<p>Hi, can't seem to find any threads talking about Pre-Pharmacy stuff...what classes one needs, tips ,etc.
my D is a senior originally wanting pre-vet, but thinking about pre-pharm as well.
thank you.....
any good websites, or threads that already exist here on CC?</p>
<p>thank you !!!</p>
<p>There are pre pharmacy programs that you can apply for that are 6 years, 2 of regular college and 4 at pharmacy school. but if you’re already a senior its probably too late to apply to these programs.</p>
<p>But thats not really a problem lots of people go undergrad before becoming pharmacists</p>
<p>your best bet would be to major in chemistry, most of what you will be doing involves the chemical makeup of the pills</p>
<p>second best might be biochem and after that biology</p>
<p>so you would be doing a 4 year undergrad and then 4 years at pharmacy school getting a pharmD</p>
<p>if she’s already a senior, its too late? (she’s a senior in h.s.) :)</p>
<p>?</p>
<p>Pre-pharmacy is today’s gold rush. Pharmacy offers great pay, great benefits, great job security, and you can live anywhere you want. That’s why everybody and their cousin is pre-pharm. Competition to get into pharmacy school these days is as high as that for med school.</p>
<p>Most pre-pharms are bio majors, biochem, or (in a big enough school) pharmacy majors. Not as many take the chemistry route, but some do. You’ll need at least two years of chemistry and you’ll need to do well in it, along with a lot of bio. You’ll also need to establish a relationship with professors, because you’ll need letters of recommendation from them. You should also plan to do undergraduate research and put in volunteer hours in a hospital. That’s pretty much standard for pre-pharm students.</p>
<p>The truth is that the main job of a pharmacist is to stand on her feet for long hours and count pills. Your daughter will learn a ton of science and will only use an ounce of it on a daily basis, until some doctor prescribes the wrong dosage or the wrong combination of pills, and then your daughter will save someone’s life. A lowly-paid pharmacy tech and a highly-paid pharmacist do very much the same job, except that the pharmacist is an insurance policy against that sort of thing happening, and that’s why they make the big bucks. And I hope your daughter loves learning, because the drug market is always changing, and she will have to become a lifetime pharmacy student just to keep up with it. There’s a lot of after-hours reading of new drug information.</p>
<p>hi, thanks for the info !~ we shall see.</p>
<p>I;ve been a pharmacist since 1982… competition is much greater, but more schools are opeining. If you’re dead set, get into a school that will accept you as a pharmacy major as a freshman, otherwise you may do 2 years and find out you are 1 of 350 applicants (just from your OWN school) for 150 or less spots in the Rx program. You can forget about transfering to another school at that point, cuz their situation is the same… so many applicants from within their own student body that they don’t even consider transfer students. As far as long hours… absolutely… figure on up to 14 hrs/shift at major chains, on your feet the whole time, no breaks, no lunches or dinners. Better at hospitals and other facilities, but jobs are limited cuz existing pharmacists DON’T leave those jobs! Go on [The</a> Angry Pharmacist](<a href=“http://www.theangrypharmacist.com%5DThe”>http://www.theangrypharmacist.com) to visit the real world of pharmacy.</p>