Hey all!
I'm currently in the middle of my last year at college (at the University of Colorado Boulder) and I'm unsure of what to take in the spring. I am a slightly nontraditional applicant in the sense that I will graduate with a degree in Environmental Studies and a minor in Geography, I realized my interest in PT pretty late but made the switch and am almost done with my prerequisites. That said, between getting injured and needing to get surgery, working, and taking heavy course loads (20 credits) the last few semesters I'm getting pretty burned out. After this semester (fall '23) I will need to take one biology lab and two psychology classes to finish fulfilling the required prerequisites and graduate. My initial plan was to take the biology lab, psych classes, and then also biomechanics and exercise physiology in the spring before I graduate, but I'm not sure if adding exercise physiology and biomechanics is worth it anymore. The programs I am most interested in (CU Anschutz, Regis, OSU Bend) don't explicitly require those two classes, and I'm not sure if I have the motivation/energy to take another 18 credit semester and do well. My stats as of right now are:
total cumulative undergraduate GPA: 3.7
prerequisite specific gpa: 3.89-3.91 depending on school
shadowing hours: 76 in outpatient (pt aide) and have plans to complete ~40 inpatient in the spring
Would it be better to focus more on rounding out my application (getting more hours in different settings) instead of taking exercise physiology and biomechanics? I'm not sure how important/helpful it is to have those classes on my transcript. I don't want to have just the bare minimum, but I'm also not sure if that matters.
I appreciate anyone who read all that, good luck to everyone who applied/is applying this current cycle!
I'm currently in the middle of my last year at college (at the University of Colorado Boulder) and I'm unsure of what to take in the spring. I am a slightly nontraditional applicant in the sense that I will graduate with a degree in Environmental Studies and a minor in Geography, I realized my interest in PT pretty late but made the switch and am almost done with my prerequisites. That said, between getting injured and needing to get surgery, working, and taking heavy course loads (20 credits) the last few semesters I'm getting pretty burned out. After this semester (fall '23) I will need to take one biology lab and two psychology classes to finish fulfilling the required prerequisites and graduate. My initial plan was to take the biology lab, psych classes, and then also biomechanics and exercise physiology in the spring before I graduate, but I'm not sure if adding exercise physiology and biomechanics is worth it anymore. The programs I am most interested in (CU Anschutz, Regis, OSU Bend) don't explicitly require those two classes, and I'm not sure if I have the motivation/energy to take another 18 credit semester and do well. My stats as of right now are:
total cumulative undergraduate GPA: 3.7
prerequisite specific gpa: 3.89-3.91 depending on school
shadowing hours: 76 in outpatient (pt aide) and have plans to complete ~40 inpatient in the spring
Would it be better to focus more on rounding out my application (getting more hours in different settings) instead of taking exercise physiology and biomechanics? I'm not sure how important/helpful it is to have those classes on my transcript. I don't want to have just the bare minimum, but I'm also not sure if that matters.
I appreciate anyone who read all that, good luck to everyone who applied/is applying this current cycle!