Welcome to the White House and Merry Christmas to each and every one of you. I think back on all this started, but all I can think of right now is that I want to thank you, each one of you for your service and the Board of Advisors of the Private Sector Initiatives. I've always believed that American people would respond tenfold if only asked to get involved in their communities and lending and helping hand where it was needed. You've been an effective group in promoting this great tradition. I want to thank John Fallon for his leadership, dedication as chairman of the Board of Advisors of these past three years. John, I know you've had a few other things on your plate, but you gave this program your personal commitment and I thank you. And I also want to thank Eddie Fritz, Vice Chairman of the Board for his tireless service and assistance through the years. Eddie, I know you have also been a great support to Nancy with her drug prevention program and we both owe you a debt of gratitude for that. And now, I believe that I'm supposed to receive a report from you, John Fallon. Thank you very much, Mr. President. I think that my job really is to thank you. First of all, I would like to personally thank you for the honor and privilege of having an opportunity to chair this. And I think for so many other things that you've done during your presidency for this country, but particularly for two things that we're involved in, you certainly showed a wonderful spirit of, I think, public-private cooperation when you came to the exchange that night. And you and your people during the October 87 gave us such magnificent support and encouragement. And I can never thank you enough for that. I also want to thank you for this board. There just been a magnificent group of people. Each one of them has believed in the things that you believed in, which are the things that all Americans have believed in since the beginning of our great country. And you really have been our guiding light and our beacon. And it has been your philosophy all during public life about private sector initiatives. And I think we have taken that creed and what we're trying to do is to go out to get other people to be involved in it, to do it in a whole variety of ways. And I think that under your guidance and under your leadership, we have produced some results. We have the ball rolling because we want to keep it rolling. We look forward to working with the next administration. But I must tell you, frankly, sir, that we will solely mention that you have been our guardian angel. We have always felt that when moving out there in the field, you've been watching over us directly and through your wonderful staff under Fred Ryan and all these wonderful young people who are over there. And so I can't thank you enough. And I would like now to ask Rob Mossback just to give you a brief update on what we've been doing in recent times. Fred, I want to add my thanks as well. I've had the privilege of serving under your task force, your advisory council now on this board. And thank you again for the great leadership that you provided in this program. The report we're providing today is broken up into the five committees that have done most of the work. What I'd like to do is touch briefly on some of the high points of those committees' activities over the last three years. I'm going to go through them alphabetically. The communications, which Eddie Fritz chaired, is one that started out with the idea of using the tools of the communication business to expand the awareness of private second nations and the opportunity for people to be involved. And I think probably their top accomplishment has been the C-Flag program, which you participate in every year, which honors organizations and companies for the fine works they do, and by that recognition hopefully encourages others to do likewise. Their hope and their recommendation for the future is that we increase the number of opinion leaders from the media business that participate in any future boards or activities, and also to hopefully take the C-Flag ceremony and sort of spread it out and spin it off into a foundation which will perpetuate itself. A second committee is corporate community leadership. And Chairman, that's not with us today, George Moody, but the purpose of that group was to try and expand corporate community involvement in their communities in creative ways. We felt we could appeal to two very straightforward interests, one of them being enlightened self-interest and the other one being just to be competitive in the community. Their major accomplishment I think has been to strengthen the C-Flag ceremony and program by more creative marketing and expansion and to reach out to graduate business schools to begin to enlist young business leaders in the activity of trying to encourage business involvement in the future. We're at a very early stage of that, but their recommendation for the future would be to try and inject private sector initiatives and business involvement particularly into the curriculum of business schools around the country. So we don't grant people sort of later in life, but rather move in and grant them earlier in life and have that experience throughout their business careers. A third committee, one that I think you can be very proud of their activities is the Education Committee, and that's been chaired by Tom Evans. And Tom started out in his committee with the priority to increase awareness and to promote greater business involvement in the educational system. And this is perhaps in terms of numerical accomplishments, the most impressive increase in activity in the last five years. They've held five partnerships in education symposiums, one a year, going back to 1983. And I think the byproduct of their work is that in 1982 there were only some 42,000 partnerships in education. The latest count is there are over 140,000. So a significant increase. And obviously they hope for the future to continue the partnerships in education symposiums and continue national recognition of effective successful partnerships in this area. Fourth committee, public-private partnerships. That's the one I've had the privilege of chairing. Our charge was to highlight examples of successful creative community partnerships, something we started doing years ago, whether it's the New York City Partners Program or the Houston Committee for Private Sector Initiatives. We have tried to highlight those through a series