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Posted on 6/8/17 at 2:59 pm to TailbackU
Posted on 6/8/17 at 3:02 pm to SouthOfSouth
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For instate students to LSU, unless you are a total idiot, you go to LSU for free (TOPS).
I looked up TOPS because I was curious. It looks like the highest award level would get you about $5500/year. I wouldn't think that would make it free, would it?
Posted on 6/8/17 at 3:09 pm to TailbackU
surprised by tennessee and south carolina.
Posted on 6/8/17 at 3:13 pm to Realistic Ag
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I looked up TOPS because I was curious. It looks like the highest award level would get you about $5500/year. I wouldn't think that would make it free, would it?
TOPS had certain tiers to it, depending on graduating GPA and ACT scores. The highest being included stipends to use towards books and whatnot. I wouldn't say TOPS made everything "free," but covered about 80 - 90% of tuition and fees at LSU. Depending on the in-state public institution ($$$), you may or may not have gotten tuition 100% covered. We still had food and lodging to factor in the growing expenses. Graduating debt free outside of a minor loan for an unpaid internship in NYC for the summer, it certainly was clutch. Grad school on the other hand? FML.
From my understanding, due to state budget issues, that 80-90% tuition coverage has shrunk and isn't as much as before.
The Georgia HOPE program looks nice as well, I had a few friends who had it throughout their UGA undergrad years.
This post was edited on 6/8/17 at 3:17 pm
Posted on 6/8/17 at 3:41 pm to TailbackU
If you do the rankings by % ROI en lieu of total $, Vanderbilt is actually ranked lower than every school in the SEC should you be an in state student.
Posted on 6/8/17 at 3:47 pm to LiveGold
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minor loan for an unpaid internship in NYC for the summer
You paid to go on an internship? There's a lot of places that will let you work for free in baton rouge.
Posted on 6/8/17 at 3:47 pm to LiveGold
I'd be curious to see where the likes of LSU and UGA would be without those scholarship programs, just to get a comparison. Obviously you can't take those out for the rankings, as they are a great benefit to the state and school, just curious.
Posted on 6/8/17 at 3:57 pm to Farmer1906
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65 seems low. Usually, we're in the top 10 on these lists.
The numbers are for both in state and out of state. The list also includes some really small-niche schools. Some of which I have never heard of.
Posted on 6/8/17 at 3:58 pm to TailbackU
Print the #272, #463 t-shirts
Posted on 6/8/17 at 3:58 pm to TailbackU
College in general is a terrible return on investment.
Posted on 6/8/17 at 4:00 pm to JuiceTerry
#502, #741 
Posted on 6/8/17 at 4:04 pm to CNB
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My favorite part is any fan of a school not named Vanderbilt acting like their University is any less shite than the rest.
Did you learn about ROI at SC?
Posted on 6/8/17 at 4:05 pm to texmariner84
Also Maritime colleges don't have a bunch of people getting liberal arts degrees to come out and make $30k a year and bring down their average.
Posted on 6/8/17 at 4:07 pm to CrimsonCrusade
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College in general is a terrible return on investment.
Especially at Alabama apparently
I was surprise at LSU, which I thought would be lower, and UGA which I thought would be higher. Kudos to you, LSU
One of the reasons I hate UGA...they think their shite doesn't stink and they are so busy "looking down" on everyone else when the joke is really on them.
Posted on 6/8/17 at 4:08 pm to texmariner84
KP '96 here! Nice to see us #1!
Posted on 6/8/17 at 4:14 pm to BowlJackson
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lol Bama is trash
LINK
The revised ranking tells us that there are schools—like B.Y.U. and Colorado—that provide a good legal education at a decent price, and that, by choosing not to include tuition as a variable, U.S. News has effectively penalized those schools for trying to provide value for the tuition dollar. But that’s a very subtle tweak. Let’s say that value for the dollar is something we really care about. And so what we want is a three-factor ranking, counting value for the dollar at forty per cent, L.S.A.T. scores at forty per cent of the total, and faculty publishing at twenty per cent. Look at how the top ten changes:
1. University of Chicago
2. Brigham Young University
3. Harvard University
4. Yale University
5. University of Texas
6. University of Virginia
7. University of Colorado
8. University of Alabama
9. Stanford University
10. University of Pennsylvania
LINK
Posted on 6/8/17 at 4:19 pm to oman
That's an article from 2011 and that list is obly in regards to their law school.
Yeah, Bama is still trash.
Yeah, Bama is still trash.
Posted on 6/8/17 at 4:19 pm to oman
That's an article from 2011 and that list is obly in regards to their law school.
Yeah, Bama is still trash.
Yeah, Bama is still trash.
Posted on 6/8/17 at 4:22 pm to BowlJackson
Give me a break dude. Why do you insist on talking like that. You live in this state bro. Trash???
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