Tulane University, School of Medicine Admission
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The Facts

Tulane University is a rather moderately-sized, private institution located in the city of New Orleans, Louisiana, and has a combined graduate and undergraduate population of over 13,200 students. The university's School of Medicine, however, is significantly smaller, and is home to about 600 graduate medical students. The average age of enrollment is around 24, and it is fairly rare for any of the students to enter the school directly from their undergraduate education. The school is perhaps best known for its various research centers including centers for infectious diseases, Gene Therapy and genetics, effectiveness and prevention, bioenvironmental research, behavioral health, cancer, abdominal transplant, sport's medicine, women's health, as well as cardiovascular medicine. Aside from the basic MD degree, the school offers a joint degree in the MD/MPH.

Admission to Tulane University's School of Medicine is extremely competitive among the many students who apply; last year, over 8,500 students applied for admission to the school, and approximately 220 of those students were accepted. Eventually however, only about 160 of the admitted students actually enrolled for the coming semester. The admitted students had average MCAT scores of about 10.5 in Biology, 10.8 in Physics, and 9.8 in Verbal, as well as an average undergraduate GPA of about a 3.8. Students are notified of their admissions status on a rolling basis, and are able to take advantage of the school's early application program if they so choose.

The School of Medicine has about 600 faculty members, all of whom come from very diverse medical and academic backgrounds. The school also boasts a very manageable student to faculty ratio of about 1:1, and the small classes allow for plenty of discussion and interaction between students and their professors.

Graduates of the School of Medicine are often accepted to some of the most prestigious residency programs in the nation, and most frequently head to the states of Texas, California, Washington, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, as well as Maryland.

Clinical Programs

Students are required to complete extensive clinical training which is integrated in the basic science curriculum for the first two years. Students have the opportunity to work with actual patients during these primary years; they rotate through family and community medicine, internal medicine, ob/gyn, pediatrics, psychiatry, neurology, surgery, as well as a subinternship.

What's Good

"You get such an incredible amount of patient contact, it's a really rare opportunity."

"Students tend to be very supportive of one another, which I appreciate."

"There is always a huge amount of research going on here, which is amazing."

What's Bad

"There can be some competitiveness for the best internships."

"There is no on campus graduate housing, which can be very inconvenient."

"The administration seems far more concerned with the undergraduate students."

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