of four regional conferences that have been White House sponsored conferences in four major cities around the country. They were held in Houston, Columbus, Ohio, San Diego, California, and the most recent one just a couple of weeks ago in Stanford, Connecticut. At these conferences we've had business leaders exchange thoughts and ideas not only about specific problems but also the structure that you can create involving the United Way and other players in the community to make maximum best use of the interest and enthusiasm people have for committing to help with the cause. The fifth committee but by no means the least important is the Volunteer Committee. And it wouldn't surprise you to know that's been chaired by George Romney who is synonymous with volunteerism in this country. George's charge and his committee has been to increase and promote volunteerism through greater recognition of great acts that people have done and by strengthening networks. And one of the things that perhaps has helped that the most in terms of the recognition is your present Volunteer Action Awards ceremony each year. That program started in 1982. You've given out now 130 of those awards and it was institutionalized in 1987 by Executive Order in 1988. The board of this board here as well as the boards of Action and Volunteer voted to create an annual perpetual award known as the Ronald Reagan Award for Volunteer Excellence. And it's given each year to the person who exhibits the special pioneering spirit of innovation that you've exhibited so beautifully throughout these eight years. Their hope for the future is to continue to raise the level of volunteerism and to raise volunteering up perhaps to the level of involvement that they've got financial giving and almost to put it on a similar plane. So we all have our work cut out for us but we're very, very proud of what we've accomplished under your leadership and thank you. Well, thank you. I just want you to know that at least we haven't mentioned this but what this has all meant to worldwide. And you probably are all aware of this figure but I was astounded not too long ago when I got the figure for cash-giving alone. Not services and material or anything but cash-giving alone. 1987 over $94 billion through the United States to volunteer giving. But I have to take a minute. I'm going to take a minute and tell you something here about this that happened in this house and why I'm so proud of what's been done now in spreading this worldwide. It was a dinner over in the White House and the wife of an ambassador to a European nation was seated beside me and this side and around the table, our table had come up a conversation about some private sector initiative, something that was being done and I heard a quiet voice to my left say, yes, but you're unique to the ambassador's wife. And I said, what do you mean?  She said all the rest of us, we turn to the government for that. Never forgotten that and then when as you say, as we all know, it's spread. Many of you participated in helping that spread to the world and now it's no longer a strange thing and every once in a while in meeting with heads of state from other countries that mention this change in their own countries. Well, I have something that has to be done here and it's a great pleasure to do it. This is presented to John J. Fallon Jr. Chairman, President's Board of Advisors and Private Sector Initiatives of Gratitude and Appreciation. I guess you know who's presenting it. We thank you again for your leadership and your guidance and we also thank you each and every one of us for the opportunity to serve. Well, I'm going to go over and stand in front of Teddy there and I hope that each one of you will combine and we can have pictures together if you need to answer my question. The Nobel Prize that Teddy won for settling the Russo-Japanese War that his family presented it thought it should be here in this room and I can't resist whenever I have to tell someone about it telling that he won it in good, solid Republican style. He was sitting on a yacht. Our best assets, Bill Cuff, is retiring. I see you have some business going with you. Yes, sir. Thank you. This is my wife. This is President. Thank you. My brother-in-law. My sister-in-law. My brother-in-law. My brother-in-law. My brother-in-law. My brother-in-law. My brother-in-law. My brother-in-law. Yes. You and I are going to step over here with the fireplace for a moment and then later you'll come to a room around here. This citation is to William F. Cuff. For exceptionally meritorious service to the White House military office as a Navy enlisted member from March 1961 to November 1973 and as a civilian from November 1973 to January 1989. During this period, Mr. Cuff has provided invaluable service and assistance in the management of Department of Defense assets under the auspices of the White House military office. The recognition of these accomplishments and on behalf of the Department of Defense is my pleasure to recognize William F. Cuff by presenting the Secretary of Defense Meritorious Civilian Service Medal assigned Frank C. Carter-G. Secretary of Defense to December 1988. So, Brian? Very much so. Well, it is also that here is the citation for you and I think the family ought to join us. I think you ladies ought to be in the middle of this. Okay, thank you. Or at least maybe one of you. Fix my own bill. Thank you, Mr. President. Well, thank you all of you. Thank you very much for all your service. If you don't drop this, it's breakable. Thank you very much. Oh, thank you very much. Thank you very much. This is your water. Thank you. Please do it again. Farewell. Thank you, Mr. President. Thank you again, Mr. President. Bye.


