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re: LSU NOLA Med School Entrance Requirements
Posted on 3/7/25 at 12:40 pm to auwaterfowler
Posted on 3/7/25 at 12:40 pm to auwaterfowler
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My son (white, born as my son)
WTF is this nonsense.
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Posted on 3/7/25 at 12:42 pm to IAHTiger
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I have a nephew who made a 518 on MCAT and can't get into NOLA.
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I'm no expert on MCAT but that score is over 95th percentile what I can see.
I took the older MCAT before they changed it but I do know that a 518 should get you into almost any med school unless you otherwise are an absolute trainwreck personally and/or served time for murder.
I dont know his other CV stuff but this is hard to understand if he is a LA resident.
Sketchy
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4.25 GPA at LSU in Biochemistry. All A+... Every class thru last Fall.
Encourage him to go somewhere else, there will be plenty who would accept him (IN the US) with those grades/MCAT. Disuade him from putting his herat into NOLA - Its just not THAT great to be worth waiting a year.
Plus, the benefit of going somehwere else is the statistics on getting shot going to class, losing water/power, or being robbed are exponentially lower than NOLA
This post was edited on 3/7/25 at 12:47 pm
Posted on 3/7/25 at 12:46 pm to jimmy the leg
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WTF is this nonsense.
I was making a joke that he is a white male, and was born as a male, not just identifying as or transitioning to being a male.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 12:48 pm to KiwiHead
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A certain amount of politics/ nepotism is existential especially for the Med School in NOLA....despite protestations otherwise.
My scores were competitive for 1/2 the pool, but I have no doubt Poppa 19's old buddy Rolfe Mccollister (Sr) influence got me in... this was 1995, tho.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 1:04 pm to 19
My BIL father was doc who was buddies with the head of the Pathology Dept at LSU med and his great uncle was on staff at LSU Dental as a key admins....so when it looked like his brother might be wait listed.....they pulled out the stops. It worked, he was accepted in April of 1992
Posted on 3/7/25 at 1:08 pm to schwartzy
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The MCAT is important but there’s more to the application than that. The interview is really important too
Exactly. Test scores and grades get you the interview. The interview gets you accepted.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 1:29 pm to lsursb
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According to AAMC...the medical school in NOLA got 3891 applications, interviewed 533 and took 195 students in the last class.
No way! Someone just told me the interview is a formality!
Posted on 3/7/25 at 1:30 pm to NC_Tigah
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Yeah. It changed about 10yrs ago.
Ahh I miss the good ol days when it was just out of 45. Nice and simple.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 1:33 pm to LaLadyinTx
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Exactly. Test scores and grades get you the interview. The interview gets you accepted.
100% correct. Same thing for residency. Your stats on paper get you in the door. But after the interview process, we never really talked about step scores, GPA, research, etc it was just about how well they interviewed and if you would kill yourself if you had to take 24 hr call with them
Posted on 3/7/25 at 3:01 pm to IAHTiger
Something vaguely similar happened to me with LSU Law (more than a decade ago now). Didn't get in with good undergrad grades and a good LSAT. I ended up going to Georgetown Law and came back to LA with many great offers.
For law schools, I believe there's a component of school rankings that include the percentage of offered kids that actually attend. Meaning a school gets a bump if the kids that applied there actually end up going. I believe there's also a ranking metric that includes the quality of applicants that they reject.
So, they may have assumed with those scores if they offered him, he wouldn't have attended. In which case, denying gives them a "double-bump."
I always chosen to believe that's what happened to me :)
For law schools, I believe there's a component of school rankings that include the percentage of offered kids that actually attend. Meaning a school gets a bump if the kids that applied there actually end up going. I believe there's also a ranking metric that includes the quality of applicants that they reject.
So, they may have assumed with those scores if they offered him, he wouldn't have attended. In which case, denying gives them a "double-bump."
I always chosen to believe that's what happened to me :)
Posted on 3/7/25 at 3:04 pm to IAHTiger
Has he traveled to a third world country to do volunteer work?
