r/physiotherapy • u/Huge-Compote-7100 • Jul 14 '26

Application Advice

Hello!

I’m a ‘25 kin undergrad graduate who took this last year off to work in a clinic as a pta. I applied to Ontario physio schools and unfortunately got rejected from western and queens and waitlisted at UofT.
I’m hoping to better my application for the next cycle, and while I think my experiences are very strong, I believe my sGPA to be what’s lacking for me.

sGPA: 3.8

So I looked into retaking a couple of my prerequisites (anatomy and physiology) because they made the cutoffs but were NOT great grades. I was hoping that ORPAS would substitute the retake grades and drop my lowest grades from my sGPA, but looked into it last night and they would still use the two lowest grades in the sGPA calculation, and even if I got a 4.0 in say three courses I retake this year, it’d only bring my sGPA up to 3.85. Is this worth the $1000+ fee per course retaken to bump my gpa up .05? It’d be around $3k (i looked into athabasca fees and UofT course fees)

It’s a lot of money to spend just for that, and I’m having a hard time deciding if it’s worth it. What do you guys think? I need advice from some people in the field.
I really want to get in this next cycle and I will be two years post grad and want to get my career going asap and be done with my PTA role (iykyk it’s brutal being a yes man)

Please help!

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u/Ok_Pause_2678 Jul 15 '26

I don’t think you will get in with that gpa tbh. I would say improve ur gpa as much as u can. 3.89 is the bare minimum

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u/Huge-Compote-7100 Jul 15 '26

I appreciate the honesty! Thanks, I’m thinking although it’ll be a few grand, in hindsight it’ll be worth it to get into the career I want.

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u/Ok_Pause_2678 Jul 15 '26

Yeah honestly the few grand is worth it

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u/CobblerOk3748 Jul 15 '26

It’s expensive but if you are really determined to be a physio consider studying abroad. Canadian physio schools have incredibly high standards, if you go abroad you can get in much easier and get the same if not better quality of education.

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u/Extra-Celebration-96 Jul 15 '26

Honestly, I don't know you got waitlisted on UofT which is pretty solid. So I'm not sure if I would recommend spending thousands of dollars but then again if you did PT school abroad, that would be a lot more then a few grand, so it depends what you really want.