Applying to 5 or 6 year schools as freshman

[islsk]

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Is it possible to apply to be a freshman at a 5 or 6 year school when you have already taken a year or two of classes at another school?

Basically, I had two terrible terms and I do not think I would be able to get into pharmacy school unless I start over.

I had a 3.4 GPA in high school and 1290 out of 1600 on the OLD SAT ( equal to about 1950 out of 2400 on the new SAT).

My college GPA was about 3.6 until the two bad terms.

If I apply at a 6 year school and list only my high school stats, would they be able to kick me out if they discovered that I did not list my info from another university?

 

[diastole]

Hiding classwork is never a good idea. Just how bad were your two terms? If you go on to complete your degree and improve your grades, you might not be as bad off as you think. You can always make up for a bad term or two with improved grade trend, a great PCAT, excellent LORs, pharmacy experience and other ECs. Grades are only one part of your application and you still have time to show that those two terms were a fluke.

 

[themulya]

So heres my straight forward honest opinion. Hiding information is stupid. It speaks volumes about your character and who you are. It's not a good quality in any person, pharmacist or not. To answer your last question, yes they can and will kick you out of any program if they found out you got in under false pretenses.

First off, 0-6 programs are there for students straight out of high school. Your high school transcripts and SAT scores would show that you are a couple of years out of high school. How would you explain what you have been doing with your time if you hide your college grades?

Secondly and most importantly, own up to your mistakes. Whats done is done and the only direction you can move in now is forward. Don't think that its over because you had a bad year. The fact that you've only been in college a couple of years means that you still have time to turn things around. There's a reason why you had a bad year. I don't know if it was your study skills or whatever but something went wrong. You need to find that problem and fix it, because even in you did somehow get into an 0-6 program, that problem would still be there and I don't think you would do any better than you did now.

What you need to do now is show improvement. You need to get good grades the rest of the way. Learn from you mistakes, acknowlegedge that you have made some, and start building from there. The worst thing you can do is pretend it never happened because then you never learned anything. I've said this in another thread before, but someone in your position needs to focus on getting good grades rather than on getting into pharmacy school. Once you've done better in school, then start thinking about applications and such.