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Hi guys. I need some opinions about the prerequisite coursework I should take before applying to the professional phase of some BS PA programs.
I will be taking the prereqs at the College of Staten Island - CUNY (CSI). Their PA program is affiliated with Harlem Hospital Center. This program has more prereqs than the other 2 I am looking at (SUNY Downstate and Pace University/Lenox Hill Hospital). For example, neither SUNY nor Pace requires physics courses; CSI/Harlem not only requires a full year of physics, but they also require advanced human anatomy and pharmacotherapeutics.
If I decide not to take the physics, adv anatomy, and pharmaco, I think that I can pull off the prereq's in 2 semesters (summer 05, fall 05, spring 06 - this means I would be done in May 2006). By taking them, I have to go for 3 semesters, and would be done in December 2006.
If I am done in May 2006, I would have applied to Downstate and Pace in Jan 2006. The Downstate program, for example, begins June 1. If I go the 3 semester route and finish in December 2006, I would apply in January of 2007 for admission in June 2007.
So...the difference here is 1 year.
Now that I have soul-searched and found that I want to be a PA, I want to get there already!
So...I am canvassing for opinions: should I take the additional courses that are not required by 2 of the 3 programs I will apply to, in an effort to "get on with the show" a whole year earlier? ...bearing in mind that going the 2 semester route will require that I take a 20 credit load in one of those semesters...
I will be taking the prereqs at the College of Staten Island - CUNY (CSI). Their PA program is affiliated with Harlem Hospital Center. This program has more prereqs than the other 2 I am looking at (SUNY Downstate and Pace University/Lenox Hill Hospital). For example, neither SUNY nor Pace requires physics courses; CSI/Harlem not only requires a full year of physics, but they also require advanced human anatomy and pharmacotherapeutics.
If I decide not to take the physics, adv anatomy, and pharmaco, I think that I can pull off the prereq's in 2 semesters (summer 05, fall 05, spring 06 - this means I would be done in May 2006). By taking them, I have to go for 3 semesters, and would be done in December 2006.
If I am done in May 2006, I would have applied to Downstate and Pace in Jan 2006. The Downstate program, for example, begins June 1. If I go the 3 semester route and finish in December 2006, I would apply in January of 2007 for admission in June 2007.
So...the difference here is 1 year.
Now that I have soul-searched and found that I want to be a PA, I want to get there already!
So...I am canvassing for opinions: should I take the additional courses that are not required by 2 of the 3 programs I will apply to, in an effort to "get on with the show" a whole year earlier? ...bearing in mind that going the 2 semester route will require that I take a 20 credit load in one of those semesters...