Do I have a S-H-O-T???

[RehabSci27]

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I am graduating from an o.k. school with a BA in Rehab Sciences and a minor in Psych. My GPA is 3.0, Pre-Reqs are at a 3.2, GRE score at a 1000, and I have hours of volunteer work. I have a great working background with children and adults with physical and mental disabilities. I have MOST of my pre-reqs done but I'm still missing one or two for most schools. DO I HAVE A SHOT ANYWHERE? Help a gal out who desperately has been wanting to be an OT for years and years. Thanks!!

 

[veggieswirl]

i think you have a shot, you are in the same boat as me. three years ago, you would have been a shoo-in at my top two choices, csudh and usc.

 

[OTlg2]

I believe you have a shot. & I sincerely hope so because my gpa isn't very strong either. Which schools do you plan to apply to?

 

[Whistle Pig]

I am graduating from an o.k. school with a BA in Rehab Sciences and a minor in Psych. My GPA is 3.0, Pre-Reqs are at a 3.2, GRE score at a 1000, and I have hours of volunteer work. I have a great working background with children and adults with physical and mental disabilities. I have MOST of my pre-reqs done but I'm still missing one or two for most schools. DO I HAVE A SHOT ANYWHERE? Help a gal out who desperately has been wanting to be an OT for years and years. Thanks!!

Really? Your last sentence could cut a couple ways in assessing your application. If schools perceive you as focused and highly motivated yet only achieving your levels in grades and testing, well, that may speak to your abilities. Conversely, if there were confounding factors? Be careful on your positioning with this one. Many on here are deluded that magic essays will miraculously transform their possibilities. I believe essays can and do help, but mostly by not bringing to light negative motives, poor communicating skills, weak analytical abilities, etc. Some inkle at the idea that a wonderful essay will somehow overcome mediocre performance history and patterns. They won't.

Write them to "do no harm" and illumine any specific notable circumstance that might have prevented more appropriately stellar legacy of performance. Sadly, wishful thinking and helping personna will increasingly not make the grade as the competition for fixed numbers of spots in OT programs is rapidly escalating.

We will reap what we've sowed