I’m currently a Kinesiology student and I have about 59 credits left in my degree. My goal has always been to become a physiotherapist, but lately I’ve been feeling really discouraged and anxious about whether that’s still realistic for me.
My grades in anatomy and physiology haven’t been great. I got a C and C+ in my anatomy courses, and I also didn’t do well in physiology. I’m going to be retaking my second physiology course and I’m hoping to significantly improve my grade.
I know I still have 59 credits left, so there’s time for me to improve my GPA and hopefully show a strong upward trend, but I’m honestly scared that my earlier grades have already closed too many doors for PT programs.
I’ve been looking particularly at PT programs in Ontario, but I’m open to programs elsewhere in Canada as well. I know some schools have minimum grades for prerequisite courses while others seem to focus more on sub-GPA/recent credits, so I’m trying to figure out what options I realistically still have.
Has anyone been in a similar situation where they had weaker grades earlier in their degree, especially in anatomy/physiology, but improved later and eventually got into PT?
Would retaking prerequisite courses and doing well in my remaining 59 credits actually make me competitive somewhere? I’m willing to put in the work — I’m just feeling really overwhelmed and would appreciate advice from anyone who has gone through the PT application process.
**TL;DR:** Kinesiology student with 59 credits remaining, weak anatomy/physiology grades, retaking physiology, and really wants to pursue PT. Is it still realistically doable if I significantly improve from here?

I completed my 4th year of kinesiology and I am doing 5th year now. Why 5th year? Cause I didn’t know what I wanted to do in the future so I half assed up to 3rd year like an idiot. 4th year, I started to put more effort in and got up to a 3.8GPA for my 4th year. My Cgpa is now 3.10 after taking some more summer courses. Since I did horrendous in my previous years, I have prerequisite courses that need a 70% grade average requirement but I do not meet them. Therefore I have to retake lots of courses. In Canada schools look at the last 20 credits (last 20 courses) so that is why I am doing the 5th year. Not meeting lots of my prerequisite like physiology and anatomy is putting lots of pressure on me and I’m not confident in getting an A in these courses. I have looked through most Canadian schools that the competition is incredibly high. I also did research across the world and found that Australia and UK is very popular for canadian students. Still I want to look for a place closer to home.

Anyone been in my shoes? If so, what did you guys do?

I'm curious what other PT programs are using for clinical hour tracking. Ours feels more complicated than it needs to be. Hours get logged in one place, the CI signs off somewhere else, and then some of the same information ends up getting submitted to the program again.

Has anyone's program actually figured out a system where the student, CI and school are all working from the same place? Mostly curious what the day to day process looks like for people who aren't maintaining multiple versions of the same log.