All right.  Um, sorry, I'm, I don't know if it's just me or if any of you guys are feeling this as well, but like, I swear, like everybody has a cold, but I don't think I have a cold. I think I have like some allergies going on because my eyes are a little bit watery, but we're going to get into this. Nova southeastern universities, PA programs. Now Nova has quite a few PA PA programs, like different sites along like Florida. And I think they have some, some other places as well. So I think it's important for you guys to figure out which school you want to attend, like which site you want to attend and then go from there. So I'm going to just Google this and while I'm Googling and you guys are coming into the room. Don't forget to leave your comments on what schools you may want to see me do next. I like this. This is actually like pretty cool. So I like looking at the programs and it keeps me up to date as I'm teaching you guys are kind of researching with you guys. It keeps me up to date on everything as well. Okay. So, all right, so there are, let me just add this. Somebody said, hey, I asked you to do this one. Oh, great. I'm glad I can do this for you. Okay, let's get into it. I'm going to share my screen with you guys. So I just need to do a little bit of housekeeping. Sorry. Let's do one more thing here. How are you guys doing? I hope everyone's doing good. I had a pretty long day. I was really tired. I worked yesterday. So I got off today. So a little exhausted. I've been ripping and running. I just got back home not too long ago. So I'm kind of excited about that. But I wanted to make sure that I could do this for you guys so that you all could get to know the various different schools that are out there. And then we can go from there. So I just want to, like I said, do a little bit of housekeeping here. Let me just this and then we will be good to go. Don't forget to follow me on Instagram and on the PA you guys and on Instagram. I get that to university. Okay. Because I post pictures and stuff on there and I try to be motivational as well. So hopefully you guys can get something from that. Okay. So let me share my screen with you. And we can get right into the school requirements. Okay. So this is Nova South Eastern University's PA program in Florida. Now, as we go over to the side here, like the first one that typically pops up is always Fort Lauderdale, which is like close to Miami area, South Florida. But there are three others. So Jacksonville, Fort Myers and Orlando. So if you want to go to any of those sites, you know, or if you live in any of those areas. And you guys, okay, like I said, I have like a little bit of allergies. So I might sneeze here and there on this, this live. So bear with me. But if you want to go to either of those different sites, you have to apply to each of them like respectively. It's not like a one stop shop. Okay. So let's look at their overview and see what they're talking about. What employers say, say, according to repeated employer feedback, Nova South Eastern University graduates are top notch. I mean, that's cool. I mean, what school is going to be like, uh, no, my, our students are top notch. Everybody's going to say that. So I think that's really good to, to know that they're, they're proud of their students. I'm looking to see if there is something about their kind of like their goals, but I don't see it yet. So they have just the like the masters in of medical science is what they're calling it. So an MMS in physician assistant studies, you can do a dual degree at one of these programs. Let's see. So you can do an MPH, which is the masters in public health and get your PA. And then you can also, this is probably for post grad. Yeah. So like post graduate stuff, you can, after you've graduated from PA school, you can come back and they have a met an emergency medicine certificate. And like the beauty of, or the reason why somebody would do that is so that if you're trying to get into emergency medicine as a new grad, it's pretty difficult. It's like one of the more higher acuity specialties to get into. And so, you know, they want either experience or you can have like a fellowship or a certificate. So they offer that. Let me just go to this tell me more page and see if it is at a specific site or if it's at all of them. Expand your PA impact in just three years. So I've told you guys that PA school can be anywhere from two years to three years. And this particular program does three years. Okay. It doesn't say which site. So I guess it's all of them. I guess it would be all of them. So let's just back up. Okay. Here, let me look at this. This I already went through that concurrent degree. I'm just trying to see if there's anything in here that specifically tells me which site. Okay. You guys and it doesn't. All right. Technical standards. You can look at that yourself. It just wants to make sure that you can actually like get the, the, the learning that they're going to be giving you as a student so that you meet those standards. So here's the Fort Lauderdale site about us. So let's look at their admission requirements. This is what you guys kind of come here for. Now this is like literally like they're asking you for you to be motivational. Like you motivate yourself. Okay. You want to have interpersonal skills be able to get along well with like your cohort and any future patients that you may see. So these are like just kind of your overall characteristic traits of the student that they're looking for. But then let's go here to the minimum cumulative GPA, which is a 3.0. And then their science GPA is also a 3.0. However, it says here, successful candidates or applicants in the past have typically had both cumulative and science GPAs of 3.4 or higher. And that's kind of becoming the norm like that an average GPA for PA schools is about a 3.5. Like I said, there are some schools that have a low, a little bit of a lower GPA requirement. And that's typically if they're like new or developing, but generally speaking, it's a 3.0 is their minimum. And then the average student typically comes with a 3.5. Okay. Coursework particularly required and recommended prerequisites completed in the recent past is deemed to be more relevant to route to the related content. Recommended courses are regarded as important. Okay. So they are CASPA participating. So you have to apply to them through CASPA. Their application fee is $50. And again, it's obviously non-refundable is typically what the case is. So complete your supplemental application by January 15th. What is their deadline? Oh, it's CASPA December 1st deadline. All right, you guys. So we have a school here that if you are interested, you can still apply to this particular program. Because their deadline is not until December 1st. Now me personally, I always say, I'm looking at the date. It's the 9th of November. It's 11, 9, 2021. Okay. I wouldn't apply to this program right now just because I think it's way too late in the game. Typically CASPA is like, oh, you want to have at least four weeks for everything to be verified before we can send it off to the schools. So I mean, this is not even giving you four weeks before December 1st. However, to each their own, you got