Congrats to those who have been accepted and those who were granted interviews 🙂
If you're accepted be ready to study like mad! Northstate offers a tough curriculum, and we do more than just sit and listen while the professor lectures. Northstate isn't a school for those who want to be "lick and stick" pharmacists, they make sure we understand concepts and are able to communicate and apply what we've learned to case studies and what not. The pharmacist's role is expanding, and Northstate is getting us ready for it. It can be very stressful, but you will build tight connections with your classmates due to the team based learning as well. It's not one of those schools where everyone is pretty much on their own. You're put in a team, build connections with them, and the following semester you're put in another team. I thought it was pretty cool because it's a good way to know your fellow classmates. And I believe these connections will benefit everyone after graduation when we become practicing pharmacists.
Oh and our schedule is being changed as well, so that Fall semester will end before Thanksgiving 👍 So you could fly home for Thanksgiving and Christmas if you'd like. This past year for Fall many of us flew home for Thanksgiving, had to come back to finish and for finals, and then fly home again for Christmas. I like this new schedule much better.
Errr, I guess that's it. We're in our first week back for the Spring semester and I just wanted to stop by and give any info I could to potential future classmates. Best of luck to you all, hope to see you next Fall. Time for me to get back to studying.