stupid question, but i'm just curious. For my school, I need a minimum of 3.0 gpa overall and in the sciences and mathematics for the pre-requisites in order to reserve a spot for the pharmd program. I remember one person saying that I was lucky, meaning that person must get...i don't know, a 3.5 gpa minimum? I'm a little curious to know what gpa you must maintain in your school.

I'd consider a 3.0 'minimum' very lucky, I can give you some stats from my school:

Last year's class had an application average GPA of ~3.70.

This is Memorial University's School of Pharmacy, in Canada.

wow...really don't know what to say; i think i should change my name from luckypharmd.stu to veryluckyrxstu. yeah, i think i should do that.

Keep in mind though that the minimum for the school and the actual average GPA that you are going to need to stay competitive are going to be different.

Just keep in mind that they will try their hardest to weed students out during your first two years...

yup, in here, it starts from 1000 pharmacy students to 150 at the beginning of third year; and this school's average gpa is 3.5. The minimum is 3.0.

what school do you go to that would accept 1000 pre-pharmacy students?!?!? That's crazy

what school do you go to that would accept 1000 pre-pharmacy students?!?!? That's crazy
lol
my school had probably that......
it was just that they declared pre-pharm as their major...

just like everyone is pre-med prior to chemistry

the majority of the people actually is majoring in pre-pharmacy here. hmm...I thought 1000 people sounded reasonable. It's a private school, on top of that. I guess people, including me, are desperate to find a good job, no matter how hard the subject is (which is a bad reason to sign up for any major).

I think there were 600 'pre-pharmacy' majors here for 40 spots in the pharmacy school. This ratio is 15:1, try to skim your #'s down to ratios for easy comparisons.

"I guess people, including me, are desperate to find a good job, no matter how hard the subject is (which is a bad reason to sign up for any major)."

Why would wanting a good job be a bad reason to sign up for a hard major? You do realize that is the benefit of obtaining a 'hard major'? Luckypharm are you just out of high school? j/w.

I'm just saying that there should be other important reasons of why someone should major pharmacy; I should've said that specifically. Anyways, yea I'm 18 and graduated high school. I'm starting college in a couple of days.

luckyPharmD.stu: "I'm just saying that there should be other important reasons of why someone should major pharmacy; I should've said that specifically. Anyways, yea I'm 18 and graduated high school. I'm starting college in a couple of days. "

There 'should' be, but sometimes it all comes down to some underlying facts of the guaranteed job security, high wages, etc that will just draw anyone like moths to a flame; the idea here is that's life. If they really aren't meant for the job trust me, the general public will be one of the first to let you know you aren't doing your job right.

of course all of those reasons are very important; but to me, just majoring what you love should be the number 1 reason. And the job stability, along with salary, comes right after that.