Am I applying too late?

[bulldog1123]

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Hi,

I am currently about to finish my PharmCAS application and have already requested my transcripts to be sent a couple days ago. I will be taking the PCAT at the end of this month. My two questions are a) am I applying too late and b) what chances do I have (I legitimately have grown to enjoy pharmacy so please no "if you have a pulse you will get in, or reevaluate your career choices).

I am an odd case though. I made poor academic choices in my 4 undergrad years and ended up with a GPA of 2.1 with over 120+ credits. It was a sum of giving zero effort in class and lack of maturity.

After some serious soul searching and accepting that I put myself in this situation, I apply to a major university in Atlanta and worked on rehabilitating my academic image. It took a while to overcome the poor study habits I had accumulated but graduated with my BS in Neuroscience in 4 semesters of 20+ hours. I pleaded my situation to the Dean of Admissions for the Masters program at my university at was accepted where I currently am about to finish my Biology MS with a current GPA of 3.55 and should end this December with a 3.6+. Unforunately I had so many credits of poor academic work that my cumulative is still a 2.4 when I finish my MS.

I have worked as a Pharm tech at CVS Pharmacy for about two years now and really built my passion for it there. I do neuroscience research at the same time along with teaching introductory biology lab and am a lab assistant as well. I will have two PharmD letters of recommendations and two more from professors whose upper level biology classes I have taken.

With my app submitted this Sunday (10/11) and PCAT taken at the end of Oct, have I entered the app cycle too late with my poor stats? Would a 80th percentile or higher PCAT help push me over the top?

Any suggestions/guidance would help. Thanks. I will be contacting some Pharmacy schools next week, but wanted to get some opinions on here as well.

 

[RxStudentatUB]

There is no such thing as too late when looking at pharmacy school deadlines. Some schools need to meet their quota so deadlines are actually extended!

 

[pyan9]

Some schools are rolling admissions, first-come and first-serve basis whereas others won't start looking at applications until after the Nov. 2nd deadline (or whenever their deadlines are). As long as you have everything in for the Nov. 2nd deadline schools you should be good 😉 For rolling admissions, more than likely they have already started accepting 1-2/3 of their class already so you will be competing for the last spots. ie. UOP in CA.

Idk about your stats in particular, I would just assume schools take a bunch of things into consideration and be optimistic and apply since you've worked this hard to get this far into your educational endeavors.

 

[bulldog1123]

I am aiming for all the Georgia schools. Is there any else I should consider where I would have a better shot?