<p>Does anyone have an idea of how many students are accepted for the Pharmacy program? And how many remain after several years? For instance, my son was also accepted to the Pharmacy program at University of the Sciences in Philadelphia. I learned they accept 400 students a year and by the third/fourth year, there are only 150-200 students left in the program.</p>
<p>Accept is also different than enroll, like your son most students are accepted into multiple programs. Typically each school enrolls less than half of who they accept. It looks like 288 students were enrolled last year to the 6 year Pharmacy Program and the 6 year retention rate is 72% which is pretty good. Three year retention rate 94 return the 1st year, 88% of those return after the second year, 85% of those return after 3 years. Some switch majors others leave the school.</p>
<p>Beau123, thanks for the informative response!</p>
<p>You are welcome</p>
<p>Dear beau123; Thanks for informative post.
My D is accepted into PharmD at St.John’s. We don’t get a big package, it just nearly enough to cover for the housing about 15K. My D is quite crying because my husband keeps insisting that where will he get money to cover the rest. He did some calculation, that after 4 years, the debt would rock up to nearly 200K not including the tuition would be increased every year and we must pay full tuition and housing in addition, for the last 2 years.
I have been wishing my D got accepted. Now my husband says NO; He is the main and only income. We have another 2 children; one will be in college in 2 years and one is still in elementary.
Do you have any suggestion???</p>
<p>I don’t have much to offer. Did you fill out the FAFSA and did you get the final financial aid award letter? I have heard that they often increase it with a school grant. If you have then you can appeal your financial decision. They will ask to see other offers that your daughter has received from other schools. They have changed amounts in the past I am just not sure if it will be enough. The last two years are graduate level, so your daughter will receive more aid on her own and be eligible for larger loans. The starting salary is very high for Pharmacists and St. John’s is one of the best but $200,000 in debt for undergrad seems extraordinary!
Did she get accepted into any other Pharmacy programs?</p>
<p>Thanks for replying. I have been so intense so I did not check into collegeconfidential.com until now. We appealed, but only $2K increased. We did send them copies of the offers from the other schools such as NYU (in NY city and Shanghai), Stevens that are about $ 30K.
She is on waiting list of U. R.I and Northeastern…Anyway we already paid deposit for St John’s. We will be broke.</p>