2011-2012 LSU - New Orleans Application Thread

[S6MD]

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Accepted!

 

[Member504]

Accepted!!!

 

[rainbootscoots]

Congrats to all the new acceptances!! Hopefully my turn's coming!

 

[Brees on Tap]

Of all the days for the mailman to not deliver the mail..........😡😡😡😡😡😡😡😡:

 

[blackedout]

Congrats to all who got in that's awesome!

I didn't get a letter, and I live in the metro area. I'm thinking that may be a bad sign...

 

[Brees on Tap]

Congrats to all who got in that's awesome!

I didn't get a letter, and I live in the metro area. I'm thinking that may be a bad sign...

I wouldnt be concerned. Snail mail can be very fickle. A person in Nome, Alaska may get a letter from a school across the block from you before you do. You never know. I dont think the letters are sent out in the order of Acceptance/waitlist/rejection.

In my case, my entire block has not received their mail as of 8:00PM. I've lost no hope just want my damn mail.😡

 

[LSUNOLA]

I wouldnt be concerned. Snail mail can be very fickle. A person in Nome, Alaska may get a letter from a school across the block from you before you do. You never know. I dont think the letters are sent out in the order of Acceptance/waitlist/rejection.

In my case, my entire block has not received their mail as of 8:00PM. I've lost no hope just want my damn mail.😡

From my experience with LSU-NO (3rd time around with a fiancee who is an L1), they send acceptances on Tuesdays and then "No Further Action"/Rejection letters on Wednesday or Thursdays...BUT DON'T FRET!!! Obviously the mail may take an extra day or two depending on where you live/how lazy your mailman may be. AND right now, especially this early in the game, the majority of people will get NFA letters so that the admissions commitee can evaluate the applicant further before they give you the "Golden Ticket". They tend to hold on to spots as long as possible, making the waiting game for all of us applicants ever so painful. GOOD LUCK! Rejections this early are very rare.👍

 

[metallica81788]

Congrats to all those who were accepted!

Hope to see you here next year.

 

[Brees on Tap]

From my experience with LSU-NO (3rd time around with a fiancee who is an L1), they send acceptances on Tuesdays and then "No Further Action"/Rejection letters on Wednesday or Thursdays...BUT DON'T FRET!!! Obviously the mail may take an extra day or two depending on where you live/how lazy your mailman may be. AND right now, especially this early in the game, the majority of people will get NFA letters so that the admissions commitee can evaluate the applicant further before they give you the "Golden Ticket". They tend to hold on to spots as long as possible, making the waiting game for all of us applicants ever so painful. GOOD LUCK! Rejections this early are very rare.👍

Yea, I'm not worrying just yet. No one on my street has gotten mail so hopefully your insight doesnt apply to my case.👍

Best of luck to everyone

 

[bambam02]

Sooo today when I looked in my mailbox I got a big ole 👍

I am very 😀 today!!

Had 2 copies of my acceptance letter, and a copy of the Hippocratic oath on a nice hologram card.

33Q, 3.5

 

[Member1986]

Congrats to all those accepted. I can only imagine what you're feeling right now.

Would it be possible for those who have got accepted/rejected/NFA to post their GPA and MCAT?

If you'd rather not share this info, I understand, but it would be a big help for those of us waiting for letters and/or interview invites.

Thank you.

 

[scarshapedstar]

Congrats everyone! It's a marvelous sort of dizziness when you see the golden ticket, innit? 😀

 

[S6MD]

Congrats to all those accepted. I can only imagine what you're feeling right now.

Would it be possible for those who have got accepted/rejected/NFA to post their GPA and MCAT?

If you'd rather not share this info, I understand, but it would be a big help for those of us waiting for letters and/or interview invites.

Thank you.

accepted
3.94 GPA
32 MCAT

g'luck!

 

[Missorleans]

accepted! My shreveport interview was so much less stressful after mom called and opened the letter over the phone.

