St. John's Pharmacy

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<p>Hi, I've been around on CollegeConfidential for awhile now, especially looking at posts regarding St. John's Pharmacy, and decided to finally post my own question up.</p>

<p>First of all, I'm currently a junior in high school, living in California. I am highly interested in St. John's 6 year Pharmacy program.</p>

<p>Here are my stats: </p>

<p>-GPA: 3.65 (this is very low because I messed up my freshman/sophomore year; i obviously wasn't aware of the importance in school. However, i'm really putting in much effort my junior year; with AP Chem, AP US History, AP Lang, AP Psych, I got straight A's my first semester in order to bring that GPA up, and I'm planning to continue working hard the rest of my junior year and senior yr)</p>

<p>-SAT I: 1970 (I have to get this score up ALOT...)
-SAT II: Korean with Listening (750- I was born and raised in Southern California)
*I am also planning on taking the SAT subject tests for US History, Math Level 2, Literature, and Chemistry.</p>

<p>-Extras: CSF, HOSA, 200+ volunteer hrs, etc etc...</p>

<p><em>I just wanted this to be a quick post to see how my stats are so far... So how are my chances at St. John's Pharmacy? And if i bring my SAT score up a little, do i have a chance at receiving scholarship?
*</em>Also, what can I do to make my application look a little better? (for example, should I volunteer at a pharmacy over the summer? Take up organic-chemistry at a community college?) </p>

<p>Thankyou so much! I can take constructive criticism, so please feel free to leave any comments!</p>

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<p>3.65 gpa is more than the average accepted, but still continue improving on it for other colleges. Sat I is also more than the average accepted but improve the score by 50 to 100 pts to keep your options open. Definitely volunteer in a pharmacy, this helps greatly writing the statement and just to get a general understanding of the field (St. John’s Pharm.D program is more practice oriented than research oriented).</p>

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<p>You’re more than qualified for the St John Pharmacy program. Since you live in California, I’ll give you the perspective of a New Yorker. And although St John does have a nice 6-year pharmacy program, you have much better places to attend (especially considering your stats). There’s a cult here where I live (Long Island) in which the dream of every student wishing to major in Pharmacy applies to and hopefully attends St John.</p>

<p>If you do improve your GPA / SAT I as you plan to (Along with getting nice SAT II scores), you definitely want to apply to universities with a stronger Pharmacy program than St John. There’s Northeastern, Rutgers, and Pittsburgh. I’d definitely look into them.</p>

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<p>St. John’s pharmacy is not too hard to get into if you have decent stats (which you obviously do). It’s a pretty interesting campus and social life at St. John’s. And coming from Cali, you’re probably going to get in. You can also check out Maryland and Northeastern.</p>

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<p>do you think i can get accepted with a 92.78 GPA currently (unweighted) and a 1950+ on the SAT? (currently i have 1800 but im planning on getting a tutor for the next two months)</p>