Hello everyone. I'm just curious how you guys feel about PTCAS schools vs. NON-PTCAS school with regard to academic forgiveness. I have spoke to PTCAS and they don't give any academic forgiveness meaning every class taken repeat or not, gets factored into your GPA. With that said I had many things going on during my freshman and sophomore years in undergrad. I received pretty low grades in my science pre-reqs. Now I have taken all of my pre-requisite courses over and gotten a 3.9 pre-req GPA. This doesn't bring my cum GPA up enough to pass a 3.0 cum GPA. PTCAS calculates every class so my PTCAS GPA altogether is relatively low. Since most of my classes are retakes I was looking heavily into NON-PTCAS schools because they usually just take the higher grade. I heard most PTCAS school take the PTCAS calculated GPA, and discard any application that can't break 3.0 respectively. I wonder if my chances with PTCAS schools are over, and I should just try NON-PTCAS schools only. Also please let me know if there are school that look at taking the higher grades or more recent credit trends. Any NON-PTCAs schools you guys recommend? MY STATS ARE BELOW
Undergrad CUM GPA: 2.534
Re-take school CUM GPA: 3.9
Together CUM GPA: 2.729
Together Pre-req GPA: 3.75
I'm worried my cumulative will never break 3.0, and that PTCAS and NON-PTCAS schools will not overlook this even though my pre-req GPA is so high. My grade trends up to the last 90+ credits is CUM GPA. >3.0
-I have over 2500 hours spread across two outpatients clinics, and one sub-acute hospital.
-148 VERBAL GRE
-148 QUAN GRE
-3.5 WRITING
-Multiple recommendations.
I'm so passionate about physical therapy and am not giving up. Any suggestions on PTCAS, NON-PTCAS, or any general advice. Thank you !!
I am currently taking Physics II[Retake], Chem II[Retake], Medical Terminology, and English Composition II
-I tried to take a heavier course load than the two prereqs.
Undergrad CUM GPA: 2.534
Re-take school CUM GPA: 3.9
Together CUM GPA: 2.729
Together Pre-req GPA: 3.75
I'm worried my cumulative will never break 3.0, and that PTCAS and NON-PTCAS schools will not overlook this even though my pre-req GPA is so high. My grade trends up to the last 90+ credits is CUM GPA. >3.0
-I have over 2500 hours spread across two outpatients clinics, and one sub-acute hospital.
-148 VERBAL GRE
-148 QUAN GRE
-3.5 WRITING
-Multiple recommendations.
I'm so passionate about physical therapy and am not giving up. Any suggestions on PTCAS, NON-PTCAS, or any general advice. Thank you !!
I am currently taking Physics II[Retake], Chem II[Retake], Medical Terminology, and English Composition II
-I tried to take a heavier course load than the two prereqs.
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