<p>My S will get his 4 year undergraduate degree and then apply to pharmacy schools. We've heard that for medical school most students apply to 15-20 schools to increase their chances of being accepted. Can anyone shed light and/or experience on what the average number of pharmacy schools a student should apply to?</p>
<p>Can anyone help?</p>
<p>Sir/Ma’am, I replied on one of your three other identical posts and sent you a message about where to find more information on this topic, with no response. Unfortunately you might not get much input from this forum since many pre-pharmacy students here seem to be coming straight out of high school. I think people that take the track that your son did post mostly on Student Doctors Network. SDN has more information regarding this topic, but this is my take, which I think it pretty accurate. This is coming from a first year pharmacy student who just went through the whole application process. I hope this helps, and good luck to your son! Here’s my previous post:</p>
<p>"It varies from person to person. I know people that apply to just one school because that’s the only school they want to go to and/or are super (over?) confident they’ll get in there. I also have heard of people applying to up to 10 schools or more. I think the average is 3-5 or maybe 6. If he has a strong application (good GPA, PCAT, pharmacy experience/knowledge, extracurriculars, volunteering, leadership, research) then he should be able to get by with applying to a smaller number of schools since he has a decent chance of getting accepted, provided he does well in the interviews.</p>
<p>Statistically, it looks like med school is a lot harder to get in to than pharmacy school, but when you crunch the numbers they are almost equally competitive. It’s just that every med student applies to 15 to 20 schools, and of those that get interviewed or accepted only a small fraction of them will actually go there. Luckily for our wallets and stress levels, pharmacy has not reached that “apply to any and every school” mentality yet.</p>
<p>Thanks ranza003!</p>