I have somewhat comparable stats to yours...The exception being your PT observation hours..Keep in mind too that I was a transfer student from a community college and I retook some classes which hurt me a bit..my retakes brought me about to a similar GPa as yours but before the retakes, I was down a bit...I posted my stats below... But yeah, I personally think you could use a lot more hours of observation for sure. Does your program require you to do an internship? At MSU, the Kinesiology program requires a 240 hour internship during senior year. I did mine at a local hospital for inpatient orthopedics. Before that internship, I had roughly 80 hours..60 of it was with Outpatient Ortho and 20 was Inpatient Acute. Make sure you not only are getting lots of hours in, but make sure you observe in different settings...Observe at nursing homes, school settings, outpatient ortho, inpatient acute, inpatient ortho, inpatient and outpatient neuro....Always remember, observing 100 hours of a mixed bag of settings is A LOT (put even extra emphasis on 'A LOT') A LOT better than observing 100 hours at one outpatient clinic. And if a school that you want to go to has a minimum of 120 hours, remember that that is a minimum only and is not necessarily what is 'competitive.'
Very glad to see you do research though...that helps a TON too in my honest opinion...If you can get a rec letter from one of the staff members of that research lab, that will help drastically as well!
At any rate, I got accepted to Andrews University this fall. I was put on the waiting list for Northwestern. I was denied by CMU, GVSU, WSU. and OU in Michigan here. I am still waiting to hear from UM - Flint as they moved me on to their 'next round' and should hear from them any day now. It was tough but I got accepted somewhere at least...
Hope this helps!
University: Lansing Community College -> Michigan State University
Major: Kinesiology - Exercise Science
Overall GPA: 3.23 (LCC and MSU combined according to PTCAS...most likely BEFORE retakes)
Prereq GPA: 3.17 (LCC/MSU..pretty sure this was BEFORE my retakes...my retakes should have bumped this up quite a bit...)
MSU Final GPA (with retakes): 3.24
LCC Final GPA (with retakes): 3.45
Extra-curricular: MSU Bowling Team for a year (quit due to cost and time..lol), Pre-Physical Therapy Association (PPTA), Human Energy Research Lab (HERL).
Volunteer: 60+ hours Outpatient Orthopedic, ~20 hours Outpatient Neuro, ~20 Inpatient Acute, 240 hour internship Inpatient Orthopedic. ~340 total hours.
GRE: 480 Verbal 630 Quat. 4 Writing
Applied: GVSU, CMU, OU, WSU, AU, Northwestern, UM - Flint
Interviewed:Andrews University
Alternate List: Northwestern
Acceptances: Andrews University
Still Waiting: UM Flint, WSU
Rejections: GVSU, CMU, OU
