<p>Hello. I'm very interested in any universities with pharmacy programs.
I know uop, usc, and purdue have pharmacy programs but I want to know if there are more. :)
Also, I don't fully know about what they offer so I would also like some comments on that too.</p>
<p>I'm also considering
UCI
UCSB
UCLA
UCB
UCSD
Pepperdine..</p>
<p>any comments on those colleges?</p>
<p>what about other colleges?
I want to stay in cali so please consider that too :)</p>
<p>but my first priorities are any universities with good pharmacy program.
please help me with this! im desperate ! thank you!!!!! :)</p>
<p>Isn't pharmacy a graduate program? You get a PharmD
I know UCSD has a great biochemistry program.
Then you would most likely got to UCSF for graduate(best pharmacy program in nation) even though UCSD has the Skaggs School of Pharmacy.</p>
<p>You can find a list of schools by state at the Pharmcas web-site. I strongly suggest that you review each school's pharmacy requirements very, very closely before picking a school. </p>
<p>Each school has different prepharmacy pre-requisites. Some schools are 2+4 (two years or more of prepharmacy work, and then you apply to the PharmD program), some are 4 + 2 (you need a BS before applying) and a very few are 0-6. An interview is a requirement for admission to a PharmD program. Work in a pharmacy or pharmacy job shadowing is recommended.</p>
<p>My kid met the prepharm requirements of his university for its 2 + 4 program, but wants to apply to a few other schools to increase the odds of admission (the odds of admission to the actual PharmD program appear very close to law schools...25%/lower in many cases). The trend appears to be moving to 4+2.</p>
<p>Every school has different requirements....some want microbiology and/or biochemistry, some want speech classes, some even want religion classes...they are all different!! Many schools are also changing their admission requirements each year, which makes it even harder to predict. Toledo, UCONN and Duquesne only accept candidates from their own prepharm programs -- no direct transfers into PharmD. It is therefore important to consider the school's prepharm program and admissions statistics. You might need to develop a good relationship with a prepharm advisor as part of the process.</p>
<p>In short, from my kid's experience, this is a program that requires research, research, research every step of the way. Good luck!</p>
<p>Look at all those! I never bothered to complete them and if I had to do so, would spend my last summer prior to matriculation to take summer school. Thankfully I ended up at Michigan which made things much easier. Different schools have different priorities and mission statements - make sure that the pharmacy they are focused towards meshes well towards your own goals. Some are more retail oriented, others clinical and others specializing in research, though none of these are necessarily mutually exclusive.</p>
<p>Pharmacogenomic - Of the 10 you applied to, can I ask how many gave you an interview invitation? Did you go to all of the interviews? Can you tell me what your PCAT ranges were? My kid is also expecting to apply to a lot of schools, and is taking the PCAT in a few weeks. He knows he's probably going to be in summer school next summer, since for most of the programs outside of his own school he'll be missing one or two of their prereqs.</p>
<p>Of them all? I don't remember the specifics but probably 8 gave me an interview invitation but I didn't go to all of them because I only had a couple select schools that I wanted to go to. I was guaranteed early on that I had an acceptance to Michigan and was waiting on UNC Chapel Hill, UCSF, University of Wisconsin and USC. One school didn't give me an interview invitation which was UCSD.</p>
<p>I had a 95 on my PCAT but my grades weren't spectacular, probably 3.0 science and a 3.4 overall?</p>
<p>Thanks for the info. My kid's #1 choice is SUNY Buffalo, with Temple and possibly Thomas Jefferson as 2nd and 3rd. He's been studying for the PCATs all summer with a goal of >80% (a 3.5 overall GPA, but organic is coming up so anything can still happen). This is very nerve-wracking. Congratulations on getting such a great PCAT score, and getting into a great program! </p>
<p>We actually visited Kentucky, but they reserve so few spots for out of state students that it didn't seem like a very good option. We had a group interview with an advisor in the Pharmacy School. The interviewer was great with us when she learned that my kid had been volunteering in a hospital and had a lot of info about pharmacy work, but was very, very chilly with another student who wanted to be a pharmacist because "it seemed like a career in which he could use his interest in chemistry and make a lot of money." Ha ha.</p>
<p>I wouldn't worry too much about the PCAT as it's mostly a speed test of fast memorization. Nothing compared to the MCAT, though I would suggest that your kid take the first semester of organic chemistry first before taking the test. There's a decent amount of it in the chemistry section though it's very basic. Just be aware that the exam is rather random at times and there were things I didn't know because I didn't take anatomy at the time, nor microbiology. The math section is especially speedy and there is no time to hesitate with calculator like calculations where mental shortcuts and rounding will do - everything must be done with split-second reflexes! I actually didn't finish the math section with about 3 questions to go and still got a 98 on the section. I'm sure your kid will be fine in the overall process; just make sure that he writes spectacular essays and is full of (good) conviction and charisma at the interviews! That makes or breaks the application. Your kid will also be surprised that chemistry isn't actually the core of pharmacy - physiology is. While there is chemistra, pka, and some of those concepts derived from organic and inorganic, everything I've learned so far is about how a drug reacts in the body which reacts with x which reacts with x and so on. It's a big connected web of interweaving biological concepts.</p>