LSUS vs. Tulane

[jtay119]

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LSU Shreveport
Pros

• $28,000/year tuition
• Super close community environment
• Brand new medical school building
• 2hr drive from my family
• Shreveport is a cheap place to live

Cons

• Matches mainly in state within other LSU programs (I want to go out of state most likely)
• Does not match with many top tier programs

Tulane
Pros

• Top tier medical school
• Match rates are great and many match into prestigious, competitive programs
• Living in a larger, more diverse city
• Name carries more weight than LSUS

Cons

• New Orleans is more expensive and prone to natural disasters, more dangerous, etc.
• $60,000/year tuition

Summary: I'm not sure what specialty I'll match into, which makes this very difficult, but I'd like to eventually spend time in academic medicine/research, which makes me lean towards Tulane. However, I'd love to move close to my family and friends for a while and living in a cheap, quiet town seems like it would be conducive to medical school life. I don't know if the jump from $120,000 in tuition to $240,000 could be justified. I just don't want to miss out on opportunities that I think Tulane would offer me.

 

[brockhamptonfanacct]

I've never heard of Tulane being referred to as a top tier medical school. I would take the 28k a year tuition and never look back

 

[chzsux]

Yeah, I've heard Tulane as being referred to as a solid mid-tier at least according to residency director rankings. I think if you don't have to commit to anything now you should just wait for financial aid and potentially use the fact that LSU is cheaper to get some more aid from Tulane