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I have a overall GPA or 2.9 and a Pre req of 2.8.....what are my chances of getting in to a Cali Pharm school (public & Private)? What about out of state?

I'm planning on taking the PCATs in Jan......I've been working @ a biotech company for about 2 years.....n i'm planning on taking a few classes at a State School to Boost up my GPA. If I can fit it in i'm planning on volunteering at a local pharmacy (Longs probably)

I'm gona apply for 2010.
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do you have a bachelors? Since your gpa is on the low side, I would say very high reach for UCSD and ucsf and your essay is very crucial. I would apply to the newer schools [eg. california northstate]
 
yes graduated from UC Davis in 2006....been working since as a Research Assistant. I have a decent amount of research experience....

wat about PCATs.....would it be of any value to take those for CA schools....do they even look at ur scores if u take them.
 
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skyrit17 said:
yes graduated from UC Davis in 2006....been working since as a Research Assistant. I have a decent amount of research experience....

wat about PCATs.....would it be of any value to take those for CA schools....do they even look at ur scores if u take them.
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No, the two schools you mentioned above don't look at PCAT at all. It is GPA + ECs.
 
skyrit17 said:
yes graduated from UC Davis in 2006.
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this is not surprising as seemingly everyone from UCDAVIS has mediocre GPAs. this explains why the average entering GPA for north cali pharmacy schools are only about 3.2 (touro, ucsf, uop) since Ucdavis is like one of the main feeder schools.
i say your 2.9 gpa from Davis has a true value of 3.1 so keep your head up.

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cystapharm said:
this is not surprising as seemingly everyone from UCDAVIS has mediocre GPAs. this explains why the average entering GPA for north cali pharmacy schools are only about 3.2 (touro, ucsf, uop) since Ucdavis is like one of the main feeder schools.
i say your 2.9 gpa from Davis has a true value of 3.1 so keep your head up.

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I believe that for sure, but not sure adcoms do.
 
adcoms??

I didn't do well in my O-chem series at all (C's). Is there any value to taking them over at either a state school or a JC?
 
What is the best website for pharm school profiles? (Ave GPA & PCAT req)
 
I was in your shoes last year (UC grad w/ research experience and ~3.0 GPA, 92 PCAT). You'll HAVE to get that GPA up, or else your only chance of getting in would be newer programs (open <2 years). The only CA "school" you can get into is Cal Northstate.

You can probably get into a better quality school out of state. But if you're set on CA, your chances/opportunities are slim.

Kill the PCAT and apply out of state, or you'll be stuck 2-3 years remediating classes. Or, you can always do a SMP to boost GPA/add an extra degree to your name. Waste of time/money IMO.
 
cystapharm said:
this is not surprising as seemingly everyone from UCDAVIS has mediocre GPAs. this explains why the average entering GPA for north cali pharmacy schools are only about 3.2 (touro, ucsf, uop) since Ucdavis is like one of the main feeder schools.
i say your 2.9 gpa from Davis has a true value of 3.1 so keep your head up.

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I wouldn't say that haha
 
cystapharm said:
this explains why the average entering GPA for north cali pharmacy schools are only about 3.2 (touro, ucsf, uop) since Ucdavis is like one of the main feeder schools.
i say your 2.9 gpa from Davis has a true value of 3.1 so keep your head up.

🙂
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You are 100% wrong, please cite your sources.

UCSF cGPA average = 3.58
source: http://pharmacy.ucsf.edu/pharmd/admissions/aboutstudents/

UOP cGPA average = 3.4
http://www.pacific.edu/admission/pharmd/PharmDadmissions.htm

couldn't find touro

and a 2.9 at Davis is probably a 3.0 at best compared to CC's...I wouldn't be so optimistic about the "UC bump"
 
cystapharm said:
this is not surprising as seemingly everyone from UCDAVIS has mediocre GPAs. this explains why the average entering GPA for north cali pharmacy schools are only about 3.2 (touro, ucsf, uop) since Ucdavis is like one of the main feeder schools.
i say your 2.9 gpa from Davis has a true value of 3.1 so keep your head up.

