Utica University PT

Hello everyone! PTCAS stands for the Physical Therapist Centralized Application System. This system is used by many physical therapy schools across the country, Utica University included. When I was applying for graduate school last summer, I used PTCAS. This makes applications a lot easier by organizing all of your applications onto one site. For the most part, physical therapy schools need to know the same general information about each of their applicants. Using the physical therapist centralized application system allows you as the applicant to enter a lot of this information one time and apply it to a number of applications for a lot of different schools. When I found out that Utica University uses PTCAS for their applications, I was very happy because this made my life much easier. I was able to enter my general information onto my PTCAS  account and then just type up short essays and other questions that were specific to each school that I applied for. On the physical therap...

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Hi all! For this post, I want to talk a little bit about what the process of getting prepared for applying to PT school is like. This is a very big decision to make and it is super important to give yourself adequate time to prepare for everything it takes to apply. Physical therapy is a doctorate level degree, so it is very competitive and generally involves applicants who all were very successful and strive for greatness. Although this is awesome we've got so many like-minded, hard working people heading for a career in the PT field, when it comes to applying, this can be very intimidating.  My number one tip for the process of preparing for a PT school application is START EARLY. Sometimes it’s hard for people as freshmen to think of 4 years from now and how actions now will be thought of when it comes around to applying. Heck, even juniors might have trouble wrapping their minds around starting graduate school in a year or 2. I know how hard it is to think of grad school in und...

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Hi readers! I first would like to introduce myself. My name is Maryanne Lazore and I am a first year physical therapy student at Utica University. I grew up in a small town in Upstate New York called Altmar, only an hour from campus here in Utica! I earned my bachelor’s degree in health sciences at Utica University (at that time, Utica College) and now I’m sticking around to earn my Doctorate in Physical Therapy. I am currently in the fall semester of my first year of the program and am a graduate assistant in the graduate admissions office where I have the opportunity to help new students get to know UU’s PT program a little better! In this blog, my goal is to help those who are looking at PT programs and would like to know what Utica University’s program is like on a deeper, more detailed level! I am open to any questions anyone may have regarding UU’s program and would love to help solidify a big decision, like deciding on a graduate school, for someone who’s going through that proc...