 Hey guys my name is Boris I'm a physician assistant and for today's pre-PA Q&A where I answer pre-physician assistant questions from pre-physician assistant students I'm going to review this post in a pre-physician assistant Reddit group which when I was you know applying to PA school I found a lot of comfort and a lot of answers and because a lot of people it's like a community you know what is it like 200 I think PA schools in the country maybe 100 something all of which take between like 15 and maybe 50 students per class I think some are bigger like my student my class takes 75 I think my school takes about 75 per year but a lot of those are three plus two programs so they legitimately only have like 50 spots available every year so my point is extremely competitive lots more people are trying to apply and trying to get in and actually do get in so there is this big pre-PA community out there on Reddit on Facebook on Instagram you know on YouTube and all of that you guys are probably part of it if you're watching this video but anyway so I kind of like this group the pre-physician assistant group on Reddit and I definitely found a lot of help in it when I was a pre-physician assistant student so let me just without further ado let me just read this question so the topic is accepted low gba and this person's obviously like very very stoked which I would be absolutely so it says hello cannot believe I am accepted and they capitalize accepted I don't know if you meant to do that but it's cute that you did I have been a long-time lurker on this group and just wanted to motivate anyone who was on the same journey I was really doubting myself but hard work pays off at the end I am so grateful for this community and so excited to finally be a PA in the future give back and work with patients smiley face stats first time applicant s gba which is science gba 3.09 c gba which is cumulative gba non-science but everything all together 3.35 patient care experience at the time of application 4886 hours volunteer hours 820 shadow hours 120 and no gre applied to 18 programs accepted oh no applied to 18 programs interviewed at three accepted at one wait listed at one rejections eight not heard back seven whoa so okay first off a couple of things that stand out one they haven't heard back from seven programs so I know it seems a little bit daunting you know apply to 18 programs $120 a pop that's a lot of money to apply man not to mention you know getting your cast but verified and all the effort that it takes to apply to that many programs so it sounds kind of daunting that you apply to 18 programs and you only get into one but they have not heard back from seven so there's a chance that you know they'll maybe get another two three four seven interviews and get into two three four five seven of those programs so that's always possible so I just didn't want to discourage you with those stats those stats are not necessarily representative we also don't know much more of this person's application also other first impressions are I don't know if I would consider this person a low gpa applicant in fact yeah no I would not consider this person a low gpa applicant I'd say they're lower you know but they're definitely not low so like you little gpa of 3.35 kind of round that up to 3.4 that's pretty average am I pretty average I mean that's like on the lower end of people who actually do get in that's pretty average for people applying and that's like on the lower end of people who actually do get in and especially with 4,800 almost 4,900 hours of pce just by the stats alone the very basic stats this person is quite competitive I'd say they're you know bottom half for sure of people who get in but they're definitely quite competitive as far as their cumulative gpa and their pce their science gpa is a little weak which is kind of bringing them down but also without having like a full breakdown of their transcripts there's no way for me to know if I would consider them competitive or not because these basic numbers can tell a story or these basic numbers don't tell the whole story I don't know how many actual hard science courses they've taken I don't know how well they did in those kinds of science courses I don't know how many of these are from retakes I don't know if any of this is post back you know what I mean like there's a lot of things that go into evaluating an application that's not just these basic numbers but by these basic numbers I'm going to say that this person is actually not really a low gpa candidate or a low gpa applicant I'd say they're actually quite average if somebody had stats that were like you know science gpa 2.9 cumulative gpa like 3.0 or 3.1 or whatever I'd consider them kind of a lower gpa applicant so yeah I just kind of wanted to talk about this one particular post I'm pretty sure that it's going to give some people some value just from my experience of reviewing hundreds of these applications at this point so um and just seeing the kind of people that get in and the kind of people that do not so hopefully there was valuable to you guys just dissecting some of these hard numbers but anyway uh yeah stay tuned for the next pre-pa Q&A get your questions in either on youtube you know just comment on this video send me an email send me a message on instagram let me know what you want me to talk about and if you want my help personally of course you know how to do that more as the pa.com for my pre-pa services I will see you guys in the next video good luck to all of y'all applying to pa school