Pharmacy School To Georgia Tech/UC/UW Computer Science

Transfer Students
1

Hi everyone,

I’m a first year pharmacy student but I found out that the profession is not for me. I’ve been in love with computer science for years and all I do besides school is coding. I’m planning to withdraw from pharmacy school if I get accepted to one of these great schools: Georgia Tech, UC Berkeley, UCLA and U of Washington.

  • Georgia Tech: I've already completed all of its' required courses but I didn't take linear algebra (which was listed as "recommended).
  • U of Washington/UC Berkeley/UCLA: I'm still missing 1 or 2 classes.

My GPA is >3.9 and my science GPA is 3.90. I have ~90 credits and already took a lot of chemistry/biology classes
So my question is:

  1. Is it possible for me to get accepted without taking all the prerequisites?
  2. Do I have a chance of being accepted if I still attend pharmacy school for the next semester? I just don’t want to drop because I don’t know what to do if I don’t get accepted to any of those schools.

I appreciate any advice.

2

You will need to contact each place to find out about the pre-requisites.

If you don’t want to do pharmacy, there is nothing wrong with taking a semester or two off while you look around for good places to complete your comp sci degree. Unless you have a ginormous scholarship right now, even one semester off will save you boatloads of money.

What about your own university? Is there a decent comp sci program you could transfer into right there?

3

My school only has 4 programs: Medicine, Pharmacy, Physician Assistant and Master in Biomed Science. I have scholarship so tuition is not a problem. In our program, I can’t just take one or two semesters off. They already set the curriculum and the whole class needs to follow. So I want to wait until I get an acceptance then drop out.

4

Why not finish your PharmD program and supplement your education with some key computer-related courses post PharmD (or during your program)? The one individual that I know has a PharmD and does computer-related Pharmacy “stuff” as a self-employed consultant. His annual income is maybe 4-times what a pharmacist or computer science graduate makes.