 I want to talk to you guys about this really cool hack that I learned when applying to PA school and I've seen some other people use it as well. I think it's kind of like a really cool way to make sure that you're doing what you need to do or you're like actually a great applicant for PA school. What's up you guys? It's Adana. Welcome back to my channel. Happy New Year's, you guys. We have made it to 2019. It is here. I am so excited you guys. We've been in this thing for over a year and a half which is so cool. So thank you so much you guys for joining me on that journey. I also want to just say like 2018 was like amazing you guys you know and 2019 is gonna be even more amazing because I'm gonna be graduating from PA school. I'm gonna be certified. I'm gonna get my first job as a PA and you guys are gonna be getting into PA school so that is what this video is about. So this is my 2019 get into PA school this year hack okay so that is what we're gonna be talking about. For those of you that are going to be applying this year you really have to make sure that you're going after this whole PA school entrance and trying to get an interview. Like it's a job or like it's what you want to do with your life because it ultimately is. I made sure that I had a spreadsheet and like just put my stats up. So for you this is my hack you guys. You guys need to start a spreadsheet with all of your stats. So you put your stats on the spreadsheet and your stats include things that you can quantify. So I'm not talking about your personal statement or anything like that you know. We're not talking about letters of recommendation. We're talking about quantifiable things. So your GPA, your GRE score, your health care hours, your shadowing hours and your patient care experience those hours. So you're gonna put all of that on your spreadsheet and you're gonna put like a little me on top of it or next to it or however you want to title it and then you're going to look at the schools that you're interested in. Now this is kind of like a PA school match I guess you could say just like how you know residencies you're matching into residency and you rank your schools from you know the schools that you're really interested in to the schools that you're not so interested in but you wouldn't mind going to them. You do the same thing with the PA schools that you're interested in and you're not so interested in. So you're gonna rank those and put them in a list and then you're gonna look at their stats. So you're gonna put up their average GPA score, their average GRE score for all of the students that they've had in the past and more specifically the past year. You know also put in their health care hours that they require and any other quantifiable thing that they require on that and then you're going to now rank them. So you're gonna see okay so if my school requires 500 health care experience hours and I have 5000 then I'm like acing that. So you can put that in green like you can have it like you rank it however you want to put it either mark it green or rank it as like a 10 because you're superseding what they need. Alright you guys so I have created a spreadsheet here for you all just to try to make this a little bit simpler for you to understand because I know that it's hard when I'm just talking about it and you can't really see what I'm talking about. So here I have what the five stats would be which is your science GPA, your GRE, your health care experience, your shadowing experience and your patient care experience. I have my supposed stats as a prospective student and then I have each school's average student stats here and so that's how you would see it going forward my stats and then the average student stats for that particular program. I decided to score this out of 10 and for me if I'm meeting the actual average requirement or what they use to what their average student has as a science GPA then I give myself a five. If I am above that I give myself anything from a five above essentially so I would give myself a six to a ten depending on how far above the general requirement or the average requirement is. So let's take a look at Truth University. Truth University their average student has a 3.5 GPA, a GRE score of 305, health care experience of a thousand hours, shadowing experience of 20 hours and then 1500 hours of patient care experience. So when I put my stats up against Truth University stats I have I'm meeting their average student score so I'm going to give myself a five. Here the GRE is 305 and I have a 304 GRE. It's only one point lower so again I'm going to give myself a five because it's pretty average. As far as health care experience goes I have 2500 hours and that particular program only requires or has an average they allow their students have an average of a thousand hours. So I'm going to give myself an eight because in 1500 hours over what their average student comes into the program with. Now again you guys this is all subjective by no means is this like the end all be all. You may have given yourself a seven or someone else may have given themselves a nine but for me I'm trying to be conservative in what I'm giving myself but at the same time not trying to be like too stringent on what I'm doing because I want to give myself a pretty accurate depiction on where I land with these particular programs. As far as shadowing experience goes it's 275 hours is what I have and then the school has an average they their students have an average of 20 hours and with patient