Tuesday, April 3, 2012

Bump in the road to PA

A few bumps in the PA school road. It isn't helpful to try and make decisions after sleeping angry, restricting calories in my diet and dealing with a broken garage door.

-no community colleges are offering summer course in microbiology or anatomy and physiology. they claim budget issues. all community colleges in CA are effected and are offering only minimal classes for people already in a program.

-ucsd has summer sessions that are great time wise, but do not offer any of the classes i need/want.

-sdsu has a "maybe" for the classes i need, but they start at the time i had planned a two week vacation in norway and israel. on further checking, they have a second summer session that starts july 9th. registration is may 3rd, but i leave on may 28th for vacation. not a good time window to gamble but i think i'm gonna try it as i really don't want to take online classes.

-the clearing house that does all the applications for all of your schools need them by october. and course work in process is rarely counted, so going fall term does not help me at all in applying this year.

I need to ace the GRE. I need to focus only on schools where I meet their entry requirements now. And the places I hopefully get asked to interview, I need to dazzle their freaking pants off. As it appears I will not be able to bolster my academic credentials in time to be accepted into a program starting summer of 2013.

Basically it comes down to the fact that I need to take just one class this summer and I'm going to have to take in online if I still want to do the other things I have planned this summer. Yeah microbiology. I didn't want to take an online class at all, but now I really have no choice.

This is my second attempt at PA school. If this year doesn't yield success I am going to choose something different entirely!

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