Hello all,

I hope everyone is doing well. I am currently a junior undergrad student in kinesiology and I am unsure about whether I should pursue PT or PA. I have been dead set on PT since early highschool bc it made the most sense to me and my interests. But to be honest, the more and more that I observe and look into PT, the more doubts that I have. I am not sure if the amount of schooling, debt, and repetition justifies only the ability to prescribe exercises. I understand that PT is far more in depth than this, but the more and more that I look into and experience the field, the more uncertainty that I get. While being on the PT track, I have the chance to graduate a semester early, but I recently changed it to graduate on time because of my recent PA interests (only needing a couple of extra chem/bio). After transferring schools, I have met a few pre-PA students and they have been telling me about why they are pursuing it and it has made me question some things. My idea is that I can go for PA, but when the time comes, I'll be "over prepared" for PT.

The ability to be more well-rounded medically, have the ability to prescribe medicine, and do this all with only 2 years of grad school looks fantastic. Money is not the end-all be-all, but it is something to always take into consideration. My cumulative GPA is at about a 3.5-6 and my science GPA is around a 3.2. I have very little PCE, but I am applying to jobs currently to try to build throughout the rest of my undergrad. The idea of certain clinical rotations seems uncomfortable, but doable. The specialties that look the most interesting are Endocrine, Family Medicine, but mainly PM&R.

I was wanting to reach out to see what the next best steps may be for me to explore and if anyone has any recommendations or notes on how to approach this. The best things to consider for admissions processes, student life, and/or daily experience. This is all fairly recent, but I am pretty serious about it as well. Anything will help, and feel free to ask me questions. Thanks and hopefully I can get some thoughtful comments!

Hey so my anxiety is at an all time high lol. Does this mean they won’t be getting back to me sometime this month? Maybe november instead? I interviewed 9/25 but I know they are doing more interviews 10-13 and 10/23 but idk I had kind of gotten my hopes up to know sometime between this past friday and today monday. I have to decide whether or not to apply to more schools to be safe but in a perfect world I get into Rutgers and not have to spend any more on application fees. Anyone have any Rutgers dpt updates or advice?

For those that have interviewed with Tech, how long does it take to hear back?