<p>is this major becoming too competetive? it seems like everyone wants to be a pharmacist these days. what are other good options? thanks.</p>
<p>It is not really a major. It is a pre-professional program, and it has always been competitive. Pre-med, pre-vet, and pre-pharm are all pre-professional programs but everyone just thinks of pre-med. Of the three, getting into a veterinarian college is the harder.</p>
<p>Here is a good site on how to become a pharmacist. It is not necessary to complete a 4-year undergrad degree before being accepted to a pharmacy college, but people usually attend at least 2-3 years.
<a href="http://www.allpharmacyschools.com/faqs/becoming_pharmacist.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.allpharmacyschools.com/faqs/becoming_pharmacist.php</a></p>
<p>thanks mang. i also want to know what engineering is? what does a engineerer exactly do?</p>
<p>Engineers sit in cubicles. Read Dilbert to see what an engineer does. What kind of engineer?</p>
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<p>what are other majors or careers i can pursue in that are fun/good money?</p>
<p>That is tough to say. Being a plumber is good money but they have to deal with plugged toilets. It depends on your interests, your academic performance in college, and whether you want to go to school after the undergrad degree.</p>
<p>Concerning the Med/Vet/Pharm route, it is discouraging because people who really want to go into those careers can't because it is so difficult to be accepted into Med/Vet/Pharm school. This is especially true for vets. However, nobody is ruled out of going into these fields because of their high school record. It is only the college grades that matter. Typically in college, there are "weed-out" courses that are difficult and graded even more difficultly in order to weed out the pre-med, pre-vet, and pre-pharms.</p>
<p>You mentioned engineering. A lot of people in high school go into engineering in college because they are good at math and science. The college that you go to doesn't matter that much after you graduate. You work in an office, do stuff, go to meetings, and that sort of thing. It isn't a bad life, and you can work your way up in management. You should understand that they will try to weed out the herd during freshman year. All engineering majors typically take the same curriculum in freshman year that includes Calc, Physics, Chemistry and Computers. Some of the engineering schools are easy to get into for decent students, but they will move a third of the freshmen to other majors by the end of freshman year.</p>
<p>Being a pure science major such as mathematician, physicist, biologist, or chemist effectively means that you probably want to go to grad school for your doctorate. Getting into grad school for the sciences is not that tough compared to Med/Vet/Pharm/MBA. If you want to go, you can go somewhere. Also the competition for grad school is not nearly that high. If you don't get a doctorate, there are still jobs, particularly for math majors.</p>
<p>What you want to do depends on your interests. A friend of mine was a forest management major in college because he wanted to be outside, and then he went to law school. He works now on environmental cases and travels all over the country/world on a regular basis.</p>
<p>i have a question about pharmD
first, how hard is pharmacy school?
second, what kind of lawyer can i be if i have a pharmD degree and then a JD? can i be an IP lawyer?
third, can I be an Epidemiologist if i have a pharmD degree?</p>
<p>I don't know all of this for sure. You might look at:
<a href="http://www.allpharmacyschools.com/faqs/becoming_pharmacist.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.allpharmacyschools.com/faqs/becoming_pharmacist.php</a></p>
<p>It is pretty hard. People normally study chemistry for 2-3 years as an undergrad and then move to a pharmacy school. They are very hard to get into. Think med-school, but I don't know if med-school or pharm-school is actually harder to get into.</p>
<p>If you wanted to become a lawyer after becoming a pharmacist, you could. It would be a little like becoming a lawyer after becoming a doctor. Legal cases have gotten so technical that they do want lawyers who are experts in technical areas.</p>
<p>I believe an Epidemiologist is a doctor.</p>
<p>It would be good for you to get some expert advice on this. I don't know if there are any pharmacists on CC.</p>
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<p>lol my dad actually told me i should go to trade school and become a plumber, or an electrician. he doesn't really believe in college--and it is true that plumbers can make serious moolah.</p>
<p>an epidemiologist is a doctor--it has a lot to do w/ being a medical examiner as well. fields like that are often a mix of majors and degrees, i think. but it would be worth looking into if you're interested (i'm reading the cobra event right now, so epidem. is on my mind. it's a gross book, but it might enlighten you a bit about those fields.)</p>
<p>well, i was actually talking about the pharmacy school in specific
i am already accepted to rutgers acc. pharm program, so i was wondering about the projected diffuculty of getting a good GPA for law school</p>
<p>I don't know enough about pharm. I need to read that website. It is a bit different because you don't have to finish the 4-year undergrad degree and you can go to pharm school at different points in your undergrad career. I don't know about the grading curve after you are already in pharm school, or whether they try to weed people out at that point. It seems like a good hook for law school. There are going to be a lot of law cases involving the health field in the future.</p>