like three weeks, maybe like two and a half weeks that you can try to put this application in for the deadline of December. I would have to go back to CASPA and we can do that at the end to see what kind of application they're at. Are they like a green level or orange level or a white level? Because if you guys remember the various different levels show you exactly how much of the application needs to be sent in by that particular deadline day. But then supplemental applications would need to be turned in essentially within a month of that application's deadline. Okay. So required semester hours in GPA. So they have semester hours requirements. What's going on? Opening up. There we go. So you need to have a bachelor's degree. Okay. They already talked about the GPA. So not really mentioning that. They are looking for college math that says statistics does not satisfy this requirement. Oh, that's interesting because a lot of schools require statistics. So if stats is not not doing this, then you need to have like an algebra or a calc. Okay. These have English, humanities, course or religion, foreign language, social sciences. So this is basically like, you know, your general education stuff, medical terminology, genetics, biochem, anatomy and physiology, both semesters, biology. Again, you just need one semester of that because it's a four semester, four semester hours, micro one semester of that. General chemistry, both semesters. They don't require organic chemistry, which is a blessing to some. They do require biochem though. If you take the combination classes of anatomy and physiology, they must be completed in the sequence by taking both one and two. Okay. Graduates from foreign institutions where English is not the primary language. So you would again have to do the test of, you know, English is like to see if you can actually like adequately attend school and understand what's being taught in English because they teach in English. But clearly it shows that, you know, they do accept international students or foreign students. What else? GRE. Let's look at what they have for the GRE. Do they give you an average? No. So they don't give you an average score, but they just kind of go through the basics that, hey, you know, you have to have it completed within the last five years. And there's their code. Now those classes that I showed you initially were the required classes for the Fort Lauderdale campus. And then there are some recommended classes, which are all the labs. I don't know why. So they recommend intro to statistics, but it doesn't satisfy the math. So just keep that in mind. Okay. And I mean, typically if you have a three credit, like biochemistry class, you'll have a one credit lab, which would, which would satisfy their four credit minimum. BLS. Do you have to be BLS certified? We no longer require proof of BLS certification. Because you're required to take it during the program, regardless of previous certification. Okay. Cool. Computer requirements. So combo DVD, like nobody has computers with like DVD players anymore. I think this needs to be updated. But this is combo DVD and RWD, sound capability and speakers, wireless capability and printer. Okay. Cool. Foreign transcripts. So again, you know, you would go through the WES or ECE. Those ones that I know a lot about this international education consultants, I've heard of them as well. So you would send them your transcript and then they would kind of like translate it to see that you've met all of the requirements that the school is asking for. Health experience. Let's look at this. What are their average hours? Do they give you says, while there's no minimum requirement, prior health care experience is highly recommended and higher consideration may be given to applicants with prior direct patient care experience. Okay. So this is a program where again, there's no minimum requirements. There's no, like there's no saying, hey, you need to have 500 hours or 200 hours. However, the more hours, the better it looks obviously is what they're saying. So if you are one of those students that may have like a thousand hours, you know, this might be a program that you might want to apply to, but you just keep in mind again, it's very competitive and students are applying with like 6,000, 10,000, 15,000 hours. I spoke to someone in a consultation session that I had that said they had 30,000 hours as an EMT because they were an EMT prior for years. This was their second career as a non-traditional student and, you know, they're coming in with a lot of hours. So just be mindful of that. And they only need two letters of recommendation is what their requirements are one from a PA and then another from a health care professional. Okay. So that is the Fort Lauderdale campus. Let's just look at their faculty and staff really quickly. Okay.  Let's look. Oh, let me see their accreditation and pants pass rate. Okay. So their pants pass rate is pretty decent. And look at this, you guys, they have a lot of students that they admit to their program like 71, 73 students here, 68 students here. So maybe they're the amount of students they admit is about they can maybe they can do up to 75. I don't know, but they have an average of about like 71, which is good because, you know, although it's still going to be very competitive at the end of the day, I have more chances of getting a seat rather than going to apply to those schools that have a 30 seat cap or 25 seat cap. So let's look at 2019 because everybody did bad in 2019, but they actually did pretty good 99% of only one student didn't pass the first time. So they did really well in comparison to the national average of 93%. So as you're looking at this, this row, they've consistently been above average. Or like right there, like, like barely under average. So actually, did you guys, can you guys see that? Can you guys see my screen? Let me show you. Let me stop sharing here and share this screen because I don't think you guys can see their pants pass rate. And I want to show you guys that for sure, because that is important. All right, so here you can see the number of students that took it from their program. And then in this, I would say third to last column, you see their pants rate versus the national average. And you can see that they're literally like right there or above average, which is which is good. So, and this is for the Fort Lauderdale campus. Okay. And like I said, each, each campus is their own kind