LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine
New Orleans, Louisiana · allopathic (MD) medical school
LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine admissions statistics
- Median or average GPA
- 3.76Average
- Applications received
- 3,8652025-2026
- Entering class
- 1952025-2026
- Applications per seat
- 19.82025-2026
- In-state share of applications
- 16.6%2025-2026
- In-state share of the class
- 87.7%2025-2026
Applications received for each seat in the entering class. Not an acceptance rate: neither source publishes the number of offers made.
LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine MCAT and GPA
LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine reports average undergraduate GPA of 3.76 for its entering class. It does not publish an MCAT figure through the sources PreMD tracks.
- GPA3.76 against a median of 3.8 across the 155 MD programs that report it, which puts it around the 29th percentile of those programs.
- Out-of-state tuition$61,115 against a median of $69,571 across the 154 MD programs that report it, which puts it around the 30th percentile of those programs.
- Entering class size195 against a median of 139 across the 160 MD programs that report it, which puts it around the 79th percentile of those programs.
A percentile here is against the programs that report the figure, not against every medical school and not against applicants. It says where the school sits among its reporting peers and nothing else.
LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine acceptance rate
PreMD does not publish an acceptance rate for individual schools. The free national sources publish applications and matriculants, not the number of offers a school made, so an acceptance rate cannot be calculated from them without inventing the missing number.
What can be published from those figures is the ratio: LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine received 3,865 applications for 195 seats in the entering class, or about 19.8 applications per seat.
Who LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine accepts applications from
| Applicant group | Policy |
|---|---|
| Out-of-state Applicants | All out of state applicants will be pre-screened. Those applicants chosen to move to the next step will receive a secondary application. . |
| Canadian Applicants | Canadian applicants are considered in the same group as out of state applicants. Canadian applicant are pre-screened. Those chosen to move to the next step will receive a secondary application. |
| International Applicants | Students have to have attended a North American College or University and have Permanent Resident Status in the United States. |
| DACA Status Applicants | No policy stated |
Community college coursework: While credits from a 4 year institution is preferably. Applicants may still apply with credits from community colleges.
LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine tuition and cost
- In-state tuition and fees
- $32,937
- Out-of-state tuition and fees
- $61,115
- In-state cost of attendance
- $84,235
- Out-of-state cost of attendance
- $112,413
- In-state health insurance
- $7,438
- Out-of-state health insurance
- $7,438
- Students receiving aid
- 79%
- Average graduating debt
- $233,571
A blank figure here means the school did not report it to the source PreMD tracks, never that it costs nothing. Check the school's own financial aid page before budgeting against it.
LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine application requirements
- Secondary fee
- $89
- Secondary deadline
- December 1st
- Latest MCAT accepted
- September 30, 2026
- Oldest MCAT accepted
- January 2024
- Committee letter
- Accepted
- Letter packets
- Accepted
- Individual letters
- Accepted
- AAMC PREview
- We are recommending applicants submit PREview scores
Who receives a secondary: All residents of the State of Louisiana, out-of-state applicants are pre- screened.
Prerequisite coursework
| Subject | Required or recommended | Credits | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Biochemistry | Required | 3 | General Biochemistry |
| Biology | Required | 8 | General Biology 1 and 2 with labs. |
| Chemistry | Required | 16 | General Chemistry 1 and 2 with corresponding labs Organic Chemistry 1 and 2 with corresponding labs |
| Composition & Rhetoric | Required | 6 | General English 6 hours |
| Physics | Required | 8 | General Physics 1 and 2 with corresponding labs |
| Statistics | Required | 3 | General Statistics or Calculus. This has to be a in Math. Statistics courses in Psychology will not qualify. |
LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine interview
Three one-on-one interviews. Interviews will be through a virtual platform.
PreMD reads that as a one-on-one interview, held virtual, and sets up its interview practice for this school accordingly.
September 2026
Information is given to those who are invited to interview two weeks prior to appointment.
- Regional interviews
- Regional interviews are not available.
- Video interview
- All interviews will be conducted via a virtual platform.
LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine waitlist
- Typical positions offered
- The waitlist varies every year.
Applicants are notified that they are placed on the waitlist. Being accepted off of the waitlist varies every year.
LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine mission
The LSU School of Medicine is dedicated to providing the opportunity for an excellent medical education to all applicants who are prepared to benefit from its curriculum and instruction. To this end, the Admissions Committee will strive to recruit and admit residents from Louisiana from every geographic, economic, social, and cultural dimension of the state of Louisiana and also other states within the country.
LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine rankings
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What this page publishes instead is the comparison above: where the school's own reported figures sit among the MD programs that report the same figure, with the count of reporting programs stated so the comparison can be judged.
LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine admissions contact
Office of AdmissionsSchool of Medicine in New OrleansNew Orleans, LA 70112 USA(504) 568-6262 · [email protected]
Where this came from
- AAMC MSAR public school report
- AAMC FACTS table A-1, 2025-2026 · 2025-2026
- calculated by PreMD from the published application and matriculant counts · 2025-2026
Figures on this page were last reviewed on 2026-08-04.
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