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PA school
MILON,
I graduated in 1988, things have changed a bit since then. But, my daughter will follow in my footsteps. Here's where we started this past spring. We have three PA schools in state so there was no need to go out of state. We selected one school (the one I graduated from) and went there for a campus visit. That was the best thing we could have done. We learned a lot. The one thing I learned that made other staging decisions much easier was, 92% of the current graduating PA class metriculated from in state schools. We learned about admission requirements, contact hours needed, GPA's, SAT's GRE's. The crux here is, try and target a school and find out what their requirements are and work on building your "resume" to make yourself irresistable. PA school is very competative; they can afford to be very selective. You want to rise to the top of the pile every time. Another helpful tidbit is to make yourself known and keep your face/name one their minds with letters, phone calls and campus visits. They not only want to see that you have it on paper (high scores) they want to know if you have persistance. They want to see citizens. They don't want just book geeks. They want to see people that are a bit more worldly that have done some things for humanity; maybe volunteer work, missions, things like that. These are the things I picked up at the one school we visited. I'm sure this audiance has some current or former faculty members that are better informed. It'a a great profession, you can't go wrong IMHO.
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