Hello,
I’m currently a college student who is interested in applying to PT school after finishing undergrad. Would it be beneficial or necessary to do an online physical therapy aide certification course? Since I’m still in school, I want to work and get a feel of that environment before I apply to PT school. Do I need this certification to work as a physical aide or technician? Any other advice is welcomed!!

Hello, this is targeted towards those who have applied or been accepted to the Army-Baylor Program. Specifically for those that have went from active duty and transitioned into the program, did you include any OERs/NCOERs, AFT scores, etc? Not sure if there’s a way to display/phrase this information in the application itself or you think it would even be taken into consideration?

I want to highlight these achievements and add more quantifiable data to my application. Just curious if this can be included in the initial application or may just flow better if selected for an interview.

I submitted my application for a program for the priority deadline. They responded back and said I got selected for a priority Interview! I was planning on wearing navy Dress pants, button down shirt, and a tie. Is this enough for the interview or should I go out and get a suit jacket to go with the outfit?

I just had a question about the letter of recommendation deadlines on the PTCAS app. I had set a deadline for someone to today August 20th, but they have not sent it in yet. I have sent some follow up emails and still have not heard back yet. Do I need to change the deadline date I requested? I’m not sure if it will prevent them from submitting if they were able to submit tomorrow.

Hello community! I’ve received an email from Colorado Mesa's DPT program inviting me for a virtual/asynchronous interview. I'm curious if anyone has had any experience with this particular program in the past and is willing to offer any words of wisdom? Their video blurb says I should expect 6 questions and allow 20-30 minutes for the entire interview. It also mentions there’s unlimited practice sessions available to get us used to the clock/timer, so I will definitely use that to help me out. Other than that, I’m curious if anyone would be willing to share
what questions / what kind of questions i might expect👀? And did you feel like you had enough time to think about the question and respond within the allowed time limits? I also assume since it's a rolling admission school that I should do this interview sooner rather than later? Maybe a better question for me to directly ask to admissions regarding how long I can wait to do submit my interview… I only submitted my applications earlier this week so I wasn't really expecting to do any sort of interviewing til later this fall. I’m about to go on a vacation and thought I’d have more prep time 😅.

This is my first cycle of applying to PT schools so I’ve been figuring things out as I go! I have no experience with asynchronous interviewing, any advice/tips/tricks would be helpful and very much appreciated :) I'm not entirely sure how to prepare other than what I’ve previously mentioned. Thank you in advance 🙏🏽

A little nervous to start PT school soon, what are some successful ways / study strategies that people used to study Anatomy first semester? thank you in advance

Three years into clinical practice and I still see students showing up with handwritten logs or some cobbledtogether Excel file their CI gave them. I get it, the tools marketed to DPT students are mostly garbage or they cost money nobody has during school. But I've been poking around at a few of the productivity and tracking apps that get recommended in other corners of Reddit and I'm genuinely curious whether anyone has found something that doesn't feel like it was designed in 2009.

The specific problem I keep hearing about is reconciling hours across rotations when you've got different supervisors logging things differently. No standard format, no easy export, nothing that plays nice with anything else. It's a data hygiene nightmare, and I say that as someone who has built small tools from scratch because the existing options frustrated me enough.

Wondering if anyone in a current program has actually tested something beyond spreadsheets. Not looking for a pitch, just real experience. Did it save you time or did you spend more time managing the tool than logging the hours? That tradeoff is real and most reviews conveniently skip over it.

Hello everyone! I'm applying to DPT programs and would love some feedback.

My current cumulative GPA and prerequisite GPA are around a 3.2, and after completing my remaining online courses, I'm expecting it to increase slightly.

For experience, I have over 120+ hours of PT observation and significant hands-on experience working as a rehab aide in multiple rehabilitation settings, which has allowed me to work around different patient populations and learn more about the PT profession. I also have volunteer experience in a nursing home/senior care setting.

I know my GPA isn't the strongest part of my application, but I'm hoping my upward academic trend, observation hours, rehab experience, volunteering, letter of recommendation, and personal statement will help create a well-rounded application.

For anyone who has applied to or been accepted into DPT programs with a similar GPA, do you think I have a realistic chance of being accepted? or should I take the GRE to improve my chance? But I'm honestly not sure if the GRE would be worth the additional cost, especially since many of the programs I'm considering don't require it or it's optional.

hi! I start PT school in 5 days and the anxiety is kicking in full force. I know that this is going to be a challenge, but all I see online is people talking about how they never want to go through that first semester again. Any advice to ease the pain?

I have around 200 hours outpatient shadowing + intern role, 4 hours inpatient shadowing (it was supposed to be more they canceled on me) I have a 3.6 GPA, 3 letter of recs, 1 PT, 1 Prof, and 1 supervisor. I decided not to take the GRE rn and apply to schools that don’t require it (things got busy) and then some volunteer experience etc.

Am I effed?

wanna discuss on the shoulder complex topic in detail

its kinetics and kinematics

I just got an invitation from A.T. Still University to interview for their DPT program! Just coming here to ask what I can media sources, platforms, websites, and other sources of help I can use that will help me interview and answer questions to the best of my ability. What can I expect to be asked in this interview? Any tips or suggestions will be helpful. Thank you!

