I am also applying to St. Augustine, and have a good friend that goes there. The school has a reputation for graduating really good PT's (I also know someone who graduated from the program, and I would agree). They are sticklers on professionalism, ethics and body approximation, which makes sense. Like NDH had said they are NOT a research based program, like all programs they do include research into the coursework, but their emphasis is on manual therapy. The founder of the school (Paris) is a very well known name in the manual therapy/physical therapy world. To give you an idea of this schools reputation, I was contacting clinics (in wisconsin) to shadow at for my observation hours, while talking to the PTs they asked where I was looking at applying. I got the same reaction from everyone "Oh wow, that's a really great school"
Like NDH also said the school is quite small. It is a private school that only has DPT, OT and a dual degree option. The class size (i think) is 70 per trimester (45 of which are the DPT students), they graduate/admit 3x a year. The area is beautiful and the people are very friendly, its competitive to get into, but once you are in it is like family. the upperclassmen really help out the underclassmen and are just genuinely nice people.
