Can someone give me some pointers?

[Hotsauce15]

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Hey forum,
I view this site a lot, but this is my first time actually posting.
Currently this is my last semester of undergraduate, I am graduating with a biology degree in Spring 2013. I really want to go to PT school, but my GPA isn't the greatest and neither is my GRE scores. As of right now my GPA is a 2.91 and my GRE is 145 Q and 142 V. I have done 100 hours with a Physical Therapist, and I have also volunteered for 100+ hours as a Sports Medicine Trainer at my school. I live in Georgia so I would be looking to stay in state, however I am willing to relocate if I have to. I am also an African American male if that means anything at all which I doubt it does.

My prerequisites.
General Bio-C
General Chemistry I-B
General Chemistry II-C
Physics I-B
Anatomy A&P I-B
Statistics-B
Psychology-B
English I-B
Taking Physics II and A&P II in Spring 2013.

I was wondering if schools possibly can switch out grades for upper level courses.
Like maybe switching out General Chemistry II's "C" for my "B" in Biochemistry etc.
As I've grown as a Biology major, I have pretty much been a B student in all of my upper level classes, not sure if colleges will look at that.

So I guess my question to you guys would be, do you guys have any schools that will maybe accept me as I am right now, or would I have to graduate and take some graduate credits. If you guys know of some schools in which I meet requirements for GPA or GRE, please let me know. I have been stressing over this for a while now. I think that Biology just wasn't the way for me to go, I love Physical Therapy and Biology was really the only route I thought to take because my school doesn't offer Exercise Science 🙁.

 

[nicolej5]

Hey forum,
I view this site a lot, but this is my first time actually posting.
Currently this is my last semester of undergraduate, I am graduating with a biology degree in Spring 2013. I really want to go to PT school, but my GPA isn't the greatest and neither is my GRE scores. As of right now my GPA is a 2.91 and my GRE is 145 Q and 142 V. I have done 100 hours with a Physical Therapist, and I have also volunteered for 100+ hours as a Sports Medicine Trainer at my school. I live in Georgia so I would be looking to stay in state, however I am willing to relocate if I have to. I am also an African American male if that means anything at all which I doubt it does.

My prerequisites.
General Bio-C
General Chemistry I-B
General Chemistry II-C
Physics I-B
Anatomy A&P I-B
Statistics-B
Psychology-B
English I-B
Taking Physics II and A&P II in Spring 2013.

I was wondering if schools possibly can switch out grades for upper level courses.
Like maybe switching out General Chemistry II's "C" for my "B" in Biochemistry etc.
As I've grown as a Biology major, I have pretty much been a B student in all of my upper level classes, not sure if colleges will look at that.

So I guess my question to you guys would be, do you guys have any schools that will maybe accept me as I am right now, or would I have to graduate and take some graduate credits. If you guys know of some schools in which I meet requirements for GPA or GRE, please let me know. I have been stressing over this for a while now. I think that Biology just wasn't the way for me to go, I love Physical Therapy and Biology was really the only route I thought to take because my school doesn't offer Exercise Science 🙁.

I will be blunt and tell you that there are very few places that will accept your gre (especially your verbal). Also, no, you can't switch out those scores because chem 2 is a pre req and biochem is not. it never hurts to try and apply, but I would start looking into retaking some classes and definitely retaking the gre. good luck.

 

[Enzio]

Dear Hotsauce,

DPT programs are very competitive to begin with. I'm from NY and we have 20 accredited DPT programs and I can guarantee you everyone in my class had a pre-req GPT higher than 3.5. My point is, Georgia only has 5 accredited DPT programs, that means it is 4x more competitive than NY. Of course I'm generalizing, not taking into account of state population, but you get the gist.

I had a couple of Cs in my undergrad career, and mostly Bs. I took 2 years taking pre-reqs I didn't have and a few pre-reqs that I got B- or C+ in. I applied to two schools in Missouri and I never even got an interview from them. All the schools in NY that I applied to gave me at least an interview and believe me, if you're academics isn't perfect, interview is everything.

I took those two years working as a PT aide, taking those pre-reqs, bought a bunch of books for GRE and grad school essay and interview strategies and I gained valuable experience both in PT and in academics.

If you're fresh out of college, you still have time. Very few people in my class came straight out of college. Most of us worked for a few years and some of us worked for many years before applying/getting in to the program. Take those time and make sure you get them As.

 

[Hotsauce15]

Thank you guys for your advice. Yea I think I may try and retake classes before I waste money on applying at alot of schools as of right now. North Georgia deadline is December 17 I think i'll give it a shot because there minimum is a 2.8 for gpa and i'm missing the minimum gre by one point..