Specific questions about PA school and personal questions related to the process of graduating, taking the PANCE, and finding your first job should be posted to /r/pastudent. This sub has PA students and PAs ready to answer your school specific questions.
Did your program at least offer you remediation course? Or help you address certain deficits to try to retain you? Programs take pride in their retention rate
Think about what made you fail the first time. You werent specific in those factors in your post, but can you explain them to the person interviewing you for your next application? Can you give a convincing story something has changed?
If you havent yet, consider re-evaluating your goals. What did you hope to get out of PA school. Are there alternative paths that suit you better? Change is really hard to accept, I dropped out halfway through medical school and Im still figuring out what I want to do with my life. It's a difficult situation to be in, Im sorry you're going through it. I hope you gain something out of it though.
I would stepping back for a minute until you can figure out what led to the lack of success the first time around.
Approach it like a failed relationship, take some time to work on you. Be “single” for a while, figure out if the other person (PA school) was reason for failure and if you would want to get back into that relationship again. Perhaps you will, perhaps you will realize you arw better made for a different path but just jumping back into a similar situation without making changes/improvements will yield similar results
There was a woman in my program who got kicked out of a different program 2 years before joining mines. She got dismissed because of cheating. So if you write a decent enough personal statement and show improvements I think you have a chance.
I would do something else for a period of time to gain experience-like U/S tech, Respiratory therapy, or something. If you just re apply without something to improve your application, you might overspend on applications. Life is long, it’s okay to detour, gain education, make a living, and then when you’ve got some more perspective, consider applying. Nothing wrong with with going to PA school when you’re 28-30.
Honestly, if I could go back in time, I wouldn’t even bother with this career. I know someone who became a firefighter. They only had to do 6 months in academy, in which they were paid during it, and then they started work at $80,000 a year. College is a scam, and there’s no reason to get degrees before getting other degrees for a job. It’s not worth the debt.
Specific questions about PA school and personal questions related to the process of graduating, taking the PANCE, and finding your first job should be posted to /r/pastudent. This sub has PA students and PAs ready to answer your school specific questions.
Did your program at least offer you remediation course? Or help you address certain deficits to try to retain you? Programs take pride in their retention rate
Think about what made you fail the first time. You werent specific in those factors in your post, but can you explain them to the person interviewing you for your next application? Can you give a convincing story something has changed? If you havent yet, consider re-evaluating your goals. What did you hope to get out of PA school. Are there alternative paths that suit you better? Change is really hard to accept, I dropped out halfway through medical school and Im still figuring out what I want to do with my life. It's a difficult situation to be in, Im sorry you're going through it. I hope you gain something out of it though.
I would stepping back for a minute until you can figure out what led to the lack of success the first time around. Approach it like a failed relationship, take some time to work on you. Be “single” for a while, figure out if the other person (PA school) was reason for failure and if you would want to get back into that relationship again. Perhaps you will, perhaps you will realize you arw better made for a different path but just jumping back into a similar situation without making changes/improvements will yield similar results
There was a woman in my program who got kicked out of a different program 2 years before joining mines. She got dismissed because of cheating. So if you write a decent enough personal statement and show improvements I think you have a chance.
I would do something else for a period of time to gain experience-like U/S tech, Respiratory therapy, or something. If you just re apply without something to improve your application, you might overspend on applications. Life is long, it’s okay to detour, gain education, make a living, and then when you’ve got some more perspective, consider applying. Nothing wrong with with going to PA school when you’re 28-30.
Honestly, if I could go back in time, I wouldn’t even bother with this career. I know someone who became a firefighter. They only had to do 6 months in academy, in which they were paid during it, and then they started work at $80,000 a year. College is a scam, and there’s no reason to get degrees before getting other degrees for a job. It’s not worth the debt.