of like their own thing. Okay, let me go back now to see. I just want to see if we have anything about their accreditation. Okay, so here in the about us section, it says the ARC accreditation has granted them continued status. Their next review is not until March of 2025. So you guys are good for another four years. Let's look at Jacksonville really quickly as well about them and their accreditation status. So are placed in over South East. Okay. So they are on probation. So they are on probationary status and you can always go to ARC's website right here. You can go to ARC's website and specifically look at why, you know, like what it is that they may need to address or fix in that program, like why they were put on probationary status. Now, something to remember or just be mindful of is that their next review is next year, September 2022. So just some things to keep in mind in terms of, you know, like moving forward and then education and all of those things, you have to keep all of that in mind. Okay. Let's look and see if their requirements are pretty much the same or if they're different. All right. So their average is a little bit slightly lower, not significantly so. And this is why I told you guys to pay attention to these things because there are little nuances for each site, even though they're all under the same umbrella. Okay.  Although they may have the same type of stuff. There are nuances that make one a little bit better than the other or vice versa, or, you know, that makes you want to go to one a little bit more than the other. And this is the same thing that you have to kind of think when you're looking at these programs. So their GPA, like their average in terms of their successful students have been 3.3 to 3.5 or higher. The Fort Lauderdale School said 3.5. Okay. Still the same with respect to nothing lower than a C. And all of these are the same. All of these requirements are all the same in terms of what they've stated before with their recommended. They also do not give you a GRE test. Oh, let me just look and see. So this is 0952. Let me look at what that Fort Lauderdale. A GRE was just so that we can. I think that one was 0592 is what I said, right? GRE 09547. Okay. So again, keep being mindful of that. The code that you would send for the GRE is also different. And let's see. Do they have pants pass rates for their program? All right. So again, let me stop. I'm going to share here. Oh, gosh, let me share this part. So this is the pants pass rate you guys for specifically the Jacksonville School. They are, they've let in about on average, I would say like 57 students in comparison to Fort Lauderdale, where it was about an average of 71. Their average in terms of their pants pass rate is a little lower than the Fort Lauderdale program. But still for the most part on par with what are, you know, the national average is 93 to 95%, 95% to 93%. Okay. So they're, they're like right there. 2018 was a good year for both of the programs. Let me just go back to the main site so you can see that just so you can see specifically what I was looking out when I was there. Requirements. Okay. And so this is all of the requirements are pretty much the same. There's little nuances here and there are 3.3 versus the 3.5 in Fort Lauderdale, but still there. Let's look at Fort Myers really quickly as well. Because like I said, there are four different sites. Admission requirements for Fort Myers. And for Myers, if you don't know, so like I lived like right outside of Fort Myers really close to Fort Myers. So that is also South Florida about like four hours, I would say four to six hours depending on like who's driving and such from Miami and Orlando, respectively. Opposite directions, obviously, right there on the Gulf of Mexico. It's really nice. But not really much to do, I would say in terms of being a young adult. So just keep that in mind as well. You're going there to study. Okay. So their admission requirements looking at this. Let's see what their GPA is. Okay. Still 3.0 required courses are still the same. And still with the recommended courses, healthcare experience, they still don't have an average amount or a minimum amount. Their application fee and their supplemental application fee will be $50. Let's look at what ARC has granted them. So Fort Myers overview. Let's see if that's in there. Okay. So they have continued accreditation through ARC their next review is not until March of 2028. So a little bit lower later than the Fort Myers than the Fort Lauderdale location, which is actually pretty good. So like you are said, if you get in your side, you don't have anything to worry about in terms of like, all right, you know, the sit for your boards or anything like that. So that's good to know. And let me take a look at their pants pass rate. So I can share that screen for you guys as well. And we are banging through this because, you know, there's four it's like this is like a four and one I'm doing four programs for you guys in one night, which is pretty cool. So this they're kind of on the same path, I would say as the Jacksonville program, where their average is about like, I would say 58 or so, they took less students in 2020 than the years prior. I don't know if that was strategic or not. And if you're looking at the pants pass rates, it's slightly lower than the national average, but for the most part kind of on par, like maybe one to 2% difference. So again, still getting the good education that you need to be a great provider in the future. So no worries there. And these are the things that you guys should always be looking at when you're looking at programs that you want to attend because you want to make sure that at the end of the day. I'm not spending the education that I need to be a good provider. So I'm not spending like hundreds of thousands of dollars, or, you know, in, in travel and education and then coming out and I'm not a good provider. So this is the Orlando location. Let's just look at the about us. I actually used to live in Orlando, you guys. Just quick little thought for you guys. And let me see if they don't here accreditation. So they have it listed out. Let's look at their accreditation. So continue to accreditation for them as well. 2024 is when their next review is. And so again, that's good to know you guys are keeping in mind all of the schools that I've mentioned so far. The only one that was on probationary status was the Jacksonville program with a review coming