Originally Posted by aanickaa

Perhaps - it hurt me while others found it positive if they didn't do so well in their first year pre-reqs. Interview will still strongly influence whether you get in or not, so dropping a couple of % on your academics isn't a huge problem that you could recover from the MMI. And positive thinking, you save a few thousand dollars for taking most, if not all, of those upper-year pre-reqs in first year pharm... (~$70 extra/credit)

~30% of last year's class already had a degree entering the program.