PA School Application Tips
We’ve started a series of articles called PA School Application Tips, and the aim is to collect the best strategies, hints, and practices for increasing your chances of acceptance to PA school.
Here’s an in-progress list of them so you can quickly jump to what interests you the most. New articles will be added as they’re published.
Tip #0: Have a Game Plan
The most important tip of all, along with a list of things to plan for.
Tip #1: Show, Don’t Tell
Here we teach you how to properly share information about who you are with admissions committees, and how to avoid the most common pitfall of all. Useful when writing your application essay (narrative), and when interviewing.
Tip#2: Protect Your GPA
Strong academic performance is a crucial ingredient in a strong PA school application. This tip tells you why, and how to avoid GPA mishaps.
Tip#3: Think Big
Thinking small never won a baseball game, and there’s plenty to learn from that fact. Here we delve into how you need to think big to have a successful PA school application, and give you some steps to help you start doing it.
Tip #4: Get Great Health Care Experience
Keep checking back for more PA school application tips!
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I will be starting PA school in the Fall of 2012! If you want more information about the application and interview process you can read my application story. I am not a traditional PA school applicant, I had no hands on patient care experience. To all pre-PA students: it is important to focus on getting good grades especially in prerequisite courses.
I love this website, thank you for putting all of this information together! I am taking the pre-reqs to apply to PA school next year and have a background in politics, so it’s a big switch for me! My schedule is very intense, and about to get more so when I finish my CNA course and find a job to build my HCE. I was wondering if you might have an opinion about an opportunity I have to be a research assistant on a psychology experiment. Will that experience be a beneficial thing to have as I apply to programs? Just wondering if it’s worth my time! Thanks.
Do it if it interests you, but I wouldn’t do it to improve your app. If anything, it will show that you are curious and well rounded. The only exception might be if you’re planning to work in psychiatry. Then it could be helpful.