<p>So, I wasn't really sure where to put this thread, but I guessed that this was a pretty good spot since if I'm going to do a 6 year PharmD program, I will essentially be in graduate school from day 1 of my college experience.</p>
<p>With that information, since it's already a "6 year" program, if I were to use all of the AP credits I have, what exactly will they do? Is it possible for me to shorten it down to even two years?</p>
<p>AP credits are only accepted as lower-division (freshman/sophomore) credit… I don’t know any university that lets AP credits replace upper-division classes.</p>
<p>You might, emphasis on might, get a year’s worth of classes out of the way with AP credit. But even that’s not guaranteed, depending on what’s required for a PharmD program and when those courses are offered.</p>
<p>Edit: A six-year PharmD is generally 2 years pre-pharmacy and 4 years of professional preparation. From what I’m reading, even pre-pharm is highly specialized. They may accept few or even no AP credits at all.</p>
<p>Not down to two years, down to five
and Northeastern does accept AP credits so for 1st semester I’d AP out of Chem, Bio, Psychology, Calculus, English, and an elective.
Which means my whole freshman year could be just two classes, College: An introduction, and Profession Pharm</p>
<p>So are you saying that it is possible to do this?
Northeastern doesn’t say that they won’t decline AP credits
and I know that Rutgers limits it to 8 so I don’t really want to go there.</p>
<p>Essentially, I’ll be taking my sophomore year of the PharmD program in my freshman year. Have you heard of anyone doing this before?</p>
<p>The schools can tell you whether it’s allowed or not. Just shoot them an e-mail and ask.</p>
<p>I am more concerned about whether it’s a good idea, for two reasons. First, there’s a concern about your academic background. Have you internalized AP Chemistry enough that you can seamlessly pick up in organic chemistry one-and-a-half years after you take your AP exam? Would your AP bio class really give you the same exposure as a college bio class? (Keep in mind that the standard pre-pharm courseload is 4-5 courses per term, not 6-7 as in high school.) Being a bit behind in one of your college classes wouldn’t be a big deal. Deficiencies in all of them could be detrimental.</p>
<p>Secondly, some students might find themselves unprepared for the demands of college work if they jumped right into a second-year course load. First-year classes do provide somewhat of a transition between high school and upper-level college classes in many respects: workload, course structure, an intro to the lab procedures and lab equipment, etc. If you consider yourself shy, you might have a harder time making friends or finding a study group because all of the other students in your classes are already settled in.</p>
<p>In short: expect to enter the “second” year of the pre-pharm program underprepared. Some students thrive under those conditions - you might be one of them. Your plan would set many students up for failure, but you might be more motivated and resilient than most of your classmates.</p>
<p>I was looking around the CC forums and found that there were people who kind of did a pseudo second year because they were able to AP out of many classes. </p>
<p>But the sophomore year chem class is O Chem and although I’ve done amazingly (In comparison to other topics) in O Chem for AP Chem, my teacher told me that I haven’t even scratched the surface.</p>
<p>Really, I want to go through college and get out as fast as I can so I won’t be drowning in debt by the time I graduate.</p>
<p>On the other hand, pharmacists make cash money straight out of college.</p>