Former Biology Major working adult- finish online or change majors?

[cookderosa]

PA schools generally do not require physics, though the Ds would hurt your caspa gpa certainly

most do require organic chem 1, many of them also org 2, sometimes org 1 and bio chem 1, sometimes all 3

a lot of them do have preferences about how old the classes are, some are hard set, some are more a soft requirement, but you better shine elsewhere kind of thing

Exactly- there are 2 separate issues: meeting degree requirements for an undergrad at one of the big 3 (easy) and meeting prepreq requirements for some health care program (not easy). Again, you can do anything you want, you just have not really defined that clearly in my mind.

EDIT: and I want to toss in there the costs involved. None of the previous potential career paths are served by simply checking the box at one of the big 3. All potential career paths mentioned in the original post WILL require schooling and time. Nurse practitioner? You need the RN and a graduate degree $50k and no less than 4 years from today. PA? You need updated lab sciences. I spent a LOT of money on my postbac (and I'm a budget ninja) of course there are tons of variables, but you're looking at minimum $15k just to get those updated, and that's on top of whatever cost through the big 3- and a year and a half or more for the courses. Then PA school- again, a lot more time and big money. My point is that while any of these are worthy, AND ATTAINABLE, you should be really sure before you start because you get 1 arrow but you're aiming at a half dozen targets.

[UptonSinclair]

Since Pharmacy school was mentioned early on, I thought I would mention that the program at University of Colorado requires all math and science courses to be taken in class. They won't accept online courses. Be sure to plan backward from your goal just to be sure you don't make any expensive or time consuming mistakes.