What's UNIQUE About YOU as a PA School Applicant
Channel: Boris Temkin, PA-C
Date: 2022-03-04

About halfway through PA school I started helping people edit their CASPA essays. At first it was just for fun, and just to help people out. Eventually, demand for my help exceeded my supply of free time, so I had to start charging a small fee to reduce that demand. With time and repetition, that fee slowly went up, and I also added services such as mock interviews. This turned into a small (tiny) business that I ran during PA school, getting to help people reach their dreams, and also making a little bit of money to help pay for rent and Air Bnb's during my clinical year. Since I've graduated, I haven't talked about PA school as much on this channel, but I have continued to help people get in. 

The other day, I had a pre-PA counseling session with a pre-PA applicant who I thought was amazing. This person had a good GPA, thousands of very solid patient care experience (PCE) hours, and spoke 4 languages fluently. Why am I telling you about this particular student? Because they told me they didn't focus on their language abilities or some other amazing things that made them a very unique and desirable applicant because they didn't think they were important. I want to use this video to show you that these things are very important! Everyone who gets into PA school has excellent grades and a lot of high quality PCE hours, those are pre-requisites. But these unique things: where you grew up, what's happened in your life, what struggles have you overcome, what can you do that most people can't do, etc., these are what make you stand out in your CASPA application and make the selection committees say "I want to meet that person, let's send them an interview invite." And of course that's what you want.

So it's been a while since I've made a video about getting into PA school. But I thought this was very important and worth talking about. 
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My name is Boris, I'm a Board-Certified Physician Assistant (PA-C)

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Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfJH-JZ8yhg&t=1s to watch a video about my journey to PA school. Taking myself from a completely non-competitive applicant with a 2.9 GPA and 0 patient care experience hours to becoming the kind of applicant PA schools were excited to admit to their program.

Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pJ1SHiMgiqQ to watch a video about how to get into PA school with a low GPA

Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqaAB8FZ_9o&t=275s to watch a video in which I interview the director of admissions for my PA school, where she shares amazing tips about your CASPA personal statement, interviewing for physician assistant (PA) school, and much much more!

Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yMRlxRWWp7I to watch a video where I describe teach you the fundamentals of studying, which is something you will really need if you want to become competitive enough to get into PA school and then survive in PA school, graduate, and pass your PANCE!

Click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EOwV_O1CAc to watch a video where I describe several options to go to PA school for FREE!!!!

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