<p>Listening to current high school seniors talk about the college application process, I am reminded of the immense difficulties and nervousness that I also felt a year ago.</p>
<p>I am a current NEU freshman in the PharmD program. If any aspiring pharmacy students, regardless of being accepted or deferred or applying regular decision, feel free to ask me. Do not lose hope... I was accepted RD with a $16,000 merit scholarship, regardless of the fact that I had a low HS GPA. </p>
<p>HS GPA: 2.97 unweighted
Rank: 100/350
AP Courses: European History, US History, Biology, Statistics, Calculus AB, English Lit
SAT: 710 M, 690 CR, 700 W (took three times, best of each section)
SAT II: 610 Lit, 720 Math I, 700 Spanish (took twice)</p>
<p>Son was just accepted in the pharmacy program. He is very excited, it is his first choice; decent merit money, though it will definitely be a stretch to make it work financially. We have a couple of questions:
Approximately how many pharm students are in your class?
How difficult are the classes, do you think it will be difficult to maintain the 3.0?
Do you live in the Bouve LLC in Stetson? If so how do you like it?</p>
<p>One more question, Do you know how much pharm students typically earn during co-op? This is important to us in figuring out how we are going to pay for this.
Thanks again</p>
<p>I believe there are 110 students in the Class of 2012 pharmacy class. There is only one offering of "Introduction to the Profession of Pharmacy" class (a mandatory seminar for all pharm sophomores) for next year and there are only 110 seats, all of which are filled.</p>
<p>In my opinion, the classes were not difficult at all. I chose not to use any of my AP credits, hoping to boost my GPA. Maintaining a 3.0 is not difficult in the least. However, pharmacy is a major in which courses become increasingly difficult through the years. Many middlers (third-years) I know say that the classes are unbearably hard. It is relatively easy to maintain a high GPA during freshman year, but it will become significantly harder with progression. </p>
<p>I do not live in the Bouve LLC (which is currently the 4th floor of Stetson West), although I know almost the whole floor. The LLC is comprised of mostly pharmacy, nursing, and physical therapy majors. Surprisingly, the students are pretty rowdy, although this could just be this year's students. Although they know how to have their fun, they are also pretty serious students. From what I gather, the students in the Bouve LLC this year have a "work hard, play hard" style. </p>
<p>Although I don't know much about the co-ops in the later years, I can speak for the sophomore year one. It is the first co-op and is during the summer following the sophomore year. Students work as pharmacy technicians and make around $12/13 an hour. Because the work is the same in any location, many students choose to do this work at home, in order to avoid wasting money on room & board for the summer. </p>
<p>The co-ops for upperclassmen vary; some students may choose to work in retail management, research, a hospital environment, etc etc. I don't really know how much students earn, but I assume it isn't too shabby. The good thing about pharmacy co-ops is that students aren't stuck doing the typical answering phones/filing papers that business or arts & sciences majors usually do.</p>
<p>A friend of my daughters who is a middler majoring in chemical engineering has a co-op starting in January making $21/hr. Not sure how typical or atypical this salary is.</p>
<p>Since you are a pharmicy major you might be able to answer this, i really want to go to med school and hopfully be able to be a doctor, does NEU have a pre-med or pre-dental major? Is thier a good amount of kids that take the major? If NEU does not have this major are there any kids that you know that are going to NEU and are planning on going to med school and maybe just taking a science major?</p>
<p>Like most other univerisities, Northeastern has a "pre-med" and
"pre-dentistry" concentration in the College of Arts and Sciences. They aren't majors and most student major biology or something of that sort... the concentration allows students to take courses that may help prepare them for medical school and also have an advisor that will be able to help them on their career path. Northeastern is unique in that it offers a "health science" major. It is ideal for students interested in pursuing medical or dental school. If you are interested in learning more about health science, it is offered through the Bouve College of Health Science, which is accessible through the NEU website.</p>
<p>Question about the pharmacy program at Northeastern? My son is a junior in high school. Reading your post, are most of the pharmacy studunts on one floor? Is it kind of like a living community that some other schools offer. Also reading your stats, what do you think your hook, if any was, getting you into the school. You did take alot of ap classes, so you must have had a high weighted gpa. Where else had you applied?</p>
