Shawn, there are only about 16 accredited colleges that offer a chiropractic program. Here is a link to get you started. Hopefully someone else will chime in to help you. ACA - Chiropractic Colleges
There are several fly-by-night unaccredited programs that I'm sure would take your money and print you a nice looking diploma. However, for a professional is all about improving the quality of life of their patients, your not going to do yourself or your patient's any justice by attending the school that has the easiest admission requirements. Just my .02 cents
I'm as certain as can be that there are no "unaccredited" schools through which you could qualify for licensure as a chiropractor. NorCal must have been making a general point that a prospective health care professional should try to avoid poor schools.
Shawn it seems that you are bouncing around looking at many different career paths across a wide spectrum. Are you looking for something lucrative that is a quick money maker or are there other factors that you are looking for?
I think that generally people are going to be most familiar with the chiropractic college that is closest to them since there aren't very many in the country. I attended Life University in an Atlanta suburb, not as a chiropractic student but as an undergraduate in a different program. I think that the admission process is forgiving at Life because there is a program to get under-qualified students ready for the chiropractic program. In many of my classes there were students, from traditional college age up into their 50's, who were getting the pre-reqs that they needed before they could officially enroll in the chiropractic program. From talking with other students, I would say that the undergraduate program (which would include the pre-chiropractic students) is not overly challenging, so you'd have an opportunity to bring up your gpa as you took the courses you needed to prepare for the much harder chiropractic classes. Even though I met plenty of students who felt the undergraduate classes were kind of a joke, all of the chiropractic students I talked with thought that their classes were extremely challenging, so I believe that the chiropractic classes are much more rigorous and do a good job of preparing the students to take care of their patients after graduating. The one complaint that I did hear was that the advisors did not always give the right advice, so you have to be careful to understand for yourself what all of the requirements are and be vigilante about getting signed up for the right classes in the right order. I knew of several students that had problems with advisement, but the worst case was one student who had almost completed the whole program before finding out that he was not going to be able to graduate as a chiropractor because his advisor had not signed him up for a pre-req his first year, so several of the other courses he had taken and passed were not going to count toward his degree. It was really terrible! But, from what I've heard the chiropractic training is pretty good.
