 What's up, you guys? It's Adana. Welcome back to my channel. So this channel is completely like for the most part based on how to get into PA school, you know, my journey through PA school, all of the various different nitty-gritty stats, some GPA, personal statement, all of those things to help you get into PA school. But who really gets into PA school? That is the question that we're going to be answering today. Hey, I wonder if you've had time to look into the gap in time slash age between undergrad and PA school applicants. The typical undergrad is 22-ish, but the typical PA student accepted is 25 to 27 depending on the school. Can we discuss? Yes, we can. A video validating the upper 20s people may have may help with advice or conversation on the good and bad of taking time between undergrad and PA school. And this is something that people genuinely generally want to know, like, should I take a gap year? You know, like, am I too old for PA school? I've done videos on this in the past. So if you haven't seen any of those videos, kind of just go ahead and look at my search bar and you can search for those videos. But these are questions that we all as pre-PAs would typically have depending on our age, depending on where we're at in this pre-PA journey. But Lauren is absolutely correct. The typical age of somebody graduating from undergrad is like 21-22. You're graduating around that time. But really when people are starting PA school, the average PA student is about 25 and that there's a lot that goes into consideration with that. But I just want to show it to you like for yourself with your own eyes, you can see exactly what I'm talking about. So this is the PA EA program report. So PA EA is the educational body of the physician assistants. They're the ones that do some of our exams and things like that. They help, they help kind of like navigate like what PA education should look like. And so they do a report at school or program report each year. And this is the one from the 2019-2020 cycle. And so they actually surveyed about 229 schools, which is roughly like 92 or so percent of the schools that were in actually like available. I think there was, there's over like 300 programs, but you know, 229 is a good sample size. And of that is about 10, a little over 10,000 students. And so we can actually just do, I did the math on that for you all just so you can see. So about 10,000 divided by 229. That's about 43 students a program. Okay. And that's, I mean, I think that's pretty average. And my school had 30 students. They were working their way up to 45. I think anywhere from like 30 to 45 is the average amount of students that a class of school will admit for their cohort. There are some schools that admit more and there are schools that admit less like 25, but that is around the average. Okay. And so in that, we have this, the score report here. And I just kind of want to take this down to who exactly kind of gets in, right? So they talk about payment and location and all of those various different things, but let's talk about who gets in, like what are the statistics on the actual student? All right. So let me pull this up to you for you guys. So here we are a section for where it talks about the students. So you have all of these, this information here about like what the student will look like in terms of enrollment, like how many are first year and versus second year students only versus versus first, second and third year students. And we're looking at all of these standard deviations and all of that number. But I really want to look specifically at some of these numbers here in terms of the, the capacity and the actual demographics of the students. Okay. So it talks about who takes what, right? So we have the CASPER tests coming up, making its way on this and there's about 2% of the programs are requiring that obviously that's kicking up. And so if you don't know about CASPER, I will be making a video on that as well. But you see the majority of students, the majority of schools are still requiring the GRE and that's 57.7% of programs are still requiring the GRE for admission. So that is something that you really need to think about because with over 300 programs, if you want to make yourself the best applicant or a broad applicant, then you might want to take the GRE. Okay. So that's the average score is 153 for verbal reasoning and 152 for quantitative. So when and 4.1 for analytical. So essentially 153 for both. So when you're looking at that, that's 306. So when I tell you, like, I think that you should be shooting for a 305, you know, I'm not wrong in that because for the most part, these are the stats that students are coming in with, you know, schools want you in that 300 brackets. So if you're not hitting that, then you might want to think, okay, do I need to get another study prep? Do I need to do a little bit more? And I really, you guys, you know, I know a lot of you listen to me kind of like a podcast like while you're driving, you just kind of put my YouTube video on, but I want you to take the time to kind of stop and look at some of these stats that I'm talking about because I want you guys to cut. I want this to sink in for you all that this is what the information is all about. Okay. All right. So we're talking about patient care experience, health care experience, community service, and you see again, like between like the minimum amount versus the maximum amount. Now, obviously, like that is like huge 25,000 hours. Like that's a lot. Okay, but let's look at what that median or that that mid range is. And it's about 3000 for patient care experience. 