<p>Anyone know which colleges are good prepharm schools? And is the pre-pharm track the same as pre-med? I'm a pre-med at WUSTL but my sister is looking into pre-pharm (high school junior).</p>
<p>Any help is appreciated.</p>
<p>Pharmacy schools probably require more specific undergraduate courses than many medical schools. Each pharmacy program is different, however, and you need to look into the specifics at each school.</p>
<p>There are three different routes to take for a pharmacy degree. One way, which seems to be decreasing in availability is the 0-6 route in which you are admitted directly to a school of pharmacy and you graduate in six years with a PharmD degree. The other way is called the 2+4 in which you go to an undergraduate program for your first two years and take several prerequisite courses - you then apply for pharmacy school, and if successful, you enter a school of pharmacy and finish four years later with a PharmD degree. The third way is to get your bachelors degree, taking all prerequisite courses and apply to pharmacy school. Four years later, you graduate with a PharmD degree. In other words, it takes six to eight years to get your pharmacy degree, depending on what program you go into. </p>
<p>Try this website for much more specific information on pharmacy school:
Pharmacy</a> Forums [ PharmD ] - Student Doctor Network Forums</p>
<p>does anyone have a list of schools that have these programs?</p>
<p>My kid is in a prepharm program with an early assurance guarantee, and appears to be doing well enough to keep the guarantee. However, just to be safe, my kid decided to take the PCATs in August to be able to submit a few other applications too (PCATs aren't necessary under this guarantee if grades are above a certain GPA). What a surprise! We started looking at some other possible Schools of Pharmacy's pre-requisites, and discovered that they are all over the place. Some schools require a semester of microbiology and others don't. Some schools require statistics, and others don't. Some schools require a semester of biochemistry. Some schools have pre-requisite classes with names that make it hard to figure out what they are. In short, pharmacy appears to be a program in which having a clear idea of what school and program you're targeting from the beginning is very, very important.</p>
<p>When you add many schools' requirement that certain prepharm classes be taken AT THAT SCHOOL, which eliminates AP or transfer credits, it's not surprising that more and more pharmacy applications are from students who have achieved their BS.</p>
<p>Needless to say, my kid is very happy with the early assurance guarantee and is now probably going to gratefully stay in the same school...and forget about possiblity transferring. </p>
<p>I thought this info might help someone else who is picking a prepharm program.</p>
<p>I don't know about the logistics, but when I hear pharmacy, U of RI, Northeastern, and St. Johns University come to mind.</p>
<p>either boston college or boston university</p>