 Alright so there are many of us who have not had the best undergrad GPA and I mean I don't want to take anything away from anybody that may have had a lower GPA than me but I consider myself among those ranks. Like I didn't have the best undergraduate GPA for a PA school I would say. I was hovering right above a 3.0, maybe like a 3.2ish somewhere around there I can't remember we have to go back to some other videos to talk about that but for PA school that wasn't hitting for me because you know I didn't have like that many health care experience hours and my initial personal statement was trash and so for those of us that may fall into that realm we're like okay well what do we do I want to be a PA I want to get into the PA school how can I do that well this video is for you. So again I had a question posed by one of you lovely subscribers so if you haven't already done so go ahead and subscribe to my channel it says this one is from Victoria Davino and she said if you have an undergrad GPA of 2.5 but then a cumulative of post grad science course has taken all good grades cumulative is 3.1 what should I do go back and get another bachelor's how can I increase my drunk undergrad mess ups lol. Alright Victoria I mean I honestly I feel for you you know I know what it's like to not do your best I guess because you're just undergrad is like supposed to be fun like you know not everybody is like man I want to just be in these books and although I was kind of like in the middle I was a little bit lukewarm that affected me getting into PA school a lot sooner than I could have possibly gotten in and so I feel your pain I feel your your your desire to figure out what you're going to do and so for me I had to kind of resolve this in myself and I think that that is something that you will have to do as well what is it that you're looking for and everybody we all need to think about this okay like let's be realistic with things like what am I trying to get into PA school are my stats like these are some questions that you're gonna have to ask when am I trying to get in are my stats where they need to be what am I willing to do to get into PA school so Victoria sitting up here contemplating do I get another bachelor's degree for me that wasn't an option if I already had a bachelor's degree I'm not going to get another bachelor's degree that's just not an option for me so I'd be like okay do I get a master's degree or do I do a post-bac and that is something that I was seriously contemplating I went to undergrad specifically for medicine more so to be an OBGYN I had a family I've told you guys this story I've realized that you know I didn't want to spend too much time away from my family I love my family and so I wanted to ensure that I could still do what I really wanted to do which was take care of people while at the same time taking care of my family and so for that I was like okay I want to be a PA but how can I go about doing this because what I'm at with my GPA and my science GPA and my health care experience hours is not really where it's at so I had to do a serious reevaluation and I looked at doing a master's degree program and like some one of these like I think it was like hematology it was like a clinical scientist master's degree and I was really really close to doing that you guys because I got an amazing scholarship offer and I was like okay all right this makes this a little bit more palatable I'm not gonna have to spend too much money out of pocket I'll come out with a master's degree and then at the end of the day I'll be able to now apply to PA school because I know I'm gonna kill this master's degree I had every intention of doing extremely well in that and I'll be able to get a job at get health care experience hours at the same time be a PA be applying to PA school and I looked at that seriously and I was like all right well what is this time like lying like okay is it going to be two years is it gonna be three years the degree that I was going to do was a little over a year like 18 months or so a year and a half I would get my degree if I can go on to do other things or add other like certificates to that if I wanted while working and then yeah at the same time apply to PA school but more went into that I had to find living arrangements it was way out of state I didn't know anybody like family wise in that state although I had lived there previously I would literally have to like uproot my whole family and move to the state simply for a bridge and for me that didn't make sense you know it didn't make sense for me to now do a master's degree only as a bridge to get into PA school because I there there were so many other things that I had to pay for and do with my life that I couldn't do that now Victoria on the other hand maybe you're like single you maybe let's say you live at home with your parents and then that may be something that you're able to do and if it is do it whatever it is that you're able to do to get yourself into PA school or that most closer to PA school absolutely do it if you can be realistic with yourself and you're like you know what I remember subscribing to Donna's channel and she said think realistically what is my plan what am I going to do then absolutely say all right you know I can take a gap year I can take two gap years and apply and that is some of the things that I don't think that we as pre-PA students like wanting this career so badly we don't really think about we don't think about alright you know what let me just take some time I do have some time to just relax kind of get my bearings underneath me get some patient care experience hours and get this thing done because PA school you guys I'm not I'm not I'm never gonna stop saying this PA school is competitive to get into okay it is highly competitive you have a lot of students applying to programs that are offering and an average 30 seats okay and you have thousands of students applying to this these programs so you have to make sure that you are the best version of yourself a lot of us want to be perfect we want to have the best scores and the highest but it's not always about being perfect a lot of times it's about just being the perfect you I guess you can say the best version of you if this is where you can get at this mark and this is where you're setting yourself up for this is your this is your goal and you've reached your goal then apply and do that okay so Victoria for you I don't know you have to I would need more information in terms of what where you're at in life would you get another bachelor's degree if you have already already have bachelor's degree go ahead and look for master's programs or post-bac programs that will allow you to also get the science out credit hours and your overall cumulative hours because honestly like when you're sitting out at 3.1 let's look at what your science GPA is and if that is what you were saying you're you're saying all good grades post-grad science course is taken if your science GPA is a 3.1 you still need to ensure that your overall cumulative GPA is greater than a 3.0 and that science GPA actually needs to be raised a little if you looked at my last video where I talked about the stats that PA students are getting into schools with the average student is getting when with like a 3.5 overall GPA and like a science GPA of about a 3.3 3.4 so you have to be in that range okay alright thank you guys so much for this question thank you Victoria for leaving that comment if you haven't left a comment ever on my channel take this moment right now this is your chance leave a comment for me so that I can answer your questions I do look at them you guys follow me on Instagram at adana the PA as well as on Instagram at get that C University you can check us out on get that C University now come and see what we have to offer we have a lot of things for pre-PA students to help you get into PA school and we have like quizzes and things like that for PA students to help them get through PA school okay so if you're looking for something that is a little bit more geared and focused to you get that C 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