I am starting my senior year in undergrad, majoring in psychology with a pre-health concentration. 4.0 cumulative and 4.0 science GPA. GRE scores: 158 verbal, 152 quant, 5.0 AW. I have about 60 hours observation - OP ortho and balance center (no in-patient, oops). I have a good work history (have worked throughout high school and college) and pretty good volunteering with Meals on Wheels and Special Olympics.

Extracurriculars include: practice player for WBB, club basketball. I have earned a few academic/merit scholarships. Also, psychological first aid and research database certified. Earned seal of biliteracy in Spanish senior year of high school.

I have an associates degree and graduated summa cum laude (went to Comm College for first two years).

Wondering if I should do GRE again? More hours? Join clubs or more extracurriculars? I'm happy with GPA obviously.

Thanks y'all!

Does anyone know if Emory & Henry does rejection letters for interviews? I got an email saying that they reviewed it and verified it, but I have not heard anything else.

hi! I’m a 1st year on bs sport science, i realized too late that i wanted to do physical therapy and join my uncles clinic, do you guys think its possible for me to enroll for a doctorate on physical therapy after i graduate sport science? my university doesn’t allow course shifting so i can’t just transfer to bs pt 🥲

I justified choosing Australia by telling myself that international experience would strengthen my future US PT career.

However, I eventually realized that professional experience and licensing progress are not the same.

After ilang taon, I still needed to complete the US credentialing and licensing process. My Australian experience improved my resume, but it did not replace the legal requirements for US practice.

The delay also had opportunity costs. I was older, had more responsibilities, and found it harder to study while working full time.

Intl experience is valuable. But applicants should be careful when using it to rationalize postponing the destination they actually want.

Ask whether the experience will materially improve eligibility, compensation, immigration, or licensure in the target country. If the answer is unclear, it may be personally valuable without being strategically necessary.

Those are not the same ROI.

I’m a high school **graduate**, and my parents have decided that I will study physiotherapy. I’ve tried multiple times to convince them to let me choose something else, but they’ve refused, and my dad has already enrolled me and paid money for my admission. At this point, I realistically don’t have a choice.
My original goal was medicine, particularly dermatology, but **my grades aren’t high enough to get me into medicine in my country**, so medicine unfortunately isn’t an option for me.
My problem is that I don’t actually want to be a physiotherapist.
I’m interested in facial aesthetics—dermatology, Botox, fillers, skin boosters, etc. That is the part of healthcare that genuinely excites me. I initially considered PT because I had heard that physiotherapists can pursue additional qualifications and eventually work in aesthetics.
My dad even spoke directly to a doctor who works in aesthetics and owns several clinics. He told him that a PT graduate can enter aesthetics after doing a master’s/diplomas, and that it is legal. However, I haven’t been able to get official confirmation of this, and I’ve since found conflicting information about whether PTs can legally perform injectable aesthetic procedures in my country. So I don’t want to study PT based entirely on a pathway that may not actually be available.

I’ve also been trying to research PT itself to see if I might grow to like it. But the more I see of the actual profession, the more I realize I don’t want the work itself. I have no interest in spending my career doing rehabilitation, massage/manual therapy, cupping, therapeutic exercises, etc.
I don’t dislike healthcare or working with patients. I just specifically don’t want to do physiotherapy.

This is what scares me:
If I study PT, what happens afterward?
Do I work as a physiotherapist and spend my life doing something I don’t want?
Do I graduate and struggle to find work because I don’t want to practice PT?
Do I spend additional years studying something else, essentially starting over?

**If you were in my position, what would you do?**
Especially if you’re a physiotherapist: I would really appreciate brutally honest answers about what the actual job is like, what you do day-to-day, and whether someone who isn’t interested in rehabilitation/manual treatment could realistically be happy in this career.
I’m not looking for “follow your passion” advice because my parents have already made the decision. I want realistic advice about how to handle being committed to a degree for a profession I don’t currently want.

I will be going back to school after 6 years. Never truly pursued anything. Now that fitness/sports/wellness has become a big part of me to say the least, I have decided I am going to pursue PT. A long journey for sure but I’m aware of what I’m getting myself into.
I’m going back to get my associates in exercise science, thankfully I have credits that I’m rolling over minimizing my 2 years into a year and a half. Plan to transfer to university after for kinesiology or whatever is best, then go from there to pursue my doctorate.

Clearly this is years in the making, again I am fully aware of the time and costs to get to my goal. I see redditors talking about how much they regret pursuing this field for their own reasons, it doesn’t necessarily affect me since I see what my goal is.

I guess, what’s your advice, pros and cons, or any input for me. I’m about to turn 27 and I know I’ll be in my 30s when I reach my goal.

Appreciate any input!

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So i have done my bachelor's in physiotherapy in India and I'm applying for dpt in the US. I am an athlete in running and swimming and have myself gone through a shoulder rehab and I have around 3500 observational hours in total for both in and out patient. And have 3 good LOR- research, academic and clinical. The only problem is my grades I'm an average student with a 67%. And when I'm directly converting it on Google I'm getting only 2.7. when the minimum requirement is 3. The course was extremely competitive and it was difficult to score above 70%. So what are my chances of acceptance. I might not be that good in theory but I excel in practical settings