Reading about your daughter’s profile and EC pursuits, I wondered whether this program might be of interest: Recreational Therapy: Pre-Occupational Therapy | Slippery Rock University Slippery Rock stands out in adaptive sports (and also offers a minor in Adapted Physical Activity, if the RT major doesn’t appeal), so students can get great experience in that area. (SRU also partners with the Wounded Warrior Project: SRU partners with the Wounded Warrior Project to provide adaptive sports opportunities for injured veterans | Slippery Rock University* ) And since the program here is structured to cover the prereqs for the OT grad program, it should also cover many or most of the bases for pre-PT or pre-PA… but RT+OT could be a great combo for her interests. And if she decided against going straight to grad school, she’d have an employable credential with the RT degree (more so than a bio or kinesiology major that doesn’t confer a professional credential). Athletics at SRU are D2, and there are many club and intramural opportunities as well.
Misericordia could be a good place to browse programs. They have a great array of health-related undergrad majors, including nursing, and they also have PT, OT, and PA grad programs.
There are lots of options. An undergrad RN program certainly does set one up to be very employable, but nursing isn’t for everyone, and working in health care is unfortunately not going to get any easier in the foreseeable future.