sorry, but the fact is that you DO care as to whether or not i get an interview. in case you need to refresh your memory, just take a quick glance at your original post in this thread. in your last sentence, you said that you would be "VERY" concerned if an AA program allowed someone like myself to go to school and become an AA. so if i do get an interview and get accepted, what are you gonna do, clutch your pillow at night while you quiver and worry about the fact that an AA program let one of "us" into school?
also, even if some CRNA programs teach physics, it is a simple fact that over 99% (100%?) of pre-CRNA students do NOT take any physics whatsoever. if the physics in AA/CRNA school is so hard (as in, harder than fluid dynamics and gas laws, which are NOT hard), then how do CRNA programs weed out the students that can't hack the physics? there isn't a physics pre-req, so obviously they have no idea.
the physics just isn't that important to them, and even if it was, consider the fact that MOST (but not all) CRNA programs have an average accepted GRE score of right around 1000. that means that most CRNA matriculants scored even lower than i did on the quant section (because even i scored MUCH higher than 1000).
so if physics, a heavily math-oriented subject, is so important in CRNA programs, then why do those very same CRNA programs make it a habit to accept people with even lower quant scores than myself?
hell, if i end up having to re-apply next year to AA programs, it almost makes more sense to just become a CRNA instead. i have already taken 2 nursing major classes as electives, and i can do the local community college's RN program in under a year, or at least, it wouldn't take any longer than a year. even though i won't have a BSN, i can still apply to the many CRNA programs that only require the RN license and a bachelor's degree in anything (remember, i have a bio degree).
if i do get rejected, that means i would have ~1.5 years of downtime even if i do re-apply in August and get accepted somewhere. if i'm going to have to do a year and a half of waiting if i get rejected this time around, it might make more sense to spend that time going through the RN program and then working for a year as an ICU nurse while i apply to CRNA programs. the whole process of getting into CRNA programs would take only a little longer than it would for me to re-apply to and start in an AA program.
hey, at least i already have an above-average GPA and GRE score for CRNA programs!
i guess the point i'm making is, regardless of what happens with AA programs, i still have the opportunity to become an anesthetist. if the AA programs want to focus on the numbers game (and i can't blame them if it really is that competitive...it only makes sense), then i'll just become a CRNA and work in any damn state i want. really, if the ending job title ("anesthetist") is the same for CRNA's and AA's, then why would you ONLY consider going to AA school to become an anesthetist? sure, you might prefer the medical model, but if you have no other choice but to become a CRNA and you really want to be an anesthetist, then you'll do what you have to do.
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