<p>So I plan on going to pharmacy school in a year. I am now at a community college and I took some college courses in high school that don't really help me what so ever. On my transcripts there are a lot of classes that I took while I was planning on majoring in computer science that will not be needed for pharmacy school.</p>
<p>For example, there is a remedial course I took and got a C in it. This is the only C I have gotten in college. </p>
<p>When transferring to a college, do they only take the GPA from the classes that transfer or do they take the grades of all your classes? I'm just wondering if they are going to use the classes that I took for computer science and in high school to calculate my GPA?</p>
<p>The application process as a whole, they look at your accumulative GPA. They don’t pick specific courses. If you get accepted into the school, they determine your transfer credits but you aren’t assigned a GPA. You will start fresh.</p>
<p>From my knowledge, you need to have 3.7-4.0 to get into a good pharmaceutical program and you might have to take certain courses as prerequisites before you can transfer.</p>
<p>If the computer science class you took in high school gave you college credit then it would be used to calculate your GPA.</p>
<p>Yeah, I am starting on those pre reqs right now. These are classes such as: Bio I and II, CHEM I and II, Organic CHEM I, II, and Micro Biology. I’ve talked to current pharmacy students. They said don’t worry about my gpa too much as long as it’s 3.0 +, but focus on the pre reqs and try to get an A in them. As well as I get 75 percentile or higher on the PCAT, I should be fine is what they say. </p>
<p>The school I’m applying to had an average GPA of 3.5 for the entering class this past year in their pharmacy program.</p>
<p>If the course you got a C in was truly a remedial course you took because you could not test into a college-level class, it typically isn’t calculated into your institution’s GPA. If you received college credit for it, it probably was.</p>