questions.</p>

<p>First off, I’m pretty sure you’ll get into LSU. You have great test scores and you’re a miniority. ECs are good. Your GPA is pretty decent. LSU doesn’t require an essay on their application, so you’re pretty much set.</p>

<p>Now to answer 2 of your questions:

  1. What is the campus like? The campus is so beautiful. There are Live Oak Trees everywhere creating a southern home like atmosphere. Personally, I believe LSU is the prettiest campus in the south. People are generally friendly and ready to help. There’s much to do on campus. You can even watch a quidditch (I don’t know if I spelled that right) game. However, traffic can be quite annoying.</p>

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<li>What is the social life at LSU? The social life at LSU is pretty crazy especially during football season. You have people tailgating on LSU’s campus almost every Saturday, and the campus becomes even more crowded as usual. LSU has lots of parties and has been ranked often as being one of the Top Party Schools.<br></li>
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<p>Hope this helps.</p>

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<p>After I posted the above message, I saw you wanted some pros and cons of attending LSU. I know with your stats, you’ll probably want to apply to more prestigious uniforms than LSU. However, there are a few things that you should consider:</p>

<p>*Pros (I might be bias, but I’ve been pretty much an LSU fan my whole life of both the sports and the academics): </p>

<p>-You’ll receive a great scholarship to attend LSU. I wouldn’t be surprised if they didn’t even offer you a full-ride. Some of the other colleges that you’re interested in may not offer you as sweet as a deal as LSU will.
-The engineering school at LSU is actually quite prestigious. The engineering school has been ranked as being a really good school. They also offer a lot of scholarships. In plus, petroleum engineering is HUGE in Louisiana. After graduation, you should have a pretty easy time finding a job. LA also is pretty economically stable, so you wouldn’t have to worry about having your job cut or anything.<br>
-The south is amazing. It’s so pretty, and the social scene is exciting at times. </p>

<p>Cons:
-You lose out on attending a top university.</p>

<p>I would think of more cons, but I’m short on time. I’ll post back later.</p>

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<p>I don’t want to sound bias, but I really can’t think of any other cons. If there was somebody who was an engineer major at LSU on CC, they might be more of assistance.</p>

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<p>It would be a crapshoot at all the other universities and as mentioned you would get free tuition at LSU. Room and board is relatively low compared to most universities, and probably half of that at NYU or Columbia. It’s a great deal for students in your boat who have very solid, but not perfect numbers.</p>

<p>The PE program is very good. It is probably the most prestigious undergrad program LSU offers. For the most part I would recommend attending a top school if a bachelor’s was all you were looking for and no graduate study, and a school like LSU if you were looking for grad study like I am, but PE is an exception to that rule. Oil companies recruit heavily in the field.</p>

<p>PE is something you have to have a passion for. It can bore some people out of their mind. You seem to be in this for the right reasons though, not some people who are only looking for easy money.</p>

<p>TB made some good points. There are a lot of international students, many who I made friends with. You will get some diverse perspective.</p>

<p>That said the majority are in-staters. At times if you are not a religious Christian you can feel out of place. Also there are a lot of students not interested in expanding outside their high school friends or those they meet through the friends they have already. Also Greek Life can get a bit annoying at times for someone who is not into that kind of thing as sometimes people in Greek Life feel entitled.</p>

<p>Another con is that many of the students are not serious about their studies. You deal with a lot of people on their laptops on Facebook during class and low attendence. A lot of these people never sniff graduation, but it can be frustrating at times for a serious student like me and you.</p>

<p>Campus dining is not optimal. The dining halls were not open on the weekends last year (this may change, not sure) and it sometimes feels catered towards in-staters rather than out of staters.</p>

<p>A lot of the social life is off campus, at bars about 10-15 minutes away. If you don’t have transport and don’t know a lot of people at first, you can feel left out.</p>

<p>If you’re not into drinking, there’s a ton of it around so it might not be optimal at times.</p>

<p>Campus is dead on the weekends when there is no football games. It’s like a ghost town. And when there is a game, you can hardly walk.</p>

<p>At times you feel like you’re just a number and insignificant at the university. That said if you can form relationships with faculty in your department, it can make the school seem much smaller.</p>

<p>There are also a lot of pros, but I thought I would give you some of the negatives as well.</p>

<p>I just finished up my freshman year… </p>

<p>LSU does not care about personal statements and all that. It’s 98% numbers based unless it is a borderline case. Your numbers will cruise you into the school. They gave me a top 10 scholarship without an essay or a formal interview to give you an idea of how it’s all numbers like.</p>

