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[underdog427]

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Does anyone know the national reputation of LSU Shreveport? While the school is unranked in US NEWS due to it not providing all the info needed for ranking, I was curious to know if going to my local state school will limit my residency options outside my state?

 

[TexasPhysician]

It will not hurt you. USMLE scores are the great equalizer. LSU is a fine program.

 

[OveractiveBrain]

Does anyone know the national reputation of LSU Shreveport? While the school is unranked in US NEWS due to it not providing all the info needed for ranking, I was curious to know if going to my local state school will limit my residency options outside my state?

So, as someone who is presumably from Lousiana, why the f*ck would you want to go to Shreveport (I think I've posted this before) when you can go to New Orleans?

And OF COURSE it limits you. So does going to Tulane. Its not Harvard. Its not Duke. Its "just a state school." (Tulane is not a state school, but its also not an Ivy, either). Now, if you do exceptionally well, sure you can move up and on. But when you start at "wait, where'd you go? Isnt LSU in baton rouge?" its hard to go to UCSF for medicine or MGH for neurosurgery. Its NOT like "you stay in Louisiana, you're stuck in Louisiana," but your options are definitely more limited and your performance must be that much better to go somewhere stellar afterwards.

Though you can't beat the price... You will also learn that you don;t always want to end up at the "best" residency anyway. Unless you're into research or guarenteeing yourself a research fellowship, there are plenty of excellent residencies for the practice of medicine that do not involve Ivy leagues. The higher you go in medicine, the less it matters (until you want to get published in Nature or NEJM).

 

[loveoforganic]

I'm at LSU-NO now, having applied only there during undergrad. There are certainly negatives, but I think the positives far outweigh them, and I'm currently intending to go into academics in at least some form (pedigree matters more).

Cons: Lower prestige nationwide. Not tremendous amount of research $$$ coming in. Charity OOC.

Pros: Med school pedigree is pretty far down the list of things residency program directors look at. LSU residencies love their own. The price is wayyyyyyy lower than you'd be paying elsewhere (unless you're getting $$$ elsewhere). New hospital going up. Home.

Teachers have been really great by and large so far (at new orleans) fwiw. Still sucks (a lot), and I think I may have learned better with systems-based, but still happy with my decision.

If you're not positive where you want to go though, apply a few places. If you're already a med student (your SDN status) there... Don't drop and apply elsewhere...