 Okay, so I hope you guys are excited because we are gearing up for Casper to officially open up at the end of this month, April 29th. And so that means that many of you are figuring out what your stats are. And with respect to those stats, what are like the best stats that will help you get into PA school. And so I was asked the question about what my stats were that helped me get into PA school. And so that is what I'm going to be answering in today's video. Welcome back to my channel. Thank you so much for joining me today. If you're new to my channel, take a look around. If you like what you see, you like the vibe that I'm giving off, go ahead and subscribe. And hit that notification bell so you can know exactly when I put a new video out. But I wanted to answer this question. It was posed to me by one of you all. It was posed by Nicole Vincente. And she said, hi, I'm not sure if you did a video of this yet, but could you share your stats that got you into PA school? Thank you. Happy Easter, by the way. So Nicole, no, I did not necessarily do a video like, oh, these are my stats. That's what I guess this video is. I've talked about my various different stats in other videos pertaining to various different things, but this video is, I guess, more concentrated. So I will definitely hit those stats for you. And I want to put a disclaimer like, again, this is Adana's stats. You know, this is me. This is not like the end all be all. This is not like, oh, if you hit these benchmarks, you're going to absolutely get into PA school. Because be mindful that there are people that got into PA school with stats way higher than mine. There are people that did not get into PA school with stats way higher than mine. And then the obvious opposite is in reverse as well. There are people that got into PA school with stats lower than mine and then people that got into PA school or did not get into PA school with stats lower than mine as well. So this is just, kind of, my benchmark, but you can absolutely take it and look at it. it and see kind of maybe where you may fall and if there are things that you want to improve on go right ahead and do so okay. So when it comes to your stats there are about like five three to five various different things that you want to kind of focus in on those are like the tangible things that you can change and adjust as you're going through your application cycle. Now obviously when I'm doing my consultation sessions these are kind of the things that I hone in on because these are the areas that you can actually see movement and change right. When we're talking about personal statement and stuff like that obviously yes you can go ahead and adjust that and I did my I adjusted my personal statement I don't know like three or four times throughout this process and I think that I made it better but the tangible things like the numbers that you can count like your GRE score your GPA your shadowing hours and your direct patient care experience hours those are the things that you want to kind of make those various different adjustments so those are things that I'm going to touch on okay. Alright so for me I'm going to start with shadowing and for shadowing I shadowed about 20 days at this one particular hospital it was all mainly like surgical PAs that I was shadowing across different subspecialties and I did this for 20 days from like August to October various different days in those three months and I had a total of about eight hours and so for in in totality of my shadowing experience I got 160 hours why did I get so many hours because I wanted to see all the various different subspecialties that I could see to get a very like kind of good idea of what I wanted to do with respect to like oh did I like OBGYN and C sections or did I like vascular and them like doing BKAs or AKAs that kind of stuff like below the knee amputations or above the knee amputations that's kind of what I wanted to make sure that I had a good grasp on and also that was the area that I kind of got in and so like when it comes to shadow you get in where you fit in okay right now there's not a lot of like in-person shadowing that's why you know websites that get this university and other people on Instagram and things like that we're doing like these online shadowing I guess symposiums for you all so that you can get an idea of what various different PAs do in different fields but for me I got into that hospital so I insured that I was in there so 160 shadowing hours checked that's what I wanted and I felt like that was more than sufficient enough for for me and where I was at and I wanted a little bit more hours because I felt like you know maybe I was like lacking a little bit in some other areas so I wanted to ensure like hey you know like I did all of these hours and these health care hours and that kind of stuff so now going on to my health care or my direct patient care experience hours or PC so for those I had 1700 hours now I had 1700 hours like tangible like as a you know home health aid and then CNA there were some other hours like where I was literally just kind of like a sitter type of thing and for that you know schools didn't necessarily like look highly upon that so I just kind of put them in my health care experience hours but insured that my 1700 hours that I had for direct patient care experience was like highlighted because I felt like that was like a lot obviously I was in an A&P class with some other students that were trying to get into PA school and they had like 5000 and 6000 hours like they were working for years and in health care but specifically where they were getting direct hands-on patient care experience and so I was like man like I don't know if my 1700 hours is going to cut it but it did so again case in point don't necessarily take like what somebody else's hours and what their stats are to dictate how you're going to get into PA school okay my next thing I'll go to is my GPA so for me I wanted to boost my GPA I told you guys that early on like my overall GPA was like a 3.3 or something along the lines of that my science GPA was like a 2.99 initially and so I took only pretty much science courses and got straight A's and all of them and I was able to boost my GPA up to my overall GPA being a 3.54 and my science GPA was like a 3.3 around there like a little bit higher maybe 3.31 but it was a 3.3 and I remember those specifically because I was like yes finally like I'm over the 3.0 mark I'm well into the threes I'm kind of right there on the average cusp and so that for me was really like a extreme effect that I like you know accomplished because ultimately I was like literally taking maybe like a whole year of school of undergrad all over again to boost those scores and that is what I chose to do I did not want to do like a post back I did not necessarily want to do another master's I felt like it was a waste of time and a waste of the money that I didn't necessarily have so I wanted to ensure that I can get these things done at my own pace which I did most of these classes over summer school or in some type of like hybrid form because I had just had like a baby as well so that is that ultimately the last and like I guess it's not necessarily the most important important but GPA and GRE are I think the two most important things that you want to ensure that you're getting and for me my GRE score which I already talked to you guys about was a 3.22 now I studied hard I did a lot a lot of studying for that last month like pushed myself did it as if it was my job and you know my scores reflected that I have a GP a GRE video that I talk about and it like kind of shows you exactly like the picture of my scores so you guys can go check that video out it talks about like how an average student can get a high GRE score so if you're interested in that go check that video out but that was my score there are people that got like 330s and got 305s and still got in I think if you are like above a 300 you're kind of you're sitting pretty decent if you're above like a 310 315 if you're in a 320s you're sitting very nice and I feel like that helped with my GPA not necessarily being like a 373839 and you know my hours not being like five thousand four thousand hours so those are my stats let's go from again 160 hours of shadowing I had 1700 hours of direct patient care experience at an overall GPA of 3.5 a science GPA of 3.3 and a GRE score of 322 so those were down a stats hopefully you know you can do better than me and also get into PA school but that's what I did and hopefully it gives some of you guys comfort as well because maybe your stats are higher than mine and if your stats are lower than mine still hopefully it gives you comfort because there are people that get in with lower stats and you still have time to kind of make things improve right you're still in the spring semester so there are still courses that you may be waiting for and there's still lots of hours that you're still able to get alright thank you guys so much for watching thank you so much for 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