 What's up you guys? It's Madonna. So I know I'm in a new setting and that's because I have a lot going on this week with respect to my job. I'm working like I'm back to back to back to back. But that's neither here nor there. I still want to make videos for you guys and answer your questions. So I'm going to be answering the question about does it really matter what undergraduate graduate from when it comes to going to PA school. So let's get into the video right now. So I had a question posed by Amal G and I wanted to answer this question for you guys. But if you're new to my channel please go ahead take a look around. If you like what you see go ahead and subscribe. I make new videos and I post them every Sunday and Tuesday sometimes Wednesday and Monday just kind of depends on the date. But first short Sundays and Tuesdays. So come on back and check out what I have for you next week. And also before I get into the video if you are still trying to get that rush review PAQ bank for free for 365 days. That is right a full year. Please leave a comment in my comment section below. Follow both my Instagram and rush reviews Instagram because I will be posting the winner of that giveaway this evening. All right. So Amal D said hey Adana I wanted to ask does it matter what college you graduate from when getting into PA school. Like does it matter if I graduate from a big known school or is it the same as if I graduate from an all right school. Meaning that they're better than it. I mean OK. So I think that that's a good question a legit question because you know what when it comes to like your future and sometimes when it comes to like your job if you're in like a different profession you're you know if you go to like Yale or Harvard or Duke or one of the IVs it's like super prestigious and you know it's really like yes I want to get this student from that school. But when it comes to PA school it's not really like that honestly at all you know they don't really look at like oh OK like she went to Duke and she graduated from you know Brown or whatever the case maybe it's not like a snooty tooty like what to do OK. So when it comes to PA school the PA profession was created as a second career right and so a lot of the students in the past and even now are coming to this as like a second option like they've done something that they've already wanted to do and now they want to get into healthcare and be a provider and the PA profession affords them that opportunity. So you know you may not have graduated from Harvard and if you did graduate from Harvard it was like you know 10 years ago or 15 years ago for some people and so it doesn't really matter you know that doesn't hold any water when it comes to getting into PA school. What matters with PA school is what your GPA is you know from your undergrad or from the prerequisite courses that you've taken what your GRE or your PA CAT score are you know what your health care experiences and how many hours you have of that and for some schools a volunteering and shadowing kind of matters as well because they want to see that you give of yourself and also at the same time you know about the PA profession and you know exactly why you want to be a PA OK. So those are the things that matter and I just wanted to address that because I know sometimes we think like it matters in terms of like where we've gone to undergrad so let me make sure that I you know have gone to a good undergrad but if you went to like an Ivy undergrad but your GPA isn't hitting like you may have gotten like you know a 2.5 or something like that in that undergrad because you didn't really care about going to college or whatever the case may be or you may have gotten a 3.0 which is really like average like kind of like subpar kind of average when it comes to the GPA for PA school you're still going to have to retake some of those classes and boost some of your other intangibles OK. So Amal right I wanted to make sure that I was saying your name right Amal. It does not matter what undergrad you went to and what matters are those prerequisite stats and I know that this is a quick video but my husband has a saying of like the shorter the message the longer it sticks and I think that you all need to really like take this home. I really want you to take this home with you that it does not matter what Matt in terms of what undergrad you went to what matters is your prerequisite stats OK so make sure that GPA is right both science and cumulative make sure your GRE and your your PA cat whatever standardized tests your school is requiring make sure those numbers are correct make sure your hours are up there and make sure the type of experience that you have is like pretty adequate and good because that is not only going to help you get into PA school but it will help you once you've graduated from PA school and you've actually started your job depending on the specialty that you're going into OK. 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