pharmacy anyone?

<p>Anybody else eventually aiming for pharm school?</p>

<p>i am. are you a pre-pharm student?</p>

<p>No, I am just interested in this field. Are you a pre-pharm student? (I'm a high school junior)</p>

<p>yeah i'm a freshman in college</p>

<p>I haven't decided yet, but I'm considering studying pharmacy is one of my post-highschool option too! BTW, I'm highschool sophomore.</p>

<p>what major would you suggest if i wanted to go to the pharmacy route if i'm attending a liberal arts school?</p>

<p>how's vcu's pharmacy? its in-state for me and if i went i'd only have to worry about paying room and board.</p>

<p>i am interested in pharmacy, i was accepted to albany college of pharmacy, long island university pharmacy school and rutgers university-pharmacy school. I really don't know where to go-it's a tough choice.</p>

<p>from my good friend who has done intense research on pharmacy, while you can technically major in anything, she said it's so chemistry-heavy, if you're not a science major you'll have some catching up to do</p>

<p>Rutgers Pharmacy School is very reputable. You enter directly into the program,from HS, and it is 6 years to earn a Doctoral degree.</p>

<p><a href="http://pharmacy.rutgers.edu/admin/new_name/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://pharmacy.rutgers.edu/admin/new_name/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Pharmacy school is lots of chemistry. The prerequisites will prepare you for pharmacy school. It would be great if chemistry is a subject you like. If you don't-just do it-I did.</p>

<p>Screw that! Go to Nova! <undergraduate.nova.edu> It's the best! Any idiot can go there and it's pretty cheap! Check it out yourself!</undergraduate.nova.edu></p>

<p><a href="http://undergraduate.nova.edu%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://undergraduate.nova.edu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Didn't anyone try for University of the Pacific? I did. They offer the Pre-Pharmacy advantage program for their freshman applicants and depending on how students score on their SATs or ACTs, admits can choose to do a 5, 6, or 7 year pharmacy program. It takes admits straight to the Pharm school and + side: gorgeous campus.</p>

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<li>side: $24000 for 2 semesters for 04-05 school year. I'm wondering how my friend up there is paying for it all.</li>
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<p>Almost forgot! I applied to St. Louis CoP and got accepted, but turned it down. It's the most affordable school out of the schools I applied to; but it's too far and I'm very much attached to my beaches and sand here on the west coast.</p>

<p>Duquesne Univ. in Pittsburgh has an outstanding pharmacy school, as does XULA (Xavier U Louisianna)..Duquesene is small, private and catholic so it's a little $$. XULA is a highly diverse campus, and near new orleans..what more could one ask for?!</p>

<p>i just got into u of the pacific. they gave me the 6 yr program w/ a regents scholarship ($10k/yr). whether i go, however, will depend on whether or not i want to do pharmacy.</p>

<p>Yeah, the Regents scholarship. Got way excited about that, too, but then I remembered that there's still that $24000 that needs to be paid. So that $10000 is only really good for room+board. The parentals are leaning more towards UoP, but I'm reminding them "Y'all aren't the ones who are going to that college all 4 years. I am. So I'd better be happy at the campus."</p>

<p>Scholarships? Good. Financial aid? That's good. But realistically, $10000 isn't very much money after all and that makes me sad.</p>

<p>it really sucks crap that i didn't get accepted to their pre-pharm program...they rejected me from the program but accepted me to the school...geez wth am i supposed to do there when i can't get into pre-pharm? </p>

<p>does anybody know any schools besides uop and usc in california that offer good pre-pharm programs?</p>

<p>that's really too bad, becky. :( i'm sorry; i can sympathize with rejections.</p>

<p>pre-pharm advantages are only offered to incoming freshmen, i think. if i'm misinformed, i apologize. but what you can do in pacific is be a biochem major; if you get a b.s. in biochemistry, you can get at least a job in the pharmaceutical industry and then you can apply for their grad school. actually, you can go to any school and major in biochem; then apply to pharmacy schools and see where you get accepted.</p>

<p>my best friend is a bio major right now @ uc irvine because he thought he needed to be a science major to get into a pre-med program. he found out he didn't need to, so he's switching to be a history major. i'm thinking that you can major in other areas, but as long as you fulfill your chosen pharmacy school's requirements, you'll qualify for a space in their program.</p>

<p>as for me, i'm conflicted btwn UCSD and UoP. i've heard good and bad things about both campuses and their locations, but i'm just going to have to visit and see for myself. both schools are very good; i can't lose either way. except for my space in UoP's pharm school.</p>

<p>good luck with your decision making. you should talk to a counselor @ UoP for some advice, too. my enrollment counselor's name's nathan and he's really nice. maybe he's everyone's enrollment counselor, too, but in whatever case, ask for advice.</p>

<p>so pre-pharmacy is the 2+4 program, and the non-pre pharmacy is the 4+4, right?</p>

<p>is it really difficult to qualify for the 2+4? i will probably go to either umd college park or vcu. and then transfer to mcv, or umd baltimore. but i'm in-state for mcv since i live in va. 17 right now and just got hired to work at cvs as a pharmacy technician. boo ya. cept for my third quarter interim d plus.... IN CHEM!!! damn. that class. so hard. ib i hate.</p>

<p>my gpa can be 3.501 excluding the finals, but i have a d+ in ib chem and a c in spanish 3, but a's in all my other classes, which are ib english, ib math, physics, ib film, ib history.</p>

<p>looking to pull that d+ into a c after the 3 weeks left in thrd quarter, and then hopefully i can make an a, bringing that to a b.</p>

<p>same with spanish, make that into a b, the teacher said it was possible within third quarter.</p>

<p>really hoping i can do this. spring break to collect my brains. any advice please.</p>