3.83
34Q

 

[S6MD]

accepted! My shreveport interview was so much less stressful after mom called and opened the letter over the phone.

is NOLA your #1?

 

[Missorleans]

I'm finding it really hard to rank the places I've interviewed. There's only been one that I decided right after the interview day that I would not go there. They all have their good aspects, and some have big downsides (UAB's 50k OOS tuition).
I could see myself at LSU-NO, the campus is very modern and has a warm feeling to it. The class size isn't huge like texas schools, and is larger than Shreveport. New Orleans is great, but for cost of living and the ease of living off campus, shreveport beats it. I can't remember what kind of grading system LSU-NO uses, my friend who interviewed there more recently than me tells me its the same as shreveport.
I might get accepted somewhere outside LA
It's gonna be impossible to decide. Might have to come down to something objective like which is cheaper.

 

[Freakfarm0]

I'm finding it really hard to rank the places I've interviewed. There's only been one that I decided right after the interview day that I would not go there. They all have their good aspects, and some have big downsides (UAB's 50k OOS tuition).
I could see myself at LSU-NO, the campus is very modern and has a warm feeling to it. The class size isn't huge like texas schools, and is larger than Shreveport. New Orleans is great, but for cost of living and the ease of living off campus, shreveport beats it. I can't remember what kind of grading system LSU-NO uses, my friend who interviewed there more recently than me tells me its the same as shreveport.
I might get accepted somewhere outside LA
It's gonna be impossible to decide. Might have to come down to something objective like which is cheaper.

We're Honors - High Pass - Pass - Fail (LSU-NO, that is).

 

[Dr McSexy]

I New Orleans is great, but for cost of living and the ease of living off campus, shreveport beats it.
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Cost of living is true (I'm from North LA and it's definitely cheaper). But I dunno, I think off-campus living in NOLA is very easy and convenient from multiple areas of the city (uptown, lakeview, metairie).

Also, you have to think about 3rd and 4th year as well because you won't be spending all your time in Shreveport nor NOLA. NO does rotations in BR and Lafayette as well. Shreveport does them in Monroe and Alexandria(I think on this one) as well.

 

[Missorleans]

We're Honors - High Pass - Pass - Fail (LSU-NO, that is).

ah ha! that's what I thought. well that's something else to set them apart. LSU-S uses the 10 point scale, and ranks based on actual average, which I would think would indulge the gunner crowd, but they insist they have none (as does every school I've interviewed at).

 

[StephanieZ]

Congrats on everyone who got acceptances! I wanted to get some feedback. I just sent in my secondaries (I know, I know...). Since I missed the first batch of acceptance/rejection decisions, what can I expect now? If I'm invited to interview, about when should I expect this to happen? Is there another block of time where during which they evaluate all the late applicants and give notice by a certain date, or do I just have to bite my nails until March? Any bit of info helps, thanks!

 

[egreen3]

Congrats on everyone who got acceptances! I wanted to get some feedback. I just sent in my secondaries (I know, I know...). Since I missed the first batch of acceptance/rejection decisions, what can I expect now? If I'm invited to interview, about when should I expect this to happen? Is there another block of time where during which they evaluate all the late applicants and give notice by a certain date, or do I just have to bite my nails until March? Any bit of info helps, thanks!

there's only about 6 or 7 interviewees per interview day, and they interview MTW (not necessarily every week, but pretty frequently). from what eubanks was saying at my interview, my impression was that it was a pretty steady flow of interviews from september --> february/march. so, no big cluster of late applicants late in the game. and they send out letters every time the committee meets, which I believe is about once every two weeks. someone correct me if I'm wrong on some of this. thats all i got!

 

[StephanieZ]

there's only about 6 or 7 interviewees per interview day, and they interview MTW (not necessarily every week, but pretty frequently). from what eubanks was saying at my interview, my impression was that it was a pretty steady flow of interviews from september --> february/march. so, no big cluster of late applicants late in the game. and they send out letters every time the committee meets, which I believe is about once every two weeks. someone correct me if I'm wrong on some of this. thats all i got!