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<p>as of right now, according to LSUguy and ret541’s comments, i feel relatively reassured but i still have a couple of questions. </p>

<p>umm for classes, are grades curved because like you said, if most of the people do not take education seroiusly, will it be really easy for me to get a high gpa and hopefully get into stanford’s masters or MIT’s masters. </p>

<p>alsoo, what do you mean by the top 10 scholarship, if you could elaborate a bit on that, it would be great. Also, i am asian and i realize LSU is mainly white and i fear i could face racism at lsu. is that me being paranoid or is it actaully a serious issue</p>

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<p>to echo earlier sentiments, it’s completely a numbers game. i additionally recommend that you take the ACT, which is a pretty different test from the SAT, so your results may be quite different. lsu will take either/both and consider the higher.</p>

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<p>MIT masters and Stanford masters will not be “easy” to get in no matter where your undergrad is. Every masters program is looking for diversity, so 100% of their incoming grad. school class is not of top 10 schools. If you do well at LSU, and do well on GRE, you should have just as good of a chance as anyone else - so the answer to your question is no, having an LSU degree won’t hinder your chances at a top grad. school, but they won’t help as much as Harvard.</p>

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<p>I think people above have answered or provided some insight into LSU. However, I wanted to give my input into some of things that LSUGuy mentioned.</p>

<p>1.) LSU dining: While the dining situation at LSU may not seem that great, I am confident that LSU has the best dining services within 400 miles of campus, and is improving (with the opening of 459 recently and the opening of the newly renovated pentagon dining to come). While it pales into comparison to the “elite eating campuses” (VT for example, which is like heaven), there’s some reason to it. Due to the way that LSU operates and is budgeted, services, such as Dining, Housing, and few others, receive no funding from the state of Louisiana or from LSU. They are auxiliary services and most operate entirely as a separate business entity.</p>

<p>This means that while schools like VT can possibly operate its dining services at a loss in order to enhance the student eating experience, LSU cannot. So, this should give insight into why LSU, 1.) does not have open dining halls on the weekends 2.) has crappy hours (i.e. the dining halls don’t stay open late enough). They can raise the prices of the meal plans in order to provide these additional hours. But I know they have consider these options (as I have been in Q&A sessions with those who run these services). But it’s either they’ll lose customers if they raise prices or there aren’t enough people who would utilize the extra hours and/or weekend hours for the cost that it takes to keep them open.</p>

<p>2.) I think you’ll find in your upper level classes (3000-4000), there will be a greater number of people who attend or are engaged in class. At least that’s the case in my upper level classes. But truth be told, I’m no slacker, but I’ve found my 1000 and many of my 2000 level classes to be a breeze and for a lack of anything better to do, I’ll browse forums or websites while jotting down notes.</p>

<p>And that’s about it. You’re spot on about it being a mostly ghost town on non-game days and having transport is nearly essential in a spread out town like Baton Rouge.</p>

<p>As far as racism, I wouldn’t doubt that you would encounter some. But I think you can meet the right people and get along just fine. I know that my closest friends at LSU are from different ethnic backgrounds (Arabic, Iranian/Persian, Asian(Korean, mostly).</p>

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<p>Yes bleaux is correct about upper level classes having more engaged students. I should have mentioned that. It’s the bigger, general ed courses that seem to have disengaged student.</p>

<p>Interesting points about LSU Dining. I was not aware.</p>

<p>I have a friend from an Asian country who made friends with just about everyone, so racism doesn’t seem to be an issue.</p>

<p>It might be easier to get a higher GPA than at some other schools, and there are some classes you have to be a moron not to (SOCL 2001 for example), but other classes can be difficult and only about 15% of students get A’s.</p>

<p>The Top 10 scholarship I referred to was the Chancellor’s Alumni Scholarship. This talks about all the ones they offer [Scholarship</a> Forms](<a href=“http://www.lsu.edu/financialaid/schlqualifications.htm]Scholarship”>http://www.lsu.edu/financialaid/schlqualifications.htm)</p>

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<p>what do you guys think about the engineering department? how are the professors? is the engineering department have a sink or swim or helpful mentality, specifically the PE department. I’m deciding between UL and LSU.</p>

<p>thanks guys</p>

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<p>UL Lafayette is gaining popularity. Many of our top students are going there this year to study computer engineering, which they have an excellent program in. It is not as big a campus, and not as well known nationally, but the town of Lafayette is great. The food is out of this world. Must go to Pat’s.</p>