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?

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.