Physical Therapy?

<p>Hey, I'm considering majoring in physical therapy, and Northeastern is one of the few schools that has the major (in the Bouv</p>

<p>Go here:
<a href="http://www.bouve.neu.edu/programs/pt/index.php%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.bouve.neu.edu/programs/pt/index.php&lt;/a>
As far as competitive to get in, go to <a href="http://www.neu.edu%5B/url%5D"&gt;www.neu.edu&lt;/a> and look at the student profile in the admissions sections...compare your stats to their typical......also read the post in this forum on this years admissions, the acceptance rate was around 44% and the EA acceptance rate around 40% with lots of students deferred to regular admission..Northeastern is becoming increasingly competitive, particularly in the majors like this one that are not offered at every school.</p>

<p>Hi!
You're in luck...NU PT major here! I work for admissions as well so I know probably TOO much about the program hahaha
Bouve is definately for undergrads, as is the PT program. At a lot of schools what you'll see is that you've got to apply into a different major or as undecided for your first two years and then apply into the PT program in your third year. At NU, we don't do that...which was one of the main reasons I chose NU over UCONN, Quinnipiac, and BU. At Northeastern, you'll be put directly into the PT program as a freshman. This way, you'll be taking classes geared toward your major right away.
Bouve is one of the six 'colleges' located within the University--all of which are located right on the main campus. It covers all of our health-related majors including physical therapy, nursing, pharmacy, speech and language pathology, medical laboratory science, exercise physiology, pathways (health science undecided) and more. So needless to say, there are PLENTY of students enrolled in Bouve.
This is definately not to say that you won't be interacting with students in other colleges. When you hear them talk about colleges within the university think of it more like, "divisions" or.."categories"--everybody goes to the same university..but the different categories of majors are divided up into categories that we call colleges. Confusing, I know, coming out of high school when people talking about different colleges are talking about different locations altogether! Don't worry! :)
Bouve is one of the more competitive colleges on campus, and PT is one of the more competitive majors--(both as far as admissions AND as far as once you're already in.) For exact statistics and numbers check the website or better yet call admissions and ask to speak to an admissions counselor. They can help you with anything statistic related!
I also urge you to take a campus tour and ASK QUESTIONS. Really, us tour guides have pretty much heard every question in the book--so don't be shy! We'll either answer them or just tell you we don't know. :)</p>

<p>Other Northeastern PT info that might be helpful:</p>

<p>Co-ops: you may have heard that at NU you can coop between 0 and 3 times before you graduate. You may have heard that if you don't co-op you can graduate in 4 years, and if you do then it takes 5. Well, not so true for a PT kid. As a PT major, you'll be at NU for 6 years including all but your freshman summer--no matter what. Looking on the bright side, you'll graduate in 6 years with a doctorate. You're REQUIRED to do 2 co-ops, and your entire class within the major (for example...PT majors who will graduate in 2010) will co-op at the same time. (also different from most other majors).</p>

<p>If you have any other questions feel free to post them here. If i don't respond right away---i will eventually, promise!</p>

<p>cupcake...casn u major in physical therapy and do premed at da same time??</p>

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<p>Actually, you probably wouldn't want to go for PT and premed at the same time... even if you could, which i doubt is possible. The PT program is really intense. you are in classes for 6 years and that includes all the summers except the one after your freshman year as well as two 6 month co-ops and 1 clinical. By the time you graduate from the program you have a doctorate--but you really don't have time to take any other classes. your schedule is basically set in stone from the time you are a freshman.
A good major for somebody who would like to go pre-med is medical laboratory science..or basically anything other than PT or pharmacy, because those programs really don't allow the flexibility.
Don't get me wrong--you MIGHT be able to do it, but i'm in my third year as a PT student here and I dont know anybody who has even tried.
Hope that's helpful, sorry it took forever!</p>

<p>thanx for the post...well can u just major in physical therapy but not actually do the program??</p>

<p>For pre-med, I would go with Bio. Northeastern has a very strong biology department.</p>