Posted on 3/7/25 at 3:26 pm to auwaterfowler
quote:The volunteerism has gotten absurd. People are no longer doing it because they care, they're doing it to get into these grad schools, Medical, Dental, Law, etc.
but he had volunteered at multiple camps for kids with medical issues every year since high school, is an Eagle Scout (this does still open doors for you), did a full summer of high level research as an undergrad which got published in a medical journal,
I know several people who didn't do any volunteer work or significant research who have been excellent doctors for decades now.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 4:22 pm to IAHTiger
LSUHSC Shreveport exists to take the White kids and politically incorrect screwed over by LSUHSC New Orleans
Posted on 3/7/25 at 4:26 pm to LaLadyinTx
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Exactly. Test scores and grades get you the interview. The interview gets you accepted.
which is horse shite because the interview evaluation is subjective, so they can take whoever they want.
That is why rich connected white people support DEI. They know their connections can get Junior in and by fricking over other white people they make sure that the people doing the picking can use whatever criteria they want, adding bonus if the rich white people can virtue signal.
I never missed out on anything I wanted to do, so that is an inimpeded opinion.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 4:39 pm to RohanGonzales
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Posted on 3/7/25 at 4:48 pm to IAHTiger
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I have a nephew who made a 518 on MCAT and can't get into NOLA. I'm no expert on MCAT but that score is over 95th percentile what I can see.
I know the pain. I’m 20 years removed from the process at this point. But I did LSU engineering and had great GPA and a really good old MCAT score. I was devastated when I got rejection letter and questioned my life and what I’d do next.
I decided to give it one more year. I set interviews with the admission committee that summer before applying again to show my commitment and asking what I can do to better my chances. Basically showing them that I really wanted it. And I also applied to like 30-40 programs instead of just 4.
But the main thing that I think sealed it for me was my ER work experience as a scribe for 2 years. Back then, OLOL scribe program was a pipeline for future med students. My interviews 2nd year applying were all basically just discussing my work experience, and I had volunteered at PMAC after Katrina.
Good luck to your nephew. Make sure he gets some real work experience. That’ll make the difference. They’re testing him (which sucks). Feels like a “wasted” year, but it turned out to be one of best years of my life before starting.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 4:55 pm to OchoDedos
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LSUHSC Shreveport exists to take the White kids and politically incorrect screwed over by LSUHSC New Orleans
Then why does New Orleans beat Shreveport in every metric for incoming matriculants?
Posted on 3/7/25 at 5:00 pm to MrSpock
New Orleans is most people’s first choice over Shreveport, if I’m being honest. Do you want to live in a Super Bowl city or Shreveport? Both have crime, but I’d argue Shreveport’s crime is worse without the charm and good food.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 5:01 pm to IAHTiger
I didn’t get in to LSU NOLA with similar (515, 3.98 GPA) 5 years ago.
During the interview, I was never once asked why I wanted to be a physician. Instead, I was asked what “culture competency meant to me” and “how I have actively tried to reduce systemic racism” and other things of that nature.
My interview in Shreveport was nothing like that.
Ended up getting accepted into Shreveport the Friday following my interview. Didn’t even make the waitlist for NOLA.
Pissed me off pretty bad and went through medical school with a chip on my shoulder. Motivated me to study harder and do better on boards. Don’t regret how it played out at all.
Shreveport has similar home programs (in terms of residency) to NOLA. Shreveport will likely take him and he’ll be okay.
During the interview, I was never once asked why I wanted to be a physician. Instead, I was asked what “culture competency meant to me” and “how I have actively tried to reduce systemic racism” and other things of that nature.
My interview in Shreveport was nothing like that.
Ended up getting accepted into Shreveport the Friday following my interview. Didn’t even make the waitlist for NOLA.
Pissed me off pretty bad and went through medical school with a chip on my shoulder. Motivated me to study harder and do better on boards. Don’t regret how it played out at all.
Shreveport has similar home programs (in terms of residency) to NOLA. Shreveport will likely take him and he’ll be okay.
Posted on 3/7/25 at 5:16 pm to schwartzy
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It’s important to avoid landmines in the interview, but mainly not having good motives for medicine or lacking passion can tank your application. Medical school requires so much of your time and dedication that if they don’t sense it’s what you really want, they won’t take you no matter your MCAT score. MCAT scores can secure interviews and push you over the hump to acceptance, but they have to like what they hear too. No idea what he said or didn’t say, but if you don’t get in with a 518, he may have to ask himself how he answered some of their questions or what aura he put off
The subjective analysis is all fine and good as long as it applies to everyone and it is not just a convenient way to get to the diversity mix they want. If someone gets in ahead of him with a 500 score is one thing, but someone with a 427 who gives the PC ansers and/ or checks the boxes is another thing.
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