Strictly out of my own curiosity, I'd appreciate it if somebody who knows could answer a couple of questions for me and verify for me that all of this is correct:
3 campuses, each takes a total of 3 cohorts of 50 students each per year. So assuming there isn't a significant number of dropouts/dismissals, then somewhere in the neighborhood of 450 DPTs will graduate from this school each year. Does this number include the flex DPT students and the MOT/DPT combined students, or do those programs have their own additional cohorts?
Roughly 9,000 DPTs will graduate this year, meaning that 5% of the PTs currently entering the workforce will have gone to USA. That boggles my mind. Also, my understanding is that USA is a for-profit business.
Also, as USA does not use PTCAS (presumably decreasing the number of applications submitted), and they admit such a large number of students every year, is this a relatively easy school to get in to? Is is a school we should be recommending to people who are struggling to get accepted, based on the hypothesis that their chances may be higher at USA than they are elsewhere?
Please don't anyone think I'm bashing on the school or its graduates in any way. I just got really curious about this because I see so many threads on here of people struggling to get accepted, and realize that a pretty large proportion of my future colleagues will have gone to school here, so I want to make sure I have my facts straight.
3 campuses, each takes a total of 3 cohorts of 50 students each per year. So assuming there isn't a significant number of dropouts/dismissals, then somewhere in the neighborhood of 450 DPTs will graduate from this school each year. Does this number include the flex DPT students and the MOT/DPT combined students, or do those programs have their own additional cohorts?
Roughly 9,000 DPTs will graduate this year, meaning that 5% of the PTs currently entering the workforce will have gone to USA. That boggles my mind. Also, my understanding is that USA is a for-profit business.
Also, as USA does not use PTCAS (presumably decreasing the number of applications submitted), and they admit such a large number of students every year, is this a relatively easy school to get in to? Is is a school we should be recommending to people who are struggling to get accepted, based on the hypothesis that their chances may be higher at USA than they are elsewhere?
Please don't anyone think I'm bashing on the school or its graduates in any way. I just got really curious about this because I see so many threads on here of people struggling to get accepted, and realize that a pretty large proportion of my future colleagues will have gone to school here, so I want to make sure I have my facts straight.