up on the 22nd of March. No, in 2022 of March. So just when you're applying for that in mind with this, the programs that you're trying to apply to. One thing I did not look at with these various programs is the actual tuition and fee costs. So I'm going to do that right after I go to the pants pass rate for the Orlando program and see what that looks like. So you guys can have a better understanding of that and then I'll come and answer some of your questions. OK, so if you have any questions like you can write them down now and I will answer them shortly. So their average is about 60 I would say students in terms of what they're admitting. So the Fort Lauderdale program have the most. Theirs was like in the 70s. This I would say probably has the next highest and then Jacksonville and Fort Myers were kind of on the same path. But look at this y'all like this is nice. OK, what program is this? This is the Orlando one. So for the most part, they're 100% they're 100% pass rate over the last what 123 five years. This is their five years. And then they're the only time there was any issues of 2019, which is pretty much every program like 2019 was a rough year for most schools. OK, so this actually looks good. And this shows me that at the end of this only one person didn't pass. Right to two people. All right, so first time take test takers 63 number of exams attempted 63 somebody took it again number of exams past 62 and 61. So I'd say maybe one person in pass and took it twice. Something along those lines, but 97% is what their pants pass rate was, which is again still above the average of everyone in the national national test taking because that average was 93%. OK. So yeah, that's that's good. Let me stop sharing here and I will go back to now look at the tuition and fees because that is also important. And that might play a part in like what program you want to apply to as well because if it's more expensive living in South Florida than it is in central Florida or northern Florida, then maybe you might want to go to Jacksonville or Orlando. I know Fort Myers is not that expensive. So that might be one that you want to go to as well. But you know, you might not want to do the Fort Lauderdale program because it's mad expensive. So these are all things you really need to be paying attention to. All right. So since we're here at the bottom, let's just start with the Orlando school tuition is 12,000 a year total tuition for the program is 86,000. They broken the fees down here 86154. And so there's like another screen that it kind of popped out to let me just I'll show you guys that screen as well. Let's do that. Excuse me. Share a different screen just so that you guys can see specifically that programs costs. But here's the breakdown 12,000 a semester you have seven semesters 86,154. They had like some of these additional fees on what it would cost like free equipment $800 your books 1500. They have the pants and the NC CPA review course. So I don't know is are these all included in this 86,000 or is this in addition to I think this might be in addition to post acceptance fees. A thousand dollars total. All right. Yeah. So this is all extra stuff that y'all gonna have to figure out because right here we got like 2000 that's 3000 4000. What is that another 5000 this six seven this might be eight nine 10. So maybe another like 11 to 15 10 to $15,000 on top of this 86,000 that you will have to spend for like your registration fee and, you know, to take the pants and all of that stuff. So, you know, just keep that in mind when you're thinking about how much this is going to cost overall. Let's go to the next one, which was Fort Myers, I believe. So that will be next. Let's close out this Fort Myers. Let's look at their tuition and see if it's any cheaper. All right, so everything is about the same. Let me see if I find anything that's different. Let's see what Jacksonville says. Okay, so Jacksonville is a little bit more expensive, you guys, than Fort Myers and Orlando. So I will show you the slight difference in their tuition. It's really not not that much in terms of what the others were, but a little bit of a difference. So this is 86, 923. And I think the other ones were like five something, 86, five something. So not that much of a difference there. Looking at these fees, they're all pretty much the same here as well. Licensing fee, all of these like postgraduate, like post acceptance fees. So not too much of a difference, but a smidge of a difference in what you would spend for your total tuition. Okay. And then the next one I'm going to go to is the Fort Lauderdale campus. And surprise, surprise, like I'm surprised at least that this particular program is actually cheaper than the others. And well, at least the Jacksonville one, this is 86, 154, which is I think what the other two were. So I don't know why the Jacksonville one is a little bit more expensive. That might be something you might want to ask or you can ask, you know, and see why that is, but for the most part, they're all the same. So you're not really losing much depending on which school you go to in terms of tuition. But things to look at is like your lifestyle, you know, what exactly are you going to be able to do?  You know, so those are all things that you would want to think about. Okay. So let me get into these questions before I get off of here. De said hi, so I'm saying hi to you. What's up. And beat face Danny. All right. Beat face Danny says hi, Donna. I know this is not related to this specific video, but can you speak about being a non traditional PA student with children? This is my main concern as I'm a mother of three small children. So yeah, for sure. As far as non traditional student with small kids, I think really and truly first and foremost, I don't know if you have like a partner that is like heavily involved in the care of your children with you. But if you do have that support system that really kind of takes things to the next level because you're able to really study and do the things that you need to to actually like become a good provider and a good PA and like get through PA school. And obviously it's not going to be easy and it is you're still going to make lots of sacrifices. There's going to be things that you miss out on. There's going to be things that you miss like your family misses out on in terms of not having you there for everything. But you can make your life structured in such a way that you give yourself enough time to spend to still kind of be present.  