Hi all. Thought I'd make this for everybody planning on applying to UBC this year to discuss applications and interviews and any questions people might have
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Hi all!
Any idea on when interview invitations will be sent out?
Hi,I think some rejections went out today
Hey, I heard back from them last week. I live in the Richmond area and would love to have a partner to practice for these interviews. I also drive so i can pretty much meet anywhere around the Richmond, DT, Vancouver, and Burnaby area. Please let me know if you'd like to practice together or do other exercises to help with the interview!interview invite emails came out today! If anyone is from Vancouver/lower mainland and wants to practice together, let me know!
Anybody applied to UBC as an out-of-Province and received interview invitation?
No problem to make things worse. For about a month one of our professors has continually been saying that we would be given a one pager that pretty much allowed you to work through the cases by understanding them (if you didn't know what to do the one pager won't help you). Our final exam is on Wednesday, we found out this morning that the person controlling the module said no. Not through an actual email sent by the module leader but through a student who asked. The module leader was there the day the prof had said we would be given the one pager and from day one there was no intent to let us use it on our exam but we found out today. I'm transferring out after this year to another pharm school looking at alberta, sask, memorial, and U of T. Absolutely ridiculous there is lecture footage of the prof saying we'll be given the paper and the module lead is sitting there and didn't say a word until today.oh jeez thank you for the warning.. will definitely take that into consideration when making my decision
Are you talking about the pharmD program at UBC? Are you a 2015 start student? Any comments on lhora's persepctive?Love this program. 100%
@pomkat Hey! I'm wondering where did you find out that UBC sends out acceptance letters in mid-May? I was looking at their website and couldn't find anything
Hey just wondering if you guys wanna practice for next week interview??
Yes message me!interview invite emails came out today! If anyone is from Vancouver/lower mainland and wants to practice together, let me know!
JK I posted something pretty mean but I had to change in case the faculty is circulating on these forums. What Ihora says is 100% true though! Most of it is opinion, but it is based on facts of the program. What he or she says its true. Yeah I made this account just to comment on this. Though in my opinion it is NOT worth it to redo pharmacy school but this faculty can fail you pretty easily for very minor issues...or even if you fail like a few quizzes here and there or 1 test. Be careful for what you wish forAre you talking about the pharmD program at UBC? Are you a 2015 start student? Any comments on lhora's persepctive?
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Question for anyone who knows, what is the best way to get to UBC from the Vancouver airport? Is there any kind of shuttle from UBC to the aiport?
http://students.ubc.ca/campus/navigation
Best option is probably just to take a taxi. Public transit is pretty straightforward as well though. It mostly depends on which day you're coming here and at what time.
If you're arriving on the weekend and/or at night time, take a taxi because the transit service slows down then. Oh and there are a ton of Translink attendants around the Skytrain station if you need directions.
Also I asked around and found out that they give us a week after being accepted into the program to confirm our acceptance; and when I asked Carol, she said that they're aiming to send admission letters out around late May.
Did you apply to Toronto or Waterloo? Because their admission status release date is June 19 and 9, respectively (if I remember correctly...). Doesn't that mean we won't be able to hear back before we have to pay the 2k deposit for UBC? D:
JK I posted something pretty mean but I had to change in case the faculty is circulating on these forums. What Ihora says is 100% true though! Most of it is opinion, but it is based on facts of the program. What he or she says its true. Yeah I made this account just to comment on this. Though in my opinion it is NOT worth it to redo pharmacy school but this faculty can fail you pretty easily for very minor issues...or even if you fail like a few quizzes here and there or 1 test. Be careful for what you wish for
No problem to make things worse. For about a month one of our professors has continually been saying that we would be given a one pager that pretty much allowed you to work through the cases by understanding them (if you didn't know what to do the one pager won't help you). Our final exam is on Wednesday, we found out this morning that the person controlling the module said no. Not through an actual email sent by the module leader but through a student who asked. The module leader was there the day the prof had said we would be given the one pager and from day one there was no intent to let us use it on our exam but we found out today. I'm transferring out after this year to another pharm school looking at alberta, sask, memorial, and U of T. Absolutely ridiculous there is lecture footage of the prof saying we'll be given the paper and the module lead is sitting there and didn't say a word until today.
JK I posted something pretty mean but I had to change in case the faculty is circulating on these forums. What Ihora says is 100% true though! Most of it is opinion, but it is based on facts of the program. What he or she says its true. Yeah I made this account just to comment on this. Though in my opinion it is NOT worth it to redo pharmacy school but this faculty can fail you pretty easily for very minor issues...or even if you fail like a few quizzes here and there or 1 test. Be careful for what you wish for
Hmm sounds pretty harsh for just pharmacy.
Not sounding like a professional program. You say not worth it to redo, and by that I take it redo it if you fail enough quizzes to redo the semester/year.
Wish I had more interviews from other schools as I'll be on the public transpo everyday if accepted. And we all know public transpo in Van is unreliable.
On a different note, any word on the job prospects of pharmacy in Van or greater Van for full-time jobs?
I hear mixed reviews with most pointing towards starting PT and trying to slide into a FT eventually. Wages I hear are around 75k full time to start. Now that you're first year pharm, what are the rumors for wages and job prospects?
I also heard some Pharmacy companies may pay incentives to sign up for 5 years worth of work. Any rumors of this from people in the program?
I'm new to SDN, not sure if this is the right place for additional discussion topics, as this "applicant class of 2020" is officially done with interviews tomorrow.
Whatever you heard about the job market seems pretty optimistic. I think over 60K is very rare, seeing that it is PT and Floating are the mainly what's available in Lower Mainland.
I applied to Toronto!
So yeah I think we'd have to pay the 2k deposit at UBC before we get a chance to hear back from Toronto. (Personally I lose 2k$ either way though because with the cost of applying to Toronto + flying there + hotel + taxi + PCAT it worked out to around 2k T-T)
My friend was saying that they had only charged a 250$ deposit last year so I'm at a loss as to why they jacked it up to 8x that...
omg are you serious ... why would they do that to us. and yeah same here I lost around 2k to Vancouver for the interview... -_-
I have no idea T-T
I'm hoping it's just a typo and that they meant 200$, but I guess we'll find out later on.
LOL I hope so too!!
If you get in both schools, which is your first choice? :O
Honestly not 100% sure of that yet.
I'm leaning towards UBC because I live here so I wouldn't have to pay rent, plus I have a really chill part time job here in Vancouver so I don't really want to give that up.
Toronto is really appealing though. Everyone was super nice there and their program has been running for a few years now so there should be less technical issues compared to UBC.
How about yourself?
Same here, but my reason is the opposite aha... I want to experience living at the west coast since I find Ontario quite boring I've heard UofT's program is harder though from friends, but I'm not sure ...
$2000 is probably not a mistake. They really want you to commit before you find out acceptances to other schools.