<p>Does anyone know about Pitts pharmacy program? Is it a 0-6 or 2-4 program. Its hard to tell from their website. It looks like a 2-4 program. Are you guaranteed to get in the 3rd year if you have good grades? I thought I also read somewhere on this site that someone was offered a guaranteed spot in the six year program as an incoming freshman? Any info? Thanks!</p>
<p>My kid researched this too. It's a 2-4 program, although they do give a few top students a guarantee. </p>
<p>At our open house, we met a student who got into Yr 3 with a 3.6 GPA, 2 years volunteering at a hospital across the street and some store-pharmacy experience.</p>
<p>I know an experienced pharmacy tech who applied TWO times with around a 3.5 and got rejected both times. That 3.5 - 3.6 must be the gray area. I don't know of any guaranteed pharmacy admission, but Pitt does have a few guaranteed med school admissions so it is possible. Best to check.</p>
<p>True -- if it's something you really want, better to check! The girl we met at the open house was one of the guides, so she may have also been well-connected within the school in addition to everything else...or may have done better on the math-science part of the GPA, etc. Most of the schools we spoke to required interviews too, and you never know how someone is going to do on interviews. We were told by several pharm schools during our college visits that the odds of getting into the Schools of Pharm were pretty low unless GPAs were higher than 3.6 and the PCATs were very good. At SUNY and Toledo, the pharm guarantee requires keeping a minimum 3.5. My kid got into Duquesne Honors as a prepharm -- I thought Duquesne had a 0-6 program like Ohio Northern, but the stuff that came in the mail indicated that prepharm students have to apply for the upper level classes. At U-RI, we heard that the average Pharm freshman had a GPA in excess of 3.8. If you really want pharm, be sure to check if there are any other quirks to the pharm program at the schools you're considering. My older kid learned that the UKY, for ex., only has a few openings for nonresidents, and U Toledo said it only admits students from the U Toledo pool of applicants. U WA wants applicants who already have a BS, and UCONN's school of pharm also just required that you complete a year at UCONN before being eligible to apply to the school of pharm. Pharm is a program where the requirements appear to be rapidly changing due to the major's popularity. My kid is weighing SUNY Buffalo very heavily now after getting an offer for the honors program and lots of $, since their prepharm guarantee is attractive. We'll be doing a SUNY visit within the next two weeks, and then will do another visit at Pitt. Of course, there are a lot of prepharm students at SUNY and not a huge pharm school...my older kid said the freshman chem class was a very effective weed-out.</p>
<p>Duquesne has always been 0+6, but I heard just a few weeks ago that they are going to switch to 2+4. The reason given was that they feel that a 2+4 program gets better students and garners more respect within the profession.</p>