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Message: [QUOTE="sufandu, post: 4247661, member: 874"] I didn't say grad schools simply accept any undergrad as a prerequisite. For example, I took an athletic training class from a athletic trainer at SUNY Oswego. I forget what her undergrad was, but it had nothing to do with biology, healthcare, or sports. Somehow, by the end of her undergrad career she realized she wanted to be an athletic trainer. After she graduated she had to take extra prerequisite classes that pertained to athletic training and the GRE. She went to grad school and now, she's had a long career as an athletic trainer. Had she not gone to school in the first place she likely never figures that out. And I think that is even more likely the case for kids that come from socio economic backgrounds where neither parent is college educated and kids don't have the first clue of how to navigate college. And high schools do a horrible job of assisting those kids. I agree higher education is screwed up. It's all about the money. There's no reason that over the course of about 10-15 years physical therapists went from needing a a bachelors degree to a doctorate. The rhetoric was that the higher degree should command more respect from MDs. There are a number of career oriented fields that require a more advanced degree than necessary, and you need the undergrad degree before you can get the grad degree. Most people aren't doing much with an undergrad in exercise science, but that is what is used most often as a "pre-physical therapy" degree. If banks don't issue loans for them, then it's just the kids with rich moms and dads that get to go to PT school. I also think far too many kids are steered to college when they would be better served in career tracks that involve apprenticeships. There's nothing wrong with being a welder, an electrician, a plumber, a HVAC technician, etc. But there's an implication in our culture that people that do that kind of work are less than those that are white collar professionals and so I think many people stay away. You're right though, lets get back to bashing Rutgers. It's what they deserve. [/QUOTE]

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