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And I mean, I know I told you guys my story on how I chose what PA school was right for me. But I found like there's this really good website, you guys. It is. That is like, I wish I had seen this website when I was looking because I think I would have like saved myself a lot of trouble because I literally had to type into Google like PA schools. I went to CASPA. I saw all of the list of PA schools. Then I would click on the PA school and then have to be transferred to their website to see everything that they required, all of their prerequisites, all of their healthcare hours, all of their shadowing, everything that they required. I needed to see that on their particular website. But there is another website doing that. But that website, you guys, golden. It is like your one stop shop to getting information for PA school. So I'm going to show you guys it here. So you guys can just get a better understanding of what exactly I'm talking about, right? So here we go PAEA.org. And so you, what you can do is now on this website, you, as you can see, there's like all of this information here. You can choose what state you want to look for PA schools in. What degrees do they offer? I don't know if schools still offer bachelor's degrees for the PA profession. But if you put like bachelors, it means like it's a bridge program. So you'll be able to just go straight from high school into PA school, get your bachelors and your masters all at the same time. So that's what that whole degree offered is because I think it says like associate bachelors. I don't think they offer an associate's degree anymore and masters, right? CASPA member, like are you a CASPA member? Do you need to be a CASPA member? I believe all schools like for the most part require you to go through CASPA. So, but you can put in that information, GRE, health care experience, like how many hours, right? So, and do you require health care experience? Of course, the schools that are straight into PA school or straight into your undergraduate program from high school won't require any true health care experience. And so those are the schools that will come up. But let me stop talking about it. Let me just show you guys exactly what I'm talking about, okay? So here we have it. I'm going to choose a school. Let's say, let's see what state, what state should I go to you guys? Let's go to, let's go to Kansas. I've never been to Kansas. Let's go to Kansas. Are there any schools in Kansas? Let's see. I'm going to just throw Kansas in there and then see. Search programs. There's one school in Kansas. So if you live in Kansas, you can go to Wichita State University. That is the one school in Kansas. It has continuing accreditation. So it is well established, which is a good thing. But what states are near to Kansas? I think like St. Louis, right? Missouri. So let's go to Missouri because you want to like have a broad scope, right? Of all the schools that you could possibly go to. All right. Look, you guys, there are four more PA programs in Missouri. There are two that are provisional, meaning that they just started. There's now starting up you guys. So that is good for you who want to get in, may require a little less pre, you know, like requirements for you to actually get in. This, these are the schools for you. Stevens College and the University of Missouri, Kansas City. So those are like perfect options. Now let's go to a state that I know has like a bajillion PA schools, right? We're going to go to California because it's huge and it has, I know it has a lot of PA schools. So let's see. PA schools in California, it has 16 programs. Now, mind you, there's like what, 232 programs. And then there are like a whole bunch more that are developing you guys. So 16 programs in one state, that's a lot. So let's now show you overall GPA, right? Like minimum, it says minimum of 2.5 or higher. What? Like no minute. Let's go with no minimum GPA. I doubt any. Oh, two schools show up. Oh my gosh, two schools show up, you guys. So that's good. There are two schools that don't require a minimum GPA. One is provisional, one is continuing. Maybe that one that's continuing is a bridge program where you can go straight from high school to PA school, because rarely, like super, super rarely do any schools not require a minimum GPA. They usually like, even if it's the 2.0, they're required minimum GPA. So that I don't know about that one. Let's see about GRE because not everybody requires the GRE. So GRE not required. Let's see. Oh, they're 13 programs you guys. So yeah, some schools you can do your MCAT. So if you were trying to do medicine prior, like I was, and you took your MCAT, you can use your MCAT scores, or they don't require GRE at all. So now like let's go in, like let's go into Loma Linda and see what they're talking about, right? So Loma Linda, here we have their stuff about veterans, international applicants. Not every school allows international students to apply. That is something. So if you are an international student, you have to only look at