Has anyone done PTA-transfer BS->DPT?

[StudentsMom]

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I am a parent trying to figure out how to help keep my kid out of debt. She's a HS sophomore, but she really wants to be in the PT field. We've saved some money toward college, but it's enough to help with maybe 70% of undergrad or a chunk of grad school, not both, doing the traditional route. So I've been thinking about different ways my DD might get all the education needed without as much of the cost.

Scenario: DD lives at home and gets an AA/PTA, then transfers with Junior standing to a state university (they do that here in NY at SUNY) to finish the BS. I think at University at Buffalo she can still apply to the 3+3 as a transfer student as long as she has the proper prerequisites.

Is this a sensible way to think about this?

 

[VitaminPT]

I think it's great that he's interested in the field! Let's be honest. Everyone takes the same courses the first couple years. If he's interested in PT, why not do it? He may decide that the pta route is a better fit. It's an associate degree that has potential to make good money. He would always have the option to continue to a 4 year if he felt like it.

Maybe he wants to continue on an get his DPT. If so, he would still be so incredibly young he isn't locked into any one profession.

 

[dptprospect54]

I'm also from New York so familiar with the SUNY system, and was interested in PT since high school. Didn't know that much about all the application process going in. I graduated from college in 2014, I will be starting PT school this year so I've had some time off. Different things work for everyone but just to share what I would recommend as my opinion of the best choice looking back on things. Financially I would say go to Buffalo right from the start. It saves a year and they have very specific prerequisites to their program, basically you have to go there undergrad before being able to get in for grad school or at least it would be very challenging to match some of the prerequisites. It is not the standard list on PTCAS and they don't use PTCAS.

 

[tpath11]

Honestly, go to a cheap out of state school in WV like Marshall university or WVU, you'll end up getting a BS from a 4 yr school for minimal money and then apply to a DPT program after claiming WV residency, since wv is a pretty poor state, lots of aid is there, good school too

 

[tpath11]

Honestly, go to a cheap out of state school in WV like Marshall university or WVU, you'll end up getting a BS from a 4 yr school for minimal money and then apply to a DPT program after claiming WV residency, since wv is a pretty poor state, lots of aid is there, good school too

I did this, and am starting DPT and have 0 debt after paying my tuition and living expenses myself + a little aid from FAFSA working about 20 hrs a week. My DPT cost will be about 70k living included the next 3 years. Not too bad.

 

[LoLo1215]

Does anyone know if Marshall will give students the chance to receive an out of state waiver to get in state tuition? Got accepted to their DPT program and want to go but I was wondering if there was a way to get the cost down?

 

[amlope03]

Does anyone know if Marshall will give students the chance to receive an out of state waiver to get in state tuition? Got accepted to their DPT program and want to go but I was wondering if there was a way to get the cost down?

They do not, unfortunately.