Reinvention Redux --OR-- Rowdy Remixed

Back in 2009 I applied for Physician Assistant school up at the University of Utah for the 2010 school year. I was interviewed and wait-listed. So I made it to the list of 50 people out of 900. Just didn't make it to the final 40....

We all know what happened to me in 2010 and 2011. In other words I would of had to drop out. And that would have been worse than not making it at all...

Now that I am 68 days out of the hospital I've already been scheming and plotting how to get back to PA school. And this time maximize my chances of getting in!

And the plan goes like this, shadow a PA I know for some more hours. Get my reference letters from two PA's and one MD, different than my references last time when it was 2 doctors and one NP. Then in the summer take microbiology at whatever school I can most easily get scheduled into and a GRE prep class to ace the exam.

Finally in fall if I have to take organic chem or biochemistry and Maybe just one semester of A&P (anatomy and physiology). Just to prove I still know my stuff and am ready for graduate level work.

This all means I would apply in fall of this year for admission in August of next year. And as there is no PA program in San Diego county I am gonna have to live away from home for two years. So I'm limiting myself to the western US. Actually I made an excell spread sheet that ranks all 22 PA school in the western states to my differing criteria.

I can rank schools based on 1.distance (closer is better) 2.if the GRE is required or not (no is better) 3.how many classes if any I'd need to take to meet entrance requirements (none or the less the better).

Without giving too much away a rough list of possible schools, in no particular order, is this:

University of Washington, MedEx Seattle Washington
University of Southern California, Keck Los Angeles (Alhambra)
Loma Linda duh, Loma Linda California
Red Rocks CC, Denver Colorado
Stanford School of Med, Palo Alto California
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque
San Joaquin Valley College, Visalia California
University of Colorado Anschutz, Denver Colorado
UC Davis, Davis California
Western University of Health Sciences, Pomona California

Wish me luck!