Hey everyone!
So I am pretty set on doing pharmacy in college. I also really want to get into an 0-6 pre-pharmacy program.
However, some schools don’t have 0-6 programs and have 3+4 programs instead, which is alright with me. Not exactly what I’m hoping for but good enough.
Personally, I love NEU for some reason so I really want to apply and see whether I can actually get in.
In general, PharmD is going to be looking for similar things as Northeastern is looking for overall - obviously, STEM and medical-related extracurriculars help too.
Northeastern is a selective school, but not impossible to get into. A lot of this is better contextualized by stats.
In terms of GPA, they reweight with Honors as +.5 and AP as +1 - with that scale, the middle 50% is around 3.8-4.2 though I can’t find the exact numbers right now.
I’m not PharmD myself, but I’ve only heard good things about the program. It’s hard to get into but it’s not too competitive once you get in - most of Northeastern is like that. Much less cutthroat since most people are focused on their futures rather than the difference between a 3.9 and a 4.0, etc. PharmD is a very intense program though, and that will be true at any school.
Hopefully someone in PharmD or that knows the program well can elaborate on the specifics.
Hope that helps! Have you visited? If you have a shot at getting in, make sure to visit - same goes again for any school, but especially with NEU and co-op and all, it will help. You’ll get a lot of the stats and info you’re asking for that way as well.
Currently in the pharmacy program over here! No specific stats for pharmacy in terms of admissions but understandably, they’re going to put more of an emphasis on your science and math stats because you should have a solid background. Our program is pretty solid because of the built in co op program - you don’t have to worry about getting hours for licensing as a bonus Not only that the curriculum is split between traditional classroom and hands on practical simulations. The average class is 140 students give or take and you spend pretty much all your core classes with the same people. On the Northeastern admissions site, there’s a student blogger who is in the pharmacy program I believe so you should check that out
Wow I had no idea about the blogger!
Thanks for the tips!
Also since you are part of the pharmacy program, how do you manage your social life and academic life?
Can you party a lot and all or are you more likely to be buried in books? (if you don’t party a lot, do you know anyone in the pharmacy program that does?)
@athousandyears It’s always about time management. The program increasingly gets more challenging as you progress through understandably. And remember that there is a minimum GPA requirement to stay in the program and a minimum passing grade for all the core classes. So we work our butts off. A lot.
I’m not a party person myself but there are plenty of people in my class who are more inclined to those sorts of activities. Yes we spend a lot of time studying for our classes. But with effective time management, there are plenty of ways to relax and get away from all those textbooks I do a lot of extracurricular activities outside of my studies so I guess that’s my way of escape…
Not only that the curriculum is split between traditional classroom and hands on practical simulations. The average class is 140 students give or take and you spend pretty much all your core classes with the same people. On the Northeastern admissions site, there’s a student blogger who is in the pharmacy program I believe so you should check that out