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  UL - Eighty high school valedictorians will begin their first semester at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette this fall.

The group is the university’s largest class of valedictorians — for now, ULL President Joseph Savoie told a group of potential recruits visiting the campus Wednesday.

“We want you to help us beat that record when you come,” Savoie said.

The message was directed to nearly 200 high school seniors from across south Louisiana invited to the campus for a “backyard” barbecue and face time with college deans and administrators.

For many of the students, such as Dylan Creasman of Abbeville High, it was their first visit to the campus.

“I’m interested in architecture and pretty much set on UL,” Creasman said.

The proximity to his home, which is about a 30-minute drive away, is another selling factor, he said.

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By MARSHA SILLS
Advocate Acadiana bureau

[Boomer]

We only have 15k enrollment???? What is the deal at Tech and ULM???? I heard that their school population was up--but I can't see that we are going down and with the North La loss of population that their numbers are increasing---I think folkes are playing games with online students!!!!!!

[ULvictory]

There's no way that enrollment is only 15k. This past week on campus showed that.

[CajunNation]

http://ope.ed.gov/athletics/GetOneInstitutionData.aspx

Search Louisiana

McNeese State University Lake Charles LA 5,810 University of Louisiana at Monroe Monroe LA 5,849 Southern University and A & M College Baton Rouge LA 6,192 University of New Orleans New Orleans LA 6,462 Louisiana Tech University Ruston LA 6,672 Southeastern Louisiana University Hammond LA 10,983 University of Louisiana at Lafayette Lafayette LA 12,524 Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Baton Rouge LA 21,698

[CrappDaddy]

Not sure what Tech and ULM are claiming, but ULM has a little more than half the students UL has. I know because I went there for two years. Tech is probably the same size as UL if I had to guess, a whole bunch of Shreveport kids.

[NOCajun]

igeaux.mobi

[NOCajun]

Tech
has never had more than about 12,000 stude
nts that I've ever heard of and I thought we had beem flirting with 17,000 for the last couple years.

igeaux.mobi

[LATechDawgs]

I don't know WHERE you are getting these numbers from.

http://www.ulsystem.net/assets/docs/...ment_20081.pdf

From the UL System.

ULL 16,320 Down .15%
Tech 10,950 Up 3%
ULM 8,767 Up 2.5%

I believe these figures are only undergraduates. Could be wrong though.

[Big Buds]

I know SLCC has had a major pump in students over the summer. That could have something to do w/ it.

[LATechDawgs]

Also, your enrollment went down by 25 students.

I wouldn't call that statistically significant.

[LATechDawgs]

_ We only have 15k enrollment???? What is the deal at Tech and ULM???? I heard that their school population was up--but I can't see that we are going down and with the North La loss of population that their numbers are increasing---I think folkes are playing games with online students!!!!!! _

Also. You're pulling this north LA population loss from thin air. There's no such thing, and even if there was, you wouldn't know it until the census is completed in 2010. I've never heard this. Ever.

Ruston is growing, Shreveport is growing, and Monroe is relatively stable, if not dropping slightly. The Haynesville Shale, V-Vehicle plant, and other new industry that has recently come about in North LA will show the opposite trend.

[NOCajun]

_ I don't know WHERE you are getting these numbers from.

http://www.ulsystem.net/assets/docs/...ment_20081.pdf

From the UL System.

ULL 16,320 Down .15%
Tech 10,950 Up 3%
ULM 8,767 Up 2.5%

I believe these figures are only undergraduates. Could be wrong though. _

At least these figures look realistic compared to others I've seen recently!