schools that require, allow international students to apply. So Loma Linda allows international students to apply because it says international students accepted. So definitely that might be a school that you should go ahead and apply to. Look at your application deadline. When is it due? When do you need to have it submitted by your verified CASPA application? This is all useful information. And where is it? All consolidated right here on PAEA.org for you guys, okay? Healthcare experience, 2,000 hours. That is a lot of hours. So if you don't have those hours or you're not even close to having those hours, now you have the opportunity to work towards it. You can now figure out, okay, well, what exactly do I need to do to get these 2,000 hours in? Minimum GPA. So they don't, they don't have one for your prerequisites, which some schools do, but their, your overall GPA should be a 3.0 and your science GPA should also be a 3.0. Let's see what else they require. All right. So these are some courses, obviously these courses they look highly upon. All of these courses are required with the checks. You need an upper and lower level anatomy, biology, chemistry, physiology. You need English, you need math, they say algebra, but I'm pretty sure like even if you were to do like, well, I guess you should call like I'm sitting up here. I'm pretty sure if you could do, if you did like calculus, that would work because it's an upper division, but hey, they're saying algebra and then sociology. But do you see that you guys? All of that information right there for you guys, ready, right there at your fingertips. Like let's go to another one, just one more, and then we will wrap this video up, but let's go to, what state should I go to? Let's go to, let's go to Hawaii. Is there anything in Hawaii? I don't know. Let's put no on that. No, there's no programs in Hawaii, but there are jobs in Hawaii. So if you want to work in Hawaii, you're fine if you've already gotten your C at the end of your PA. Let's go to Jersey. We went on the West Coast, we're going to go on the East Coast, right? So what schools are in Jersey? There are five programs in Jersey. One is developing, it's not accredited, that's Keen University, and then it tells you who's on probation. So, you know, you see Monmouth, I hope I'm saying that right, University is on provisionary status, and then the others are continuing their edgy, their provisional, their accreditation. So we have Rutgers here. I'm going to go to Rutgers and see what they require. Their duration is 34 months. They have a class capacity of 50 students. That's really good. That's not like too big, it's not too small, it's pretty average size PA class, so that's pretty good. They said that going part-time is an option. Wow. Hey, you guys, the seat deposit is only 700, some schools require 1500, some schools require 1000, some schools say 500. So looking at all of this information is important to making the best decision for what school you want to apply to or go to as well. So look at how much it costs. If you're a resident in New Jersey, it costs $70,848, but if you're a non-resident, $106,384. So all of that plays a role. You guys, like how much money are you spending or willing to spend to go to PA school? Overall, GPA, so this one is higher than Loma Linda's. This one is 3.2. So if you don't meet that minimum GPA, don't apply because you're going to get denied, right? And then now let's look at their requirements. So they have biology, chemistry, just general and organic, then they have English and statistics. Now, I would definitely go and look at their website. Like even after you've gone here, I would definitely go and look at their website just to make sure that all of the information that I'm seeing here is actually accurate and has not been updated on Rutgers' website, but it just hasn't been updated here. Okay? So definitely go and cross-reference that, but you can have a list of the schools that you want to go to just from going to PAEA.org and everything is there at your fingertips. So I hope that this was helpful, you guys. Like to me, I absolutely wish that I had this in my mind or I knew about this when I was trying to apply to PAEA school because it would have made my life so much easier. It would have just been a whole lot less running around, a whole lot less going from website to website to website to try to figure out what are their prerequisites, requirements, what do I have that they require or what do I don't have that they require? What do I need to do? Like all of these questions swimming in my head and I would have had them answered had I just gone to that website. So if you have not gotten that information yet, again, it is hope this was helpful. I hope you guys are a little bit more at ease on how to choose the correct PAEA school for you. And if you have any questions, go ahead and leave them in the comment section below. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram at adonnathepa and subscribe if you haven't already done so. Thank you guys so much for watching. I will talk to you guys later.