The merit $$ email came in December. Good luck to your student!
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Today I received an email from LSU (Iâm the parent) stating that LSU received over 30,000 applications and currently reviewing my D application. Decisions will be made by mid April. An hour later my daughter texted me from school saying she was accepted into the architecture program. Super excited. Took so long since she applied early fall. I forgot the date ? September?
OOS
SAT 1240 at the time of application but sent updated score of 1280 in December.
GPA 3.97 W / 3.7 UW honors classes and 5 AP
Very active in school and outside school Student Government, honor roll, varsity sports all 4 years
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I couldnât decide what quick emoji to put on your post so I decided to celebrate your Dâs acceptance into the architecture program, something she should be very proud of.
This, however:
I am gobsmacked. Sending out decisions by mid-April when May 1 is the deadline to send in enrollment deposits? I donât know whether it is a governmental stinginess issue (i.e. poor funding from the state to hire additional people to help review the applications) or if it is the ineptitude of the admissions office, but it is a very bad look for the school.
This is why LSU is not more popular in terms of people choosing to enroll. The school takes too darn long to make a decision and people lose interest and get aggravated. I donât have a kid who applied or is getting ready to apply, but even I am aggravated on the applicantsâ behalf and on behalf of Louisiana citizens.
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We are waiting as well. Since Sept. since then our child has received admission officers from a few other schools including Alabama which he is apt to accept. It took bama ten days to accept him once his application was deemed complete. I donât think lsu is appreciably better than Alabama if at all. So I canât figure out their issue. Even if he is admitted by them, even by Feb imo itâs too late for a school that claims to operate on a rolling basis. It doesnât speak well for the administration in general. Itâs too bad.
In the same boat. Applied in August and still no response from the school, or my admissions counselor, who I emailed back in November. I already committed to Arizona on scholarship. Unfortunate it took so long, but speaks volumes about the school and its admissions process.
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Thank you!! Sheâs excited!! I agree with you. Taking way too long especially for applicants who applied early. My daughter applied in the fall early (donât remember the date) and it took this long. Many of my Dâs friends already know where they are going so to me LSU is taking way too long to review applications.
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Meantime my daughter has received offers from other schools that she applied to around the same time as LSU. Even one that she applied to in December came back in a week with an offer with a presidential scholarship!! We are still waiting on a few other colleges that we will find out next week and then sheâll make her decision once we have all the offers. There is no way she would have waited until April for a decision!!
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Notified tonight that daughter was accepted. Been waiting since Oct. Sharing for those who are still waiting. Looks like they may finally be working thru the backlog. Good luck to those who are still waiting.
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You received notification Saturday evening?
Yes
Interesting. Email or just on the portal?
Email saying a decision has been made check your portal.
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Still nothing here, 
Praying u will hear something soon.
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Thanks. He is probably going elsewhere at this point but it would be nice to know either way.
We havenât received any merit notification, and I am actually shocked, as she has received merit everywhere else she has applied. We just emailed her admissions counselor to find out, as she was accepted in November. LSU wonât be an option at all with no merit since we are OOS.
My OOS daughter just got her acceptance notification last night. She applied in August! LSU is the last school to give her a decisionâŠ.
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I think the influx of applications is not overwhelming LSUâs review process. Itâs also wreaking havoc on their yield planning. So many well qualified students are applying to > 20 schools that done schools know (presume?) the applicants are not serious so I think some of those applications and/or merit $$$ is held back. Itâs not necessarily right but thatâs my working theory. My son was a Fall 2024 freshman so we did this song & dance a year ago.
I have been in this chat since September when my daughter applied, and we still have not heard anything. The good news is, is that the anxiety and stress went away. She has been accepted to other schools and we are just going to give it until March 1st and then just go elsewhere. Would have been easier to just deny her early than to wait this long.
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It makes zero sense. My child has now been accepted into a bunch of other schools. Some of them are considered âbetterâ, others more or less the same. If their standards are that much higher no one is aware of that. And if thatâs the case just deny admission! And if itâs theyâre overwhelmed bring on more admissions staff and or let applicants know youâre running behind. Otherwise it just really turns off families to the school bc if admissions is representative of the university as a whole, who is going to want to send their child to a school where admissions canât even get their act together. It doesnât bode well for the school in general. Oh well!