care experience I have 500 hours and they their students have an average of 1500 hours so because I'm so low I'm giving myself a two. I'm not a five because I'm not at 1500 I'm at 500 and I'm well below 1500 so I'm going to give myself a two. When you add all of that up because again this is out of 10 each section is out of 10 when you add all of it up I have a 30 over 50 so here you see like I put it in red I highlighted it in red because I'm not really doing that well like to me a 30 out of 50 is not it's not where is that. So let's look at Faith University. Faith University their GPA for their students that they their average student is 2.5 and I have a 3.5 so I'm like I'm I'm killing the game with this I'm going to give myself a 10. Again their average student has a 285 gre and I have a 304 so again I'm going to give myself a 10. 500 hours is what their average student enters into and I have 2500 hours so I gave myself a 10. Their average student has 20 hours of shadowing experience and I have 275 hours so again I'm giving myself a 10 and then with respect to patient care experience their average student has a hundred hours and I have 500 hours so I'm going to give myself a 10. So with respect to Faith University I gave myself tens across the board I have a 50 out of 50 so I put that in green because it's highly likely that I would not only do well like they're not going to just see my application be like let me put it off to the side they're going to see this application be like oh okay so she is absolutely superseding all of the different requirements that we have let's take a second look at her let's look at her personal statement and possibly offer her an interview and I told you guys that you should always rank your schools in how well you like them like rank them from least to greatest in terms of which school you want to go to so I have faith universities ranked like that's my number one school that I want to go to then movie university is next pathologies after that truth is there so we can put our rankings here right so faith is number one movie is two pathology is three and truth is fourth on my list I guess I could have probably put it in the opposite order but nonetheless I already had this written down so I wanted to put that off for you so you can just see exactly what I'm talking about so I have them ranked here so if I'm looking at my top school that I want to go to and I'm also seeing that I'm getting a 50 out of 50 for that school then I'm doing pretty good like that is a definite school that you should apply to here truth university is a two out of 10 I scored a 30 it's not too too bad I could probably even change this to an orange maybe maybe this can be an orange school like oh you could apply to this school you don't have to so although it's it's an orange it's my least favorite school that I want to go to so I would put that on the back burner when I'm thinking about schools that I actually want to apply to when and when I want to apply to them because that is also part of the game understanding which schools to apply to what their deadlines are should I apply to this school first or this school second um and this spreadsheet will help you do that because you can see okay if I'm doing extremely well at faith I should absolutely apply to them first especially before I applied to let's say a school like truth or even pathology should I even apply to school at all it's third on my list but I am not doing well from for that school from their standpoint of their average students so with respect to that I should not apply to that school not any time soon instead what I should do is continue to work to boost some of these hours some of these areas where I'm lacking like in the patient care experience hours because again here I have 500 hours and pathology university requires 2000 hours so that is something that I can actually boost up I can boost that up the gpa is a little bit harder if you're trying to apply now you don't want to necessarily spend time retaking classes so work on things that you can raise because this one is something that's holding you way way back and these this patient care experience is going to also boost your health care experience so as this goes up this will go up but hopefully this was very um just informative hopefully this makes more sense after seeing it here but this is exactly what I'm talking about in putting your stats up the school stats up having a system on how you're going to rank yourself um knowing what that system is and then putting it across the board and then kind of putting it in color so that you can easily see all right I'm doing really good here I'm doing pretty good here not so good here at all and here I'm about average um and then you can make your decisions on when to apply to the specific schools um from this spreadsheet so guys that is my hack for 2019 to get you guys into PA school please go out and use it tell the world about it tell your friends about it everybody who wants to get into PA school in 2019 use this and tell me how it works out for you guys because I promise you it's gonna make your life so much easier when you're trying to figure out what schools to apply to and when um and what schools I should go to or or how I stack up on a particular school all right um I hope you guys have a great new year 2019 is gonna be amazing for us you guys stay focused stay motivated we are gonna kill this year I love you guys thank you guys so much for watching I will talk to you guys next time