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Contacts
Website: http://www.medschool.lsuhsc.edu/
Phone: (504) 568-6262
Admissions e-mail: ms-admissions@lsuhsc.edu
Address: LSU School of Medicine in New Orleans
Student Admissions
1901 Perdido Street
Box P3-4
New Orleans, LA 70112
Program Information
- Class start date: August 2018
Curriculum
- Doctor of Medicine (M.D.)
- 4 years in length
- Joint programs are available. Descriptions can be found here
Admission statistics
- Total number of applicants from Louisiana in 2016: 757
- Estimated number of new entrants: 200
- International students are not eligible to apply
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Admissions Requirements
Course and Degree Requirements
- Degree: Bachelor's Degree
- Required Courses
- Biology (8 semester hours, with lab)
- General/Inorganic Chemistry (8 semester hours, with lab)
- Organic Chemistry (8 semester hours, with lab)
- Biochemistry (3 semester hours, lab not required)
- Physics (8 semester hours, with lab)
- English (6 semester hours, both spoken and written English)
- Statistics (3 semester hours)
- Recommended Courses
- biochemistry (strongly recommended)
- cell biology
- comparative vertebrate anatomy
- computer sciences
- embryology (developmental biology)
- histology
- mathematics
- microbiology
- molecular genetics
- physiology
- statistics (epidemiology)
- economics
- English
- ethics
- foreign languages
- history
- philosophy
- psychology
- public speaking
- sociology
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GPA
- Minimum grade/GPA: all coursework completed at a grade-level of C
- Average grade/GPA of admitted applicants in 2016: 3.7
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MCAT
- Average score in 2016: 30
- The MCAT must be taken no later than September 2017 to qualify for this application cycle. Scores must be from the most current version of the MCAT examination.
- Oldest MCAT Scores considered: April 2015
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Supporting Documents
- AMCAS application
- Secondary application: LSU Secondary Application to School of Medicine
- This will be provided after submitting the AMCAS application
- Secondary application fee: $50
- Letters of Recommendation: one from the school's pre-professional/pre-med advisory committee, or three from professors/teachers who have taught the applicant in didactic classes in science and math
- Cannot be from one-hour lab courses or research instructors
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Evaluation criteria
- To evaluate all applicants in three major areas: humanitarian qualities, overall excellence, and diversity of experience. For more information, click here
Interview
- Interview invitations will be sent out from September 2016 on a rolling basis
- Type of interview: traditional
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Timeline 2017-2018
- June 1, 2017: AMCAS application becomes available online
- Nov 30, 2017: Deadline to submit AMCAS
- Jan 15, 2018: Deadline for secondary applications
- Sept 18, 2017: Interviews begin
- Oct 15, 2017: First acceptance notice
- Nov 1, 2017: MD/PhD AMCAS Deadline
- Dec 15, 2017: MD/PhD Secondary Application
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Tuition 2016-2017
- Total Student Fee (Resident)- $32,936.95
- Total Student Fee (non-Resident)- $61,114.29
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