All of the sacrifices that you did in the past would be all worth it. And that's something that I'm still kind of learning, you know, I'm looking out. I've been kind of like just kind of scrolling through jobs and stuff to see what's out there. And, you know, there are various different hours. There are various different positions being offered, but sometimes you have to look at your life, look at the life that you want to live and see if all of that makes sense with where you're at. So school was difficult. It was hard. It wasn't easy.  So I hope that answered your question. But I can do a more dedicated video to it at another time. All right. Scat, scat you rent Lee me scat you rent Lee me. I was trying to do that to answer to say your name, but it's like, I'm messing it up. But anyways, it says hi, my name is Carlene, Carlene, that's what I'm calling you. Hey, Carlene. I'm currently a junior in IB at Suncoast and I recently found an interest in becoming a PA. Yay. I was curious as to what PA program did you attend and recommend here in Florida? Okay. So I attended the University of Lynchburg in Lynchburg, Virginia. It was fine, whatever, as far as what I would attend recommending in Florida. So I've been looked at all of the Florida's programs. So, and there's, you know, a few there. So I would recommend attending whichever one makes sense to you. Like, I know it's a cop out answer, but really into like how Nova has four different sites here on their own. I think there's like FIU as well as some other programs. And you got to look at it and see like, all right, does the money make sense? If I'm living in Fort Lauderdale versus Orlando versus Jacksonville versus Fort Myers, you know, and I'm moving and I have to like pay for this with loans or I have to save up for this. How does that fit in with like my pockets or the lifestyle that I want to live. And then, you know, you look at the program and see, hey, do they have like a cadaver lab versus not? If that's important to you, what's the student to teacher ratio? If that's important to you, for me, that was important. So having a smaller class load, but, you know, you still have like seven to 10 teachers. And so it's like a one to two or one to four student ratio. I thought that was great, but there are some schools where maybe you don't need that or you maybe may not want to have that kind of access to your teacher and your professor. And so you look at all of those things. And when you're looking at that and you're really, really interviewing these schools because you're interviewing them as much as they're interviewing you, you're researching them as much as, you know, when you do get an interview, they're going to be kind of combing through your stuff. You want to pay attention to that. And so, Carleen, you choose the best program that is, you know, will fit the lifestyle that you want to live. I can't really recommend anything in Florida because I don't know all of the programs in Florida, but maybe at some point I will. And then you ask, would it be smarter to attend a university that offers a PA program? And I would say, yeah, you know, like, so this is something that I found out when I originally was trying to attend PA school. I don't know if you guys remember, I told you a story about being offered a like masters of health science degree or something like that where I would be able to be like a hematologist and, you know, do work in the lab and things, but have that as like a, like a slightly advanced degree, but they had a PA program and the professor, the director of that program said, yeah, he was really good friends with the professors in the PA program. And, you know, if I wanted to do the PA program after I got through that, they do do give, they do give preferential treatments to the students that have gone through their school. And then because he already knows the professors, like, you know, he would be able to like write me a good recommendation and it might look well. And so, I know it kind of sounds like a little shaky and shady and stuff like that, but that is like, that's the world that we live in, you know, like that's, that's how people get into these programs that their grandfather or their father went to the school or has given money to do a school. And I know it doesn't always sound cool and, and, you know, as flashy as like, oh, I worked hard to get in. But yes, you do get preferential treatment. A lot of schools give preferential treatment if you have attended their program or any of their sister programs that they have like other sites. If you are like military, you also get special treatment. So those are kind of things that you want to look into. But yeah, if you, if you have a school that you are going to get a bachelor's degree in and they offer a pay program for sure, go there, do that. Mx says, Hey, Donna, do you think by chemistry is a good major to prepare for PA school because the major has a lot of chemistry that may not be needed for PA school. So is it a good major? Like you guys say this all the time. There's no great major for PA school. Apply to PA school with whatever major you want. I chose biomedical sciences because it had a base foundation in science and biology. And obviously like that's what you really need for PA school, right?  So if you have any major degree, you know, degree that you want to think about that has like that base foundation in it, then do that, but you're already going to have to get it anyways in your prerequisites. So ultimately the best major for PA school is one that you are passionate about. So if you are, you know, into the arts into fine arts or social sciences or things like that, I would suggest that you do those first and then just kind of get your supplemental prerequisite requirements in and then you can build a space for yourself as a PA in, in the area that actually like speaks to you and then that will be best for you because you'll be happy at the end of it all. Okay. All right. Mocha Betty's there. Wow. Yeah. Really cheap compared to the schools in Pennsylvania. Yeah. I mean, and you're going to find schools like that all over where, you know, like I saw a program where it was like 50,000 dollars. It was like 50,000 dollars for the entire program because it was based like kind of based with the community college.   So a school in Pennsylvania may not be the one for you. It might be a school in Arkansas. Who knows? But that is why you do this type of research.  