Senior Semester

[MJHUSKERS]

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For those of you that have been accepted to PT schools next summer/fall, have you found it hard to study for your classes?

I'm just curious if you guys think it's ok to let go a little the last semester. Meaning, just getting above a 3.0 and maybe deans list, but not killing yourself for the 4.0.

How are you guys handling your last semester after already being accepted?

 

[vapt]

I'm lurking hard due to all the snow days. Whoopee! I actually am trying not to slack too hard- I think that I have trained my self to constantly have high expectations. I'll admit that it is kind of difficult some days knowing that I've been accepted to a program, especially since I just got my BS, and I'm only taking pre-req's (a&p II, chem II, phys II). One thing to keep in mind is that the better your overall gpa, the more chances you have at scholarships. I already received a scholarship app. from a school I may be going to, and it helped my mindset out for trying to keep up my gpa this semester.

 

[MJHUSKERS]

Well yea, if I were still taking pre-req's such as Anatomy&Physiology...I wouldn't "slack" at all. However, I finished all my pre-reqs last last year and am now only taking courses that I am required to take to graduate. For example, I needed a biology elective with a lab, so I was in a way forced into taking ornithology (study of birds)! I'm better off studying A&P or medical terminology.

 

[FLsurferDPT]

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[johncronejr]

I have maintained a high gpa for 3 years. I don't see the point in letting something like that slide at the very end. Sure, if I was already accepted to my school of choice there may be no actual need to finish strong, by I wouldn't feel good about it personally. I would feel like I let up at the end of a race. I used to be a competitive powerlifter and trained very hard for competitions. At a few meets I had 1st place in the bag before I ever made my last lift. I suppose I could have just passed, or chosen a lighter weight and finished out easy....BUT, what does that prove to me? Forget about everyone else, how I feel about it matters to me. I would choose to finish strong. I didn't want to be the guy that explained a lower total by saying "well I already had the win so I just went light". Just like I wouldn't want to explain my academic decline with "well I was already accepted so I just took it easy the last semester".

 

[MJHUSKERS]

Yeah, I know how you feel. I seem to not be able to let go of the fact that I want great grades. However, I'm going to enjoy my semester more than others and participate more outside of the classroom with events and sports. It's all about the long haul, I'm in it to win the war, not just the battle. More to life than living in the books.