Thanks for taking the time to reply! I'll be holding my breath until March I guess! One more question, though. If I never get invited to interview, am I still going to get a letter/email saying I'm rejected, or do I just have to make that assumption for myself if spring rolls around next year and they haven't sent me anything?

 

[egreen3]

Thanks for taking the time to reply! I'll be holding my breath until March I guess! One more question, though. If I never get invited to interview, am I still going to get a letter/email saying I'm rejected, or do I just have to make that assumption for myself if spring rolls around next year and they haven't sent me anything?

you'll get a rejection letter. everyone gets a "letter of final action" i.e. the committees final decision on you. but you'll get an interview

 

[nmed20]

We're Honors - High Pass - Pass - Fail (LSU-NO, that is).

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that just another way of saying A - B - C - Fail?? Isn't that how residency programs would interpret it?

 

[StephanieZ]

you'll get a rejection letter. everyone gets a "letter of final action" i.e. the committees final decision on you. but you'll get an interview

Thanks a bunch, I needed that! 🙂

 

[Dagni]

Waitlisted..... 🙁

 

[nmed20]

Waitlisted..... 🙁

Sorry to hear that! But there's a lot of time to come off the waitlist, right?

If you don't mind sharing, what are your stats??

 

[Missorleans]

Waitlisted..... 🙁

are you OOS?

 

[brightnshiny]

applied last year
interviewed 03/11
Put on priority waitlist 05/11
told in August close but not quite

applied this year
interviewed 10/11

anddd just got NFA letter in the mail.

Oh this has been a long drawn out process with no end in sight

Anyone know when the next committee meeting is?

 

[blackedout]

I got waitlisted as well. I'm still keeping my hopes up; I'm just hoping that I don't have to wait too long before I hear anything. Being on the waitlist all the way until June or July would kill me.

 

[Brees on Tap]

UGHHHHH

NFA/active consideration 🙄🙄

Oh well, to much to look forward to senior year to let this bring me down now. I'm confident I will get in at some point. Good luck to everyone else in my position and a big congrats to all those who have been accepted, look forward to seeing yall next year!

And maybe a little something, to those that got a NFA, that help me get through the news today....If they interviewed you this early, they like you. Of all the applications they have recieved, the chose yours as one of the first....all us NFA people got this! Good things come to those who wait, and I am willing to wait for this. 👍

 

[Member1986]

It does no one any good to post "accepted!" "NFA!", etc, if you don't post your stats.

We've never met. We're not friends. We're not a family. Maybe we will be if we get into this school, but we're not now.

So knowing that Dagni was waitlisted and Member214213 was accepted doesn't really add anything to this discussion.

Tell us something about you. Preferably your GPA and MCAT.

 

[scarshapedstar]

It does no one any good to post "accepted!" "NFA!", etc, if you don't post your stats.

We've never met. We're not friends. We're not a family. Maybe we will be if we get into this school, but we're not now.

So knowing that Dagni was waitlisted and Member214213 was accepted doesn't really add anything to this discussion.

Tell us something about you. Preferably your GPA and MCAT.

Boy, you could charm the pants off a snake! 🙄 Word to the wise - there will be other people there on your interview day. You won't know them, they won't be friends or family, but you need to get along with them, and "so what's your GPA and MCAT?" isn't a good way to break the ice. Just sayin'. There are very good reasons why people are hesitant to reveal information on here that could identify them personally until they are accepted. And like you said... you're not even a friend.

UGHHHHH

NFA/active consideration 🙄🙄

Oh well, to much to look forward to senior year to let this bring me down now. I'm confident I will get in at some point.