All right. Jonathan said, hey, and I know this question is not about the topic, but me and my wife are planning on having a baby before PA school. Okay. Do you think it's doable with the newborn?  So like, you're not going to be really doing that. But it's like, let's be real, you know, at the end of the day, like I know that there are some really involved dads, but for the most part, the mom is the one that's doing it. Like doing the, the grunt, like the brunt of the work. And so it is doable. I know lots of people that had kids prior to PA school, during PA school and like slightly towards the end, like coming up the end of PA school, both male and female. Is it easy or doable? I don't know if it's going to be easy, but I would say that you definitely need to have a conversation with your wife in terms of what the expectation of your involvement will be like while you're in PA school. Because yeah, maybe there, maybe you can multitask and maybe there are times when you could be feeding your child or, and, you know, studying or like rocking, rocking them to sleep and you're listening to your podcast or whatever the case may be to help you learn the material. But you have to, you can't get into PA school and, you know, spend all this money and then let it go to waste in terms of, you know, you not making it through because of something that might have been preventable in terms of just studying more or having more opportunities to study. So I would absolutely say have that conversation and have some, some ground rules that you guys kind of lay out in terms of what the expectation is and then, you know, stick to that and go from there. And if for whatever reason, something changes, you feel differently about something or she feels differently, have that conversation, talk, you know, like the marriage is about communication. So definitely communicate. And he said, if you love my channel, kudos to you for that one as well. All right. And man, you guys are coming with the questions today. So Carly asked me, did I work in PA school? Does it make it interfere with studies? So I did not work in PA school. I mean, I worked as like a YouTuber, I would say, like I did YouTube videos in PA school and I only did them when I was on kind of like school vacation. I would make all my videos for like months ahead of time on the week that I was off and then just kind of schedule them. I think it would be really difficult to work in PA school. I know some people that did it as like a firefighter because they just had to work like a 24 hour shift. And so they just kind of want to keep their skills up. And then I need some people that were respiratory therapists that continue to do like PRN shifts while in PA school. But I think that it would be difficult. I think if you're in school, especially PA school, just spend that time studying and, you know, putting your all into learning how to be a really good provider. And then from that, like, you know, work is going to come. You're going to have all the work that you want as a PA once you're done. Okay. Moka Betty said, I'm a busy mom too and work from home. What are your thoughts on taking online prerequisite courses versus taking community or for your university? I mean, I think that is great. I loved, like that's the one thing that I think that one of the good things that came out of COVID, like not many good things came out of COVID. But being able to do online studying and online schooling was really a benefit to a lot of people because you don't have the time. You know, like for me, sometimes maybe I'm able to do something later on the night after my kids are asleep then, you know, when they're home because you want to be present and spend time with them. So I think that it is better. But the only like kind of snafu that you might run into is if schools don't really take those, those courses. So that's something that you'd have to run past them. A lot of schools have waived like those kind of requirements of having to be done at a four-year institution or not having an online lab for this last year of 2020 while COVID was still running pretty rampant. However, moving forward, I think some of those kind of lack stipulations that they had will like go back into place. So I'm just keep that in mind. Natalie asked, what would be the most helpful advice you've gotten when you were a PA student? So definitely the most helpful advice that I got was to build bridges and not burn them. So for me, when I went on my rotations and things like that, making sure that I made really good connections with individuals was very beneficial so that when I came out of PA school, I still had those relationships. Like I still talk to like some of my preceptors from PA school now into this day. And I can literally call them and ask them like any question that I may have, ask them to use like their office. One of my preceptors allowed me to use his office. And you know, I was like to make a video. It's like things like that.  And so it's good to build them up and not burn them. All right, Natalie also said, what do you think makes an undergrad student stick out when applying to PA school? You know, so for PA school, I think the most important thing is really your healthcare experience hours. And so the more hours that you get, the more you stick out really untruly. You know, GPA and all of that is cool because every, you know, they can look at that and be like, yeah, okay, you're book smart. But if you're able to work and you know, you have a lot of hours in a field, they see you as dedicated, you know, as driven a little, they're a lot more character and adjectives that they can use than, you know, oh, she's book smart or he's book smart. And then from that, after you've gotten all those hours, your personal statement, because all of those, you know, intangible things are written in the personal statement. And that's where they really get to see you as a person rather than just the numbers on a sheet of paper. So you definitely have to meet the requirements first. And then once that's done really and truly the personal statement is what will help you stick out. All right. So Danesha Roberts Pollock asked hey a data and attended NSU PA program class of 2011. It was tough, but I felt very prepared. I also precept students and they're still doing a great job educating. Cool. All right. So you know, here we have an alumni. 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