<p>UMASS Amherst Biology
UCONN Allied Health Sciences
Eastern Connecticut State University Biology</p>
<p>Uconn was my top choice,but they put me in the Waterbury campus. Umass amherst didn't give me enough financial aid. so I am left with eastern my safety school. :(</p>
<p>Plan A
Eastern 1 year
Transfer to Uconn for the Allied health program
Two years of PA school
Become a Physician Assistant</p>
<p>Plan B ( if unable to transfer to uconn)
Eastern 4 years (Biology)
Two years of PA school</p>
<p>Can i still major in biology and become a PA? also, eastern is a liberal arts college, so does that mean they don't really focus on sciences that much? I am just confused. I mean i really kind of don't understand what liberal arts is.</p>
<p>I disagree. Compare a doctor making $100K (conservative) vs an average accountant making $50K. The Extra $50K per year pays off the $200k student loans in 4 years and the opportunity costs in another 8 or so years (could have been making $50k while in med school).</p>
<p>Also plumbing is a controlled entry profession. Getting into a union is not easy and not based on merit. Unless you have a relative in the union you can almost forget it.</p>
<p>Entry to PA programs can be any major, look at schools with PA programs and start looking at their prereqs and make sure you have these, as for others comments, they are correct my family doctor said to me “if you can see yourself doing anything else, go do that, only go into medicine if it’s something you truly want to do”</p>
<p>There’s a million other ways to make money, only go into Medicine if it interests you, whether it be PA or MD </p>
<p>Also they lumped all of medicine as having 200k debt, they didn’t reuse you’re going to be a PA which is a masters so you won’t have that much</p>
<p>LastThreeYears, every time I open a science thread, there you are badmouthing any biology or medical related major. EVERYONE out here knows your opinion by now… please stop derailing every thread that starts with a legitimate question about these fields with your comments. It is incredibly annoying and immature.</p>
<p>It is kind of shortsighted to tell everyone to go accounting/finance. But the last thing you want to do is oversaturate that market. Look at the law market right now. Lots of people flocked over there, what happened? Too many people went for their law degree’s and oversaturated it. Now, many JD graduates have over 100k in debt and no jobs. Sure accounting/finance can offer lucrative careers, such as investment banking, but do you know how quickly most get burned out? Two-Three years tops, and they’re done. Allied Health sciences might be your best choice. As long as people break bones, they’ll need x-ray’s taken. As long as babies are being born, there will be a need for ultrasound. Guaranteed, you won’t be filthy rich, but you will live decently depending on cost of living wherever you decide to live. Take it from somebody who’s gone from nothing to living it up, money truly does create more trouble and more debt which can spiral out of control.</p>
<p>I’m interested in opinions, yes even from those critical of majoring in Biology, about Physical Therapy career prospects. Apparently this is an option as a MS or DPT for Biology majors, but maybe I missed it, it seems to not get mention. Someone interested in Life Science and anatomy would seem in good position for such a graduate degree.</p>
<p>Obviously, the day to day tasks are nothing like an account’s, and has to do with fit.</p>
<p>From what I understand the MS in physical therapy is dying similar to how the MS in pharmacy did 20 years ago. The qualification for being a physical therapist is now the DPT.</p>
<p>As for the prereqs look at what the schools want and just do it.</p>
<p>Yes, you can still major in biology and apply to PA school. You can major in anything you want and apply to PA school, as long as you fulfill the pre-requisite courses for the PA schools that you are applying to. A large percentage of PA schools are Masters programs, so you’d need a bachelors in something (doesn’t have to be biology). You would also have to take the GRE. </p>
<p>Also, some schools are Bachelors programs, so you would do the pre-requisite courses for two years, then do the upper-level PA courses and clinical rotations for the last two years. Although some PA programs are Bachelors programs and others are Masters, they are all taught at about the same level of rigor, since you all have to pass the same board certification exam, the PANCE.</p>
<p>[GRE</a> = Graduate Record Examination](<a href=“http://www.ets.org/gre/]GRE”>The GRE Tests). There is a general test which is (or was) like the SAT I, and various subject tests.</p>
<p>The term liberal arts denotes a curriculum that imparts general knowledge and develops the students rational thought and intellectual capabilities, unlike the professional, vocational and technical curricula emphasizing specialization. The contemporary liberal arts comprise studying literature, languages, philosophy, history, mathematics, and science.[1]</p>
<p>In classical antiquity, the liberal arts denoted the education worthy of a free person (Latin: liber, free).[2] Contrary to popular opinion, freeborn girls were as likely to receive formal education as boys, especially during the Roman Empireunlike the lack-of-education, or purely manual/technical skills, proper to a slave.[3] The “liberal arts” or “liberal pursuits” (Latin liberalia studia) were already so called in formal education during the Roman Empire; for example, Seneca the Younger discusses liberal arts in education from a critical Stoic point of view in Moral Epistle 88.[4] The subjects that would become the standard “Liberal Arts” in Roman and Medieval times already comprised the basic curriculum in the enkuklios paideia or “education in a circle” of late Classical and Hellenistic Greece.</p>
<p>In the 5th century AD, Martianus Capella defined the seven Liberal Arts as: grammar, dialectic, rhetoric, geometry, arithmetic, astronomy, and music. In the medieval Western university, the seven liberal arts were:[5]</p>
<p>the Trivium
grammar
logic
rhetoric
the Quadrivium
arithmetic
astronomy, often called astrology; both modern senses were covered
music
geometry</p>