My daughter just got her DPT at BU, undergrad in exercise science at UDel (they have a top DPT program too). She was a 3 sport varsity athlete (xc/winter track/spring track), a competitive Irish dancer, and spent a ton of time in PT herself. She shadowed PT in high school. She could never have a desk job, very into fitness (running a marathon next month). She really didn’t want the bodily fluids of nursing (although obviously she deals with some - works at a hospital which she found she loved during clinicals). She got into a couple of direct admit 3 x 3 programs but decided against it just in case she wanted to change paths (she didn’t but wanted to go to a different university for grad school in a city). She graduated with a 3.9 gpa and was accepted at every DPT program she applied to. After graduation she had job offers the next week (pretty nice salary). She’s very happy with how things worked out. Keep in mind that early lab science courses tend to be weed-outs, my daughter had only one B in HS and freaked out a bit before realizing they were all on the chemistry struggle bus and she just needed to dedicate most of her time to studying it.
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