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A forum for discussion of admission to PA school in general. ... Closed Programs; 7,084 posts. ATSU CCPA ...
There are a few programs, Pacific, Georgia Regents, and a few others that give the BS and MS at the same time as long as you have 90+ credits. Like the PharmD, PA programs provide more than enough credits to cover the credit distribution for both degrees required for regional academic accreditation.
I started PA school 30 years after my freshman year in college. I did not have to repeat math, English, or physics, but did have to repeat stats, psych, and one quarter of inorganic chemistry. I actually took the inorganic at the very end -- after organic and biochem!
Well thats good, honestly most schools look at the whole package. Since you sound like you want specifics..schools I feel fit the description university of Utah, Kentucky, Penn state, Arcadia, Duke, Kettering, Mississippi college, Missouri state, AT still....now we are talking holisitic, but these schools may still require B- or better on prerequsites.
Applying to PA school was hard, there is no tried and true formula to get in and numbers alone do not seem to matter. Standards are high for the obvious reasons. However, improving my stats over the two application cycles seem to have made a difference, but which stats had the biggest effect are unclear.
Best Grad Physician Assistant Programs according to student reviews By mets00 , November 6, 2015 Physician Assistant Programs
Agree, most programs don't seem to care for things like English, statistics, medical terminology, psychology; however, many do not accept online labs, particularly for prerequisites such as organic chemistry, microbiology, etc., and will specify as much in their admission requirements.
This is a sub-forum for threads on all PA schools which have not yet reached provisional accreditation by ARC-PA. Once provisional accreditation is granted, schools discussed here will be given their own sub-forums.
2-5-8-15 posters/classmates reporting a crappy time in a particular PA school means NOTHING... because its "subjective" and there may have been another 25/45/98 students in that SAME CLASS, that same year who didn't feel a bum... got thru their rotations with little to NO hassle, graduated, passed the PANCE on their FIRST try with minimal ...
With many Americans looking to retool their careers after the 2008 meltdown, does anyone have a good idea of PA schools that actively recruit older PA students like 45 or even 50. I know many career focused clinical technologists with 15-20 years HCE (e.g. OR techs, Pathology techs, Clinical Lab techs) that want to train up to PA careers.