I was accepted at 26. You're so far up, you don't know what down is. 😛

 

[nmed20]

UGHHHHH

NFA/active consideration 🙄🙄

Oh well, to much to look forward to senior year to let this bring me down now. I'm confident I will get in at some point. Good luck to everyone else in my position and a big congrats to all those who have been accepted, look forward to seeing yall next year!

And maybe a little something, to those that got a NFA, that help me get through the news today....If they interviewed you this early, they like you. Of all the applications they have recieved, the chose yours as one of the first....all us NFA people got this! Good things come to those who wait, and I am willing to wait for this. 👍

I thought No Further Action meant rejection?? Or does the "active consideration" part mean that you're on hold for now??

 

[egreen3]

It does no one any good to post "accepted!" "NFA!", etc, if you don't post your stats.

We've never met. We're not friends. We're not a family. Maybe we will be if we get into this school, but we're not now.

So knowing that Dagni was waitlisted and Member214213 was accepted doesn't really add anything to this discussion.

Tell us something about you. Preferably your GPA and MCAT.

^why so serious?

 

[scarshapedstar]

I thought No Further Action meant rejection?? Or does the "active consideration" part mean that you're on hold for now??

NFA is limbo/purgatory, on hold, etc. Not rejected.

 

[Missorleans]

It does no one any good to post "accepted!" "NFA!", etc, if you don't post your stats.

We've never met. We're not friends. We're not a family. Maybe we will be if we get into this school, but we're not now.

So knowing that Dagni was waitlisted and Member214213 was accepted doesn't really add anything to this discussion.

Tell us something about you. Preferably your GPA and MCAT.

maybe you feel like we never met, but its possible you could have met some of the people on here if you've interviewed already. Maybe we're not technically friends, but I feel like we've got a camaraderie going on here. There's a nice way to ask for stats; that's not it. "Maybe we will be if we get into this school, but we're not now," are you going to be badgering people for test grades a year from now if they only say "I did well"?

 

[tranquilo]

Hi,

I had an excellent experience during my interview/tour (Tuesday 10/18). The three medical students who gave us the tour were very helpful, friendly and open. I'd be happy to go to school with students like them. They took us into the anatomy lab, pulled up a cadaver and showed us what they were studying! Very cool stuff!

I was a little concerned with University Hospital. We didn't get a tour by the busy attending and the med student who was there refused to give us a tour. Is this the main hospital where rotations would take place? Also, what factors go into ranking medical schools based on primary care? Why isn't LSU-NO ranked?

For the interview, watch out for the "What is professionalism?" question and please recognize Dr. Klein if he's your interviewer. His name is all over the walls of the simulations lab. http://www.medschool.lsuhsc.edu/internal_medicine/faculty_detail.aspx?name=klein_russell

Good luck! 👍

-C

 

[loveoforganic]

It's mostly 1st years giving the tours, and we haven't spent (at least the vast majority of us) any real time in UH and sure wouldn't feel comfortable wandering around aimlessly alone muchless with a group of unknowns. Just so that you don't think the med student refusing to tour you around was for some odd reason.

Congrats to those accepted, and for NFAers, lotsssssss of time left.

 

[egreen3]

For the interview, watch out for the "What is professionalism?" question

yea, so there's three 30 minute interviews. all three of my interviewers asked me to give my definition of professionalism, what qualities it takes to be professional, etc. (btw my definition of professionalism got better each time I was asked😛)

so have an answer ready for that!

 

[bambam02]

Has anyone seen residence hall so called "apartments", and is there anywhere I can see pictures of them.. I don't live in the city.

Also, Dr. Eubanks gave us a heads up that we would be asked professionalism questions prior to the interviews.

 

[jessiemsy]

That's funny, I didn't get any professionalism questions. Maybe it's because I'm old (ok, relatively, haha, I am a post-bac 28 year old) and I have plenty of professional work experience. I did however get the "leadership" question.

 

[loveoforganic]

Has anyone seen residence hall so called "apartments", and is there anywhere I can see pictures of them.. I don't live in the city.

