<p>I'm from Michigan but have spent a lot of time in Georgia and Louisiana throughout my life because I have relatives who love here. I love the south and am planning on attending college down here. Even though lsu doesn't have as impressive of an academic reputation as some of the other schools I'm looking at, I'm very interested in their political communication major and am willing to look past the rep because of it. I want to rush and everything so I'm just wondering if someone can be brutally honest about whether there's a stigma against northern students here.</p>
<p>No.
Also, be sure your plan to attend college in the South isn’t based on misguided appeal. Colleges everywhere provide wonderful experiences.
In the same vein, employers don’t look at political communication graduates and think to themselves “well, this one went to LSU, so I’m not going to hire them.”</p>
<p>LSU has approximately 26,000 students and about 25% of them are imports from around the country and the world. You’ll fit right in and find that we Southerners are generally very welcoming. LSU has an excellent rep in the southern states and is a familiar name on the national stage because of the football team and the vast amount of research done on campus. LSU doesn’t pretend to be Ivy League but it works very hard to give it’s students an inclusive and world-wide view of the world, encouraging study abroad in almost every major, providing lots of help with internships and such.</p>