🙂
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Where are you getting your average GPA stats? I was accepted to both Touro and UOP (I chose to go to UOP).

The dean from Touro emailed the class and said that the average GPA for the 2008 entering class was 3.35.

During orientation for UOP, a faculty member said that the average GPA was 3.4

I'm pretty sure the average GPA for UCSF was around 3.5-3.6
 
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I definitely plan on doing a postbac (same as SMP i'm thinking) starting in Jan & I'm currently taking a anatomy class at a JC.

Some advice on what sort of classes to take for my bostbac would be great. The school i'm going doesn't specify. From wat i understand you can take any science classes. I'm thinking of retaking my o-chem and biochem classes....figure it would be helpful. Any sort of info on how post-bacs work would be really nice.

I do prefer to stay in CA but not necessary. No harm in trying though!
I plan on applying both in and out of state!
 
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I would take: immunology, biochemistry, physiology, molecular biology, and microbiology. Brush up on general and organic chemistry too, but I think the biology side of things has more relevance than chem, but the chem will help with admissions.

Apply to new programs that opened in 2008 and are opening in 2009.
 
I've actually actually already taken all those courses......guessing it ok to repeat them. Would it be better to take other science courses? I really don't mind taking them over again just want to make sure that's the best way to go.
 
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You are 100% wrong, please cite your sources.

UCSF cGPA average = 3.58
source: http://pharmacy.ucsf.edu/pharmd/admissions/aboutstudents/

UOP cGPA average = 3.4
http://www.pacific.edu/admission/pharmd/PharmDadmissions.htm

couldn't find touro

and a 2.9 at Davis is probably a 3.0 at best compared to CC's...I wouldn't be so optimistic about the "UC bump"
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i spoke to a counselor at Davis who spoke to adcoms or dean or soemthing from UOP and the counselor said that Davis is tough and that a 3.2 GPA is worth 3.4. I don't remember the lady that said that but if i see her face again I will know since I spoke to her at one of the heath profession seminars. she said a lot of schools are aware of that.

Touro's average GPA last year is about 3.2 and the number one feeder school is UCDAVIS.
Also, if you look at UCSF's average about a year ago (i attended their info session) it's around 3.30 ...definitely not 3.6!
UOP is 3.34 (I also attended their open house)

point is, many poeple I talk to that goes to Davis have GPAs of 2.8-3.4 while many of my freinds from so cal have higher GPAs.
 
adcom won't inflate your grade because you went to a perceived "harder" college.

As long as your school is accredited, most pharm schools will look at your grades as it is written on your transcripts. Adcom does have a chart or any notion of what school is harder than the next. This is why CC/JC students continue to be accepted, even against people who went to prestigious 4 year universities.

Bottom line is that regardless of what school you graduated from, and what pharmacy school you plan on applying to, you will be competing against students who have stellar grades, even from undergrad programs in which you attended. You want to increase your chances of getting accepted? There is only one way to do it for cali schools, and that is bring your gpa up.

Also, if I had to apply all over again, i'd take the "average gpa" with a grain of salt, you don't know what the deviation is, and even then, if you are "average" you only have a 50/50 chance at best at determining your odds of getting accepted. You also have to realize that those stats are from last year, you don't know what the average gpa/stats are for this year. For all you know, the bar could have been raised this year (as it has been for the last 5 years or so).

You can cite sources and rationalize as to why you think you have a better chance of getting in, but in the end, it doesn't matter if you don't get in. Only sure way of increasing your chances is to bring up your gpa, and that in itself is no guarantee admittance.
 
cystapharm said:
i spoke to a counselor at Davis who spoke to adcoms or dean or soemthing from UOP and the counselor said that Davis is tough and that a 3.2 GPA is worth 3.4. I don't remember the lady that said that but if i see her face again I will know since I spoke to her at one of the heath profession seminars. she said a lot of schools are aware of that.

