Yes, I applied ED and those are the character counts!
I've heard it's not very OOS friendly at all. I'd say over 90% of students are in state and they place priority on in state students.
I am also OOS but haven't seen anything
I'm assuming that since they have a strong in-state bias they prefer applicants who have meaningful ties to the state? But personally I wouldn't try to force it or come up with some connection if you really don't have one, so I would probably leave it blank
Not yet! I submitted the secondary on 7/27 and received the email that my app is under review on 7/28.
Current MSI (been in shreveport for about 1 week lol), but during our orientation, we were told our class of ~150 students had about 8 OOS kids for reference
wow, nvm I wasted my money
what were the stats for those OOS? Do you know?
No clue. I know one is from Michigan with 0 ties to LA if that helps tho.
MSAR says that median MCAT is 503 and median cGPA is 3.54 for accepted OOS applicants!
The list of schools participating in VITA has been finalized and Shreveport isn't on the list. I'm hoping they're just having virtual interviews
I believe the secondary is sent based on a screening tool for MCAT and GPA (I could be wrong on this). But I do know LSU-NOLA has a 32 hour rule where if you attended graduate school they consider your GPA from your most recent 32 hours of coursework (as opposed to undergrad GPA).
If you don't mind me asking, how did you find this out because I cannot find anything about it. Is this something we should worry about? I ask because I know he was very in favor of a legit holistic approach to admissions and I have never met Dr. Thomas. It may just be me worrying too much though lol
My roommate is a first year and they all received an email from Dr. Ghali over the weekend announcing it. Honestly I'm a little worried about it too but my roommate knew Dr. Thomas through the AHEC and Rural Scholars program and said she was very nice and will likely make the process more fair if that helps any lolIf you don't mind me asking, how did you find this out because I cannot find anything about it. Is this something we should worry about? I ask because I know he was very in favor of a legit holistic approach to admissions and I have never met Dr. Thomas. It may just be me worrying too much though lol
MSAR says interview invitations will be sent beginning August 31, 2020.
A lot of my friends got their interview emails later in the afternoon last year (4-5PM), but who knows.I know. That’s today. That’s why I was asking if you guys still think they will be sent out. I’m not sure what time they’re usually sent out, but they haven’t yet.
