When I worked as a traveling accountant, I audited this SNF in Cleveland, Ohio. And I recall a salary sheet from one of the payroll periods; I was auditing their payroll to make sure no ghost employees were on their payroll timesheets. These PTs and OTs made bank! I doubt they went to an Ivy, per se.
Just be thankful for a lot of blessings such as: you've been accepted to a DPT program, you will ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS have a job, your commute time to work could be minutes away from home and NOT hours due to the weather and/or traffic, you'll receive annual raises, you'll feel like you've accomplished something for society at the end of the day, and not crunch numbers and ask yourself what the hell have you accomplished, you'll work a 40hr week (unless you want to work as a PRN), you'll leave work at work and not think about it on the weekends.
You'll have AUTONOMY....I repeat.... you'll have AUTONOMY, you could possibly meet your significant other at your job (if you're single at the moment), you can work for a hospital, SNF, a school, open your private practice, travel pt.
NO, what school you end up going to is irrelevant per what I've witnessed. If you drive a Bentley and I drove a Ford Escort, both vehicles will get us to our destination with the exception of the WOW factor!