Touro's average GPA last year is about 3.2 and the number one feeder school is UCDAVIS.
Also, if you look at UCSF's average about a year ago (i attended their info session) it's around 3.30 ...definitely not 3.6!
UOP is 3.34 (I also attended their open house)

point is, many poeple I talk to that goes to Davis have GPAs of 2.8-3.4 while many of my freinds from so cal have higher GPAs.
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Soo...your sources are:

1) a counselor at UC Davis that says your Davis degree is worth more and is speaking on behalf of "a lot of schools" that are "aware" of this fact.

2) your own personal memory from a UCSF info session held "about a year ago"

I'm sorry but...that's not going to work. I gave everyone hard numbers, your data is more vague than WorldCom's accounting books.

Also, there's no such thing as a "feeder" school. It's a perceived geographic idea based on the fact that people in California don't like to leave their area. Lowell high in SF is a "feeder" school for Berkeley...because they're both in the Bay Area! Imagine my surprise when someone says Notre Dame academy is a feeder school to UCLA.

But this is moot point anyway, there's at least half a dozen other factors that are going to affect the OP's app. file.
 
Yea, I actually went to UOP's open house last weekend and asked them whether they took into consideration where we went to school. They told me that they pretty much look at all the 4-year universities the same.
 
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Soo...your sources are:

1) a counselor at UC Davis that says your Davis degree is worth more and is speaking on behalf of "a lot of schools" that are "aware" of this fact.

2) your own personal memory from a UCSF info session held "about a year ago"

I'm sorry but...that's not going to work. I gave everyone hard numbers, your data is more vague than WorldCom's accounting books.

Also, there's no such thing as a "feeder" school. It's a perceived geographic idea based on the fact that people in California don't like to leave their area. Lowell high in SF is a "feeder" school for Berkeley...because they're both in the Bay Area! Imagine my surprise when someone says Notre Dame academy is a feeder school to UCLA.

But this is moot point anyway, there's at least half a dozen other factors that are going to affect the OP's app. file.
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This is how I think adcoms determine the quality of your GPA:
They compare it to the average...not of the applicant pool...but of the intuition from which you attended. so if they receive a bunch of applications from UCDavis with people with 3.2 GPAs then a person with that GPA is considered competitive. Same for Berkeley and any other colleges for that matter...if UCSF receives a bunch of 3.6's from Berkeley and yours is 3.2 then your GPA is not competitive but a 3.2 GPA from Davis is.
 
cystapharm said:
This is how I think adcoms determine the quality of your GPA:
They compare it to the average...not of the applicant pool...but of the intuition from which you attended. so if they receive a bunch of applications from UCDavis with people with 3.2 GPAs then a person with that GPA is considered competitive. Same for Berkeley and any other colleges for that matter...if UCSF receives a bunch of 3.6's from Berkeley and yours is 3.2 then your GPA is not competitive but a 3.2 GPA from Davis is.
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Mmmm I strongly disagree, you are not judged from your individual school, you are judged against the strength of the entire applicant pool. We're already reviewing applications for the fall 09 class and directly comparing applicants within schools would be a logistical nightmare.

It would be easy if there were, say, only 5 schools from which your applicants are coming from, but with CA schools getting thousands of applications from hundreds of schools, this is not going to happen. The system you're proposing inherently puts students from a small, prestigious school at a disadvantage.

Though I do agree 4-year universities are judged differently, the "GPA bump" amounts to 0.1. So if you want it simplified, a 3.8 at Berkeley (on the prestige scale) equates to about a 3.9 at Davis, or 4.0 on the CC level, all other things being equal (which is never the case, btw).

