<p>What is the typical salary for them?</p>
<p>I heard kids are making 150,000 a year?</p>
<p>Is that true?</p>
<p>$150,000 is way too much for starting</p>
<p>This is about right for experienced pharmacists :</p>
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<p>That's for my area of NJ, but it definitely applies to most of central-northern Jersey as well.</p>
<p>around $95,000 straight out of school for retail in NJ</p>
<p>That's why RU Pharm is so competitive.</p>
<p>But I definitely wouldn't major in pharmacy if you're not up for putting up with very unnerving customers and potentially damaging drug doses for the rest of your life. There's a reason why pharmacists get paid so much. There are a lot of stories of pharmacists giving wrong doses and making customers permanently disabled. I mean, you'll be filling out like 15 prescriptions per hour for at least 40 hours a week (usually more)...that's about 30,000 chances to eff up. ><</p>
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<li><p>Is it extremely hard to get in? Like do you know the stats of kids who got in?</p></li>
<li><p>What do people mean when they say it's "very hard to stay in"?</p></li>
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<p>It's not extremely hard. The only ones I know who got in so far are top 10%, 1400+ SAT's. It's above average for most of Rutgers.</p>
<p>It's hard to stay in because it's a lot of science/labs, I hear. There are of course going to be classes that are kind of meant for weeding kids out -- like Organic Chemistry. Lots of memorizing is involved too. It's like med school lite. It's not for non-science people. If you want to go to pharmacy and don't like science that much, St. John's and LIU are probably better choices (their deadlines are in Feb and St. John's gives very generous scholarships) because -- no offense to them -- but the standards are a lot lower there so I assume the classes will be easier.</p>
<p>Really? I thought St. John's Pharmacy was ridiculously competitive.</p>
<p>If I may ask, how does NEU pharmacy compare in all this?</p>
<p>I have no idea about NEU. lol.</p>
<p>St. John's and LIU are both very competitive because they're both 6-year pharm programs but not as competitive as RU Pharm.</p>
<p>Why?:</p>
<p>-RU Pharm is the only Pharmacy school in NJ. New York has 4 -- Albany College of Pharmacy, LIU, St. John's, SUNY-Buffalo.
-RU Pharm is the least expensive pharmacy school on the east coast, even for out-of-staters. ACP, LIU, and St. John's are all typical private school tuitions ($20,000+). SUNY Buffalo, from what I've read, starts out with 2 years of low-in-state tuition but ends with 4 years of $30k/year. NEU and MCPHS and USP are also typical private school tuitions. So RU Pharm attracts a lot of out-of-staters, which ups competition.</p>
<p>I have been a Pharmacist for 20 years. Do NOT apply to Pharmacy school for the salary. It has been a great career for me as I have children and work part time, but it can be very tedious and exhausting. You work nights, weekends and holidays. Pharmacy schools have great clinical experience now, but that is not the real world. You will not be working side by side in a hospital with doctors. Rite Aid still needs Pharmacists to fill prescriptions.</p>
<p>I STRONGLY suggest shadowing a Pharmacist who practices in your area of interest before choosing this profession. Rutgers has an outstanding program, but the school your attend is almost incidental as you will get a job regardless. There are 5 Pharmacy schools in PA, several of which offer nice merit packages. You may want to expand your search there.</p>