<p>Is the pharmacy program all work and no play? Any info you could give me would be helpful. My son had just decided maybe he would want to take pharmacy and this is all new to me. I had first just thought you could pretty much go anywhere, I had no idea it was so competitive. Thanks!</p>
<p>I'm a current student at NEU and although I'm not a pharmacist-in-training, my two roommates are in edition to a couple more of my friends from high school who go to NEU. </p>
<p>There is a pharmacy LLC, but that's optional. Many of the pharmacy kids know each other anyway because it's a relatively small group taking all the same classes. If you're taking up pharmacy, your schedule is pretty much set in stone for all six years with the exception of some open spots for electives.</p>
<p>One of my friends currently in the program received a $16k merit scholarship and never even took a science-AP in high school. But then again, her SAT score was excellent and her GPA had an upward trend.</p>
<p>It's a pretty tough program, especially in comparison to the liberal arts majors. My friends aren't too fond of biology (which you take for two terms) and I've heard that one student has already transferred out to business. But if you do the work (and yes, it can be tedious), there's no reason you can't get a 3.5+ GPA.</p>
<p>I was accepted into their pharmacy program but only with a 10k/yr scholarship. NEU is really expensive - has anyone heard of getting more merit aid after the RD decisions are done?</p>
<p>Stats - Rank: 1/440, 770V, 680M, 700W (highest scores, took twice), substantial work experience, some volunteer work, NHS, great recs</p>
<p>Also, will being in the honors college and the pharmD program be too hard? I'm not exactly sure what the honors college ask for but I got an offer for them.</p>
<p>EDIT: Also, how competitive are the co-op programs especially if you want to stay close to the university?</p>
<p>NEU is so weird w/ their scholarships...I got $11k/yr (Poli Sci CAS) and my roommate $16k/yr (Pharmacy) even though we're both not in Honors...and my friend who received only $2.5k in merit aid was in honors. Go figure. She's now at NYU w/ a $6k scholarship. The only way you can get significantly more aid is through applying for one of those presidential scholarships a few years down the road. However, there are various smaller scholarships(think in the hundreds and maxing out to a couple of thousand $), like a co-op scholarship.</p>
<p>If you're in Honors, you get some great, brand-new dorms which totally beat all the other options. However, you get that on a first-come, first-serve basis depending upon when you submit your housing deposit.</p>
<p>I am currently a high school junior and right now NEU is my first choice because of its pharmacy program and great co-op. I just would like to know how hard is it to apply directly into it? Also, how would you rate the pharmacy program? I have trouble finding out how NEU stacks up to other schools with PharmD programs. </p>
<p>If it helps, here are my current stats:</p>
<p>GPA: 3.5 (unweighted)
APs: Calc and Lang (in future, I will add Stat and Environmental Science)
College Classes: General Chemistry (next year I am aiming to take either a college language or another science class)
SAT: 2060, W: 650 M:750 R: 660 (Planning to retake and boost scores and I am taking the ACT later this year)
SAT IIs: physics, math 2, and chemistry (again taking it later this year and I feel confident I will get above 650 on each of them) </p>
<p>Also, if you know, is it how difficult is it to get a decent amount ($10000+) of scholarship money?</p>
<p>I'm an entering freshman next year into the Pharmacy program. I originally applied to be in Arts&Sciences Major: biology. I got in, but then I transferred to pharmacy. A very large part of me wonders that had I applied straight into pharmacy if I even would have gotten into Northeastern. According to some admission reps, the pharmacy competition is fierce at NEU.</p>
<p>1) there's only 110 (more or less) spots.
2) NEU closed transfer admissions because of lack of space. there is a decent sized waiting list of people from Northeastern as well as other universities
3) NEU is 1 of 2 pharm schools in Mass; the other is Mass College. many prefer to choose NEU over MCPHS because of the coop and college life
4) NEU also wins over some other pharmacy schools in New England (in my opinion), simply because (as long as you get good grades) the 6 year program is guarenteed to you. UConn's pharmacy program is not guarenteed--a student goes for 2 years undergraduate, then must apply into the pharmacy school, in which there are 100 spots. Northeastern gives me a better sense of security in knowing that in 6 years I could very well have my PharmD :)</p>
<p>It's easiest to enter into the school as a first year, because everyone is essentially in the same boat. If you think you want to do pharmacy but you're in your 3rd year (for example), it will be very hard to get in because the pharm school work starts to be more "pharmacy-oriented". Because of lack of space, it is easier to transfer out of Bouve than it is to transfer in...given, you are transferring into a school that has space (ie/ business school might be tight for space whereas arts&sciences will probably have room).</p>