Bottom line, you're judged against the entire applicant pool on the merits of your entire application. The system is too complex to simplify it down wrt GPA's & school prestige. But, hey, we do it because it makes us feel better.
 
what do you mean by "we're receiving"? are you working for a pharmacy school?

it's true that they receive applications from hundreds of schools but since it's Cali they rarely look at community college applicants with no bachelors unless something about their application stands out tremendously (2 out of 120 get in w/o one so already that has screened out a lot of people)..so this narrows it down to only about 20 universities..mainly the UCs and Cal states. For a school within that particuluar pharmcy campus region they receive the most applications so they are well aware of the average without having to go through some sort of logistical comparison system or whatnot. Regarding out of state applicants I'm sure they have other means of determining whether that person is competitve. the bottom line is while GPA is important, what's more important is how well you do against your classmates. This is similar to the idea of professors using a curve scale when giving you a grade...like how a 50/100 is not always an F but may actualy be A+ so a 3.2 from Davis is decent if everyone there has that GPA.
 
cystapharm said:
Touro's average GPA last year is about 3.2 and the number one feeder school is UCDAVIS.
Also, if you look at UCSF's average about a year ago (i attended their info session) it's around 3.30 ...definitely not 3.6!
UOP is 3.34 (I also attended their open house)

point is, many poeple I talk to that goes to Davis have GPAs of 2.8-3.4 while many of my freinds from so cal have higher GPAs.
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Ok, let me clear some stuff up about the average GPA's for UCSF, UOP and Touro.

Touro's average GPA for the 2008 entering class was 3.35 (I mis-typed "3.38" with my earlier post). The dean emailed the entire 2008 class with the statistics during the summer.
http://www.tu.edu/user_files/25/COPdemo.htm <----- average GPA for 2008 class
http://www.pharmcas.org/collegesschools/schooltouropage.htm <----- expected GPA for 2009 class


UOP's average GPA for the 2008 entering class was 3.4 (I'm currrently attending UOP and these stats were given to us during orientation).
http://www.pharmcas.org/collegesschools/schoolUOPpage.htm <----- expected GPA for 2009 class


UCSF's average GPA was around 3.5-3.6 (I interviewed in February). It's arguably the #1 pharmacy school in the nation; their average GPA is nowhere near 3.2.
http://pharmacy.ucsf.edu/pharmd/admi...aboutstudents/ <----- average GPA for 2007
http://www.pharmcas.org/collegesschools/schoolUCSFpage.htm <----- average GPA for 2008 (I think)
 
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Hopes and dreams can be a powerful thing, even leading you to believe that adcom will inflate your gpa so you are on equal footing with other applicants.

However, then you wake up and realize that you need to bring up your gpa. Just hope your wake up call doesn't come after you get a rejection letter.
 
cystapharm said:
what do you mean by "we're receiving"? are you working for a pharmacy school?

it's true that they receive applications from hundreds of schools but since it's Cali they rarely look at community college applicants with no bachelors unless something about their application stands out tremendously (2 out of 120 get in w/o one so already that has screened out a lot of people)..so this narrows it down to only about 20 universities..mainly the UCs and Cal states. For a school within that particuluar pharmcy campus region they receive the most applications so they are well aware of the average without having to go through some sort of logistical comparison system or whatnot. Regarding out of state applicants I'm sure they have other means of determining whether that person is competitve. the bottom line is while GPA is important, what's more important is how well you do against your classmates. This is similar to the idea of professors using a curve scale when giving you a grade...like how a 50/100 is not always an F but may actualy be A+ so a 3.2 from Davis is decent if everyone there has that GPA.
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Okay for the sake of argument, let's assume this is 100% correct. Explain for me how would you quantify the "quality" of the program the applicant has gone through?

