<p>hi everyone! im planning to apply to norhteastern and umass for pharmacy and i want to know if i have a chance of getting in...</p>
<p>my gpa junior year was 3.9 and 3.7 (not sure which one is the unweighted or weighted :P)
i got 1890 on my SAT and plan to take it again..
i took 1 honors in my sophmore year, 8 honors in my junior year (i transferred school), and i'm planning to take 3 AP's and 4 honors my senior year...</p>
<p>i am an officer in model UN, multicultural club. I did a lot of volunteering at church, i was in the NHS my freshman year and i got in my senior year as well...
outside of school i danced for 3 years..</p>
<p>Your stats look pretty solid, but most people applying to such programs have pretty good grades, SAT scores, and were in NHS. It will be important to score well on your APs and demonstrate how you stand out from other applicants when you apply. Also, start thinking about which teachers like you and would be willing to write great recommendations</p>
<p>Your scores are okay, but what I didn’t see was job hsadowing or working with a pharmacist. At these schools being able to show that you are committed to the profession and not just hoping for the paycheck would put you ahead. Be able to explain why you want to be a pharmacist and show the steps that you have taken to make this happen.</p>
<p>i asked cvs and walgreens if i could work/ volunteer at the pharmacy and they told me i had to be a college student to do it, and it seemed like they had never heard of a high schooler trying to volunteer at a pharmacy… how do i work at a pharmacy?? any ideas?</p>
<p>Sorry to get back to you so late. I would ask an independent pharmacist if you could shadow for a few days. My S shadowed a pharmacist at Walgreens for 20 hours and spent another 10 hours with a hospital pharmacist as a sophomore in high school. He decided against pharmacy after all because of the working environments. Most high schoolers can’t work in the pharmacy but observing should, hopefully be a different story. You need to know why you want pharmacy above all else, because these programs don’t want to admit you only to have you leave the school/program entirely when you realize that you don’t like the customer aspect, or the long hours, no bathroom breaks, etc.</p>