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316. How To Apply To Physical Therapy (or PTA) School | Pre PT Chat Live

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The minimum is a 3.0, but the average accepted GPA is around 3.4 to 3.5.

1. Pre-PT Grind's episode 316, a live 'Pre-PT Chat' of about 58 minutes, walks through how to apply to physical therapy school and PTA school. 2. Host Casey is a physical therapist and co-founder of Pre-PT Grind and Cash in Class University, and he takes live questions from TikTok and YouTube viewers such as Sean. 3. Casey frames the main segment as 'real simple, real easy, no fluff,' a list of the hard steps, and points viewers to acceptanceguides.com for a written version. 4. The PT school steps run from enrolling in a community college or university and declaring any major to the prerequisites: anatomy, biology, physics and chemistry (each 1 and 2), statistics, psychology, human development, medical terminology, and English. 5. For GPA, Casey says the cutoff is usually about 3.0 but the average accepted GPA is 3.4 to 3.5, and the remaining steps are essays, letters, observation hours, a bachelor's degree, a PTCAS profile, an interview, and a deposit. 6. The PTA path requires high school or a GED, prerequisites such as anatomy, physics, communications, and math, a 2.5 to 3.0 minimum GPA, and a 3.2 to 3.4 average accepted GPA, with applications filed on each school's website. 7. Earlier segments cover a News Medical Life Sciences article on nerve stimulation plus PT for arm and hand recovery after stroke, where Casey cites a patient whose function returned within three or four visits of electrical stimulation, and a six-question soleus quiz that ends with the tibial artery. 8. In the Q&A, Casey says PT schools do not favor a Harvard anatomy class over a community college one ('If you got an A, you got an A'), and he advises choosing the easiest major. 9. He says a sports PT career depends on knowing the people who hire for teams, a pediatric oncology PT career starts with a general pediatric job, and he describes his own rejection and gap year before PT school. 10. Pre-PT and pre-PTA students planning applications will get the most from this episode.

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