3000 hours. Now that is a lot, you guys. That's a lot of hours. And so when you're thinking, oh, 500, you know, or a thousand, you might be a little bit below average. And so you want to make sure that you're setting yourself up for the opportunity to really get into PA school. You want to be part of these statistics because you want to get in. So you have to bump up some of those hours. Okay. Now, obviously, this is one of the reasons why the average age of the PA student is 25 between your 25 and your 27 because you have to take time to get these hours. You know, you're not going to be typically someone's not going to come out of undergrad with over 3000 hours of direct patient care experience. So you're going to be either taking a year or two to work in the field full time and get some of those hours or maybe three or maybe four or five for these people that are coming in with 25,000 hours. Okay. So let's look at the demographics. I spoke about this a little while ago that the majority of the PA school students are females versus male. It says about 72.2% are female versus the 26.4%. Let me just zoom in right there for you that are male. Okay. The average is about the mean is 73.8 versus 26.3. So that's just something that you might want to look into or think about. You know, we have a little bit of an upper hand as females. Like it's the healthcare is very highly like female driven, especially when it comes to like nursing and and PA school and and NP school. And so fellas, you may have a little bit more ground to cat to cover, but also you can look at this as a benefit to you because they may need more males in the program or they want to admit more males because as a patient, you want to see somebody that looks like you often, you know, like my husband, he wants to go and see like a male doctor or a male PA, although he's fine. Seeing females, it's just a more of a comfort level. And so that's something that you may be able to use as your advantage. Okay. Um, so we're talking about ethnicity here and this is where, you know, like my heart falls a little bit because when you're looking at these percentages of students in terms of ethnicity, you know, minorities are kind of falling short here. And I think that that's definitely something that we need to address. We need a little bit more diversity. Well, a lot more diversity in healthcare in general, but especially in the PA field, because that's where I'm at. Okay, but for Hispanic, Latino or Spanish in origin, it's about 7.6% non Hispanic. It's 83.7%. Okay. Uh, when you're going now down to where they break it down by race. Uh, so American Indian or Alaska, it's 0.5%. Uh, Asian is 9.9%. Uh, black or African American is 3.9%. There are people who identify as multiracial. That's 2.1%. White is 69.4%. Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander is 1.6. And then there are other races or other people who identify as other and or unknown and they make up about 13.5% of the student population. Okay. And so again, looking at some of these stats, you may think, oh my gosh, I'm a little bit discouraged because, you know, I maybe you fall in the 3.9%. Um, it was like 3.4% when I applied. So we're, we're kicking things up a little bit, but maybe you fall in, in that, in that realm and you're like, man, like my, my chances of getting in are so low, but no, these are things that you can use again as your advantage. You use this as a strength. You say, you know what, um, I believe that there should be diversity and that's why I'm here to fill that spot. I really want to, um, be there for people in my culture and in my race, uh, be that sounding board for them, be that voice for them that they may not necessarily have with somebody that doesn't look like them and that is something that you really should keep in mind. Um, these are all things that you want to look at, but here we are with respect to the age. Okay. So here we go again. Average age of first year student 25.2%. So the median is 25%. The mean is 25.2. The average age of the youngest, um, matriculate is 21.1, um, and those may be, again, people that comes to either direct entry or you're coming in, uh, as a bridge program and then average age of the oldest matriculate is 39.4%. And so that is like really cool and that's key because for my older, my more mature, um, individuals that are trying to get into PA school, if you're in your mid to late 20s, um, or early 30s, even 40s, you can see that there's a place for you. Um, you know, people are getting into PA school at all ages. The average age is 25, but again, that will probably even kick up, uh, because, you know, people are using this opportunity to not only get extra healthcare experience hours, but they're turning to the PA profession as a second career, which is what it was meant to be. And so for all of those that you, you may feel a little bit discouraged, please do not feel discouraged because there is absolutely a place for you. Um, if you are trying to get your C, I really want you guys to do something for me. Please go to get that C University. Um, because we are trying to feature, we want to feature PA students, pre-PA students that are trying to get their C on our Instagram page. So go on over to get that C University at Instagram DM us and you'll, you'll give us like a short little bio in a picture because there's a place for you. Okay. And we definitely want to be able to tell your story. So again, that these are some good stats. You can go to PAEA.online.org. I believe it is. Um, I'll put it up here for you guys just to make sure that I get it correctly. But where you will be able to see this program report, you can go through and look at the stats, look at GRE scores and all of those various different things that you guys asked me questions on so that you can see exactly where you stand and where you may want to get to to be, you know, part of this average student or, or closer to the mean or median average of what's going on with respect to the applicants that are admitted into PAEA school because when you're looking at over 28,000 applicants and, um, you know, 10,000 are getting admitted or 8,000 might be getting admitted. You want to make sure that you're, you're part of that, that 30 or so percent of students that are going to be getting admitted into PAEA school. Okay. So just keep that in mind. Um, hopefully you guys like this information. Please go ahead and subscribe. If you haven't already done so like this video, follow me on Instagram at a down in the PA. Don't forget to DM get that's the university, your bio and your picture for a feature and I will talk to you guys next time.