Also, Dr. Eubanks gave us a heads up that we would be asked professionalism questions prior to the interviews.

To get a single, you have to live for a semesterish in Stanislaus first. Doubles you can rent out alone if you choose though

 

[metallica81788]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't that just another way of saying A - B - C - Fail?? Isn't that how residency programs would interpret it?

Sort of. The margins are a lot smaller, though. It's not a uniform 10 point scale - it varies from class to class.

For example, P might be 70-84, HP 85-92, and Honors 93+. Obviously, I don't know how residency programs interpret it but I think some other med schools around the country have smaller ranges for HP and Honors as well.

 

[Dr McSexy]

I was a little concerned with University Hospital. We didn't get a tour by the busy attending and the med student who was there refused to give us a tour.

Eh, 1st years (and 2nd years for that matter), who give the tours, don't really know the way around the hospital. Plus, touring the hospital is more a customary thing. You really only tour the ED anyway. "Here's some sick people. Here's some rooms. Here's a machine" is pretty much all you would have gotten anyway.

Is this the main hospital where rotations would take place?

You'll do rotations at several locations in several cities (BR, Lafayette, NOLA) depending on what you request or your luck of the draw. UH is obviously the one that is closest to the school and the one location where's it's most accessible to give a tour. It's also worth noting that at sometime in the future, near or far away, the new hospital (VA-LSU merger teaching facility) will open and I'm sure rotations will run through there as well.

Also, what factors go into ranking medical schools based on primary care? Why isn't LSU-NO ranked?

If you are talking about the USNEWS rankings, they probably list their methodology somewhere on the website. For the most part, any medical school that is "unranked" generally doesn't supply all the necessary information that the USNEWS needs in order to rank the school. I would assume that probably holds true for LSU-NO as well.

 

[tranquilo]

It's mostly 1st years giving the tours, and we haven't spent (at least the vast majority of us) any real time in UH and sure wouldn't feel comfortable wandering around aimlessly alone muchless with a group of unknowns. Just so that you don't think the med student refusing to tour you around was for some odd reason.

Our tour guides were great! Two of them were second years and one was a first year. It was a third or fourth year doing a rotation in the ER who refused to give us the tour. We found her as we walked into the ER. I'm sure she had a valid excuse.

 

[dbsksweetz]

For the people who have received letters, do you mind posting your stats and when you completed your secondaries?

I submitted mine in mid-September with a 28mcat and 3.5 gpa. I'm currently in a masters program right. I have my fingers crossed, since I graduated undergrad a couple of years ago already.

If anyone could message me with advice or post up their info, I would be very appreciative. Thanks!

 

[Brees on Tap]

For the people who have received letters, do you mind posting your stats and when you completed your secondaries?

I submitted mine in mid-September with a 28mcat and 3.5 gpa. I'm currently in a masters program right. I have my fingers crossed, since I graduated undergrad a couple of years ago already.

If anyone could message me with advice or post up their info, I would be very appreciative. Thanks!

I submitted my secondary in July.

MCAT 29 (9/9/11)

GPA 3.7, BCPM 3.65, but with strong upward trend over sophomore and junior years, only one B in any BCPM class during that time!

NFA as of now.

 

[dbsksweetz]

I submitted my secondary in July.

MCAT 29 (9/9/11)

GPA 3.7, BCPM 3.65, but with strong upward trend over sophomore and junior years, only one B in any BCPM class during that time!

NFA as of now.

Thank you so much! I've been trying to gauge when/if I will receive an interview or not, so I really appreciate the help.

 

[toeshoes87]

Hi all... Working on my secondary now. Curious how important intent to remain in Louisiana is in the application process? I moved here almost 2 years ago due to my husband's job, but we aren't sure what our long-term plans are. Obviously I haven't stated this in any application material, just curious if it may come up in the interview?

Thanks!