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So I'd like to say thank you for sharing that info, lamom. Hence, I'll reciprocate. The numbers for TJL School of Pharmacy:</p>
<p>Number of pre-pharmacy students accepted into the school:
* ranges between 96-98, but never tops 100</p>
<p>Number of spots left for students from other schools:
* about 100</p>
<p>Typical number of applications (pre-pharmacy students + students from other schools) reviewed by TJL:
* 2,000+</p>
<p>Two thousand applications for two hundred spots in the cold (but high tech!) lecture hall @ TJL. Students stay put in the same lecture hall for about 3 hours, with the professors doing the switcheroos (drastic change for me when the time comes). Indeed, the administration maintains a tight control over the amount of pre-pharms and other students. They are very good with adhering to their 50-50 division. Like I said, the advantage of being a pre-pharm at Pacific is that the review board will review your application and will give you an interview. Pass those, maintain both GPAs, and hello, TJL. Others will have to play The Waiting Game or, perhaps, The Crying Game.</p>
<p>I wish someone who is in USC's TAP can share with us how it's like now (I would have applied there, too, but when I learned about it, the deadline had already passed). No one from UCSD's BS Chem/PharmD program can share because... well, no one is in it yet. The school established it in time for the then-incoming Fall 2005 class to be the first qualified class for participation, so there's one more year to go for that one. If I were in the Fall 2004 class, interested in pharmacy, and heard about this during the school year, I'd be peeved.</p>
<p>PS - TAP ensures guaranteed</a> admission in USC's pharmacy school if its prerequisites are successfully met; Pacific ensures application</a> review and the interview, but not TJL admission. I guess that essentially, it is not that big of a difference as all students in both programs need to be successful in their prerequisites in the first place. How each school communicated their terms and conditions, the wording, just threw me off, I suppose. It's almost like college application all over again; scrutinizing, scrutinizing, but it's a process I don't miss.
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