<p>Now I will be a senior in high school and I want to go to UT pharm school
I heard that UT has 0-6 pharm program.</p>
<p>So heres my questions</p>
<p>1) Is there any difference b/t 2+4 and 0-6?</p>
<p>2) If I admit to 0-6 program and I keep my gpa well, then will I take PCAT?</p>
<p>3) can you expain me more about pharm system??</p>
<p>I think that 0-6 pharm schools are schools to which you are accepted into a six-year Pharm.D. program right away as an incoming freshman, like Butler in Indianapolis (which has a great pharm program), and 2-4 pharm schools are schools in which you do two years of classes in the university as a pre-pharm student and then apply to the pharm school and if you are accepted you then are in the Pharm.D. program. That is how it is at Ohio State. (To use my Midwest examples.) Ohio State does admit some honors freshmen directly into the Pharm.D. program through its Early Admissions Pathway - maybe other 2-4 schools do that too, and are 0-6 for some students. I think top students who know they want to be pharmacists all go for 0-6 programs.</p>
<p>The courses you end up taking over the course of six years are similar; in both programs you end up with your doctorate in Pharmacy.</p>
<p>I think you should ask about this in the college majors forum.</p>
<p>Midwest is right about the way both pharm options work. But for UT they dont offer a 0-6 program at Austin. I believe its UT el paso that has a 0-6 prgram where you do some of your years there and then the rest at the actual pharm school as long as you maintain a certain gpa. If you plan on just going to UT asutin you are going to have to do your 2 years pre pharm work and then apply to pharm schools.</p>
<p>thanks ppl</p>
<p>so after 6 years of college do you end up working at walgreens?</p>
<p>You mean earning close to $80K at Walgreens (who gives some pretty sweet benefits too)? That would be a yes.</p>
<p>Yeah it's not just some random person at Walgreens that fills your prescription, it's actually a person who holds a doctorate and gets paid commensurately.</p>
<p>plus wicked self medication privileges. I'd feel weird holding a doctorate and working next to a bunch of hourly workers that probably resent you though.</p>
<p>A Pharm.D. is a great degree to have.</p>