PA Applicants
I really wish PA schools were what they used to be. Sorry undergraduate students, but you haven’t put in the time to be getting into PA school yet. I’m not sure why PA schools have decided to follow the medical school route with just accepting high GPA with low PCE. People who have put in years into medicine with average-low GPA’s deserve it more than low PCE high GPA applicants. PCE should be the main indicator of who is ready for the next step, as they are familiar with the stress and oddities that medicine can bring. If you have a high GPA, great, you’re smart. However, if you have less than 1000 PCE hours, then you have no idea what a career in medicine looks like. I just wish that PA schools would go back to how they originally valued these things.