The great thing is that most of these classes are also prerequisites for professional schools of medicine, dentistry, physical therapy, occupational therapy, nursing, pharmacy and so on.

For me personally I just could not imagine having to get a job doing lab work in biology, chemistry or physics had my PT plans not have worked out.

If you are interested in sports and orthopedics, the ESS major allows you to springboard into things like athletic training and the part that interested me, the training of elite, Olympic level athletes. That sounds way more fun to me than the sciences, especially on an employment basis.

As far as the DPT thing goes. Basically the Master's programs of PT have added an extra year as well as some research and have transitioned to DPT. When its time to apply having a good fall-back Bachelors is highly recommended and takes the pressure off of you if it takes you a couple of tries to get accepted.

Best of luck!!

Michael J. Workman PT
professionaltherapies.com