If you say US News and World Report, I'm going to laugh in your face.
 
there are many ways of assessing the quality of undergrad programs. one way is to compare how well a current pharmacy school student does to another student that came from a different undergrad institution that had the same GPA..same way they compare how community college rigor is to universitie's. if i were on the adcom and review a thousand transcripts and see that students get better grades at cc then get lower grades at a university then I will know cc is easier but the truth is a lot of people get the same grades regardless so thats's why they say it's not important where you take your prereqs..in california at least i don't knonw abotu out-of-state. I know for sure my grades didn't change much..I acgtualy did a little better at university than at cc. back to the point: if 3.0 students from Davis gets acccepted and does poor in pharmacy school do you think they will raise the standards for that school? yes right? the truth is if they see that 3.2 Daivs students do just as well or better than 3.5 for example, UCLA students then they will continue accepting those students and that is one way they assess the quality of the institution and thus some students with low GPAs still get accepted. while you should always strive for best and there are lots of things studnets can control, for example amount of EC, experieince, work, etc. but the amount a A's professors give is not always the same at every university. like i've said...it's all about how well you do compared to others at your same institution.

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^^ Okay that sounds fair enough, but I still disagree about how it is done.

The first problem with this is that it assumes one students takes all of their prerequisites at ONE college/university, which is rarely the case (I had 5 listed schools ranging from UC's, CC's, and CSU's). This somewhat spoils the pot, so to speak, as how do you start docking students for taking CC classes? If you're trying to compare applicants to matriculated students, you further lower your comparison pool because of this "CC/Other school" wild card.

Another issue is that students from one school don't all take the exact same courses, which skews your cGPA. sGPA is a little easier to standardize, but if you have an English major who took prereq's vs. a biochemistry major, that once again further erodes your comparison pool.

Lastly, this sets a dangerous precedent in that you're comparing previous applicants to current applicants in a way that is out of the direct control of the applicant. This doesn't side well with the general idea that adcoms look for overcoming adversity and positive change by the applicant.

So I still say that school prestige adds nothing more than a halo effect to your application, much in the same way good handwriting makes a handwritten essay read better.

I'm curious to see if there's significant differences in PharmD graduation rates between individual 4-year institutions. I somehow doubt it, but if you can prove significance, then sir you'd win your case.
 
Well all I know is it seems to me all UCD students I speak to applying to Pschool have extremely low GPAs..like in the 3.2 range if not lower, even matriculated students so it made sense that because pharamcy schools can't reject all UCD students then the accepted students with low GPAs from that school just reflect the size of the applicant pool that had low GPAs so if yours doesn't deviate too much from average then you'd have less to compete with. this really has nothing to do with prestige of the school but rather a statisical advantage.
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they must be smarter than you cuz from what I read your gpa was only 3.0

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haha, ah touche.

but see...it doesn't matter, because last i checked, my status wasn't "pre-pharmacy" 😎
 
cystapharm said:
Well all I know is it seems to me all UCD students I speak to applying to Pschool have extremely low GPAs..like in the 3.2 range if not lower, even matriculated students so it made sense that because pharamcy schools can't reject all UCD students then the accepted students with low GPAs from that school just reflect the size of the applicant pool that had low GPAs so if yours doesn't deviate too much from average then you'd have less to compete with. this really has nothing to do with prestige of the school but rather a statisical advantage.
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lol..to be honest, UCD isn't really an academic powerhouse that you can justify for low gpa. You can defend a 3.2 if you go to like MIT or that kind of school. Davis is ehh...
 
If I said adcoms throw out all under 3.0 GPA applications, except for a few that have lots of extracurricular activities and then randomly pick applicants from 3.0-4.0 GPA range. Could you prove me wrong?

The thing is, its all subjective. Some schools might prefer one school over another. Other schools might not care which school you went to even if it was CC from boon town. No one here really knows unless they work in an admission committee.

If multiple students a year ahead of you from same school got similar GPA to yours (like under .05 difference) and similar extracurricular and all got into a certain school then I think your chances are great for that school, but nothing is guaranteed.
 
Hello all, from California

How important are EC activities?

I have a higher GPA,
3.5 semesters of General Chem
3.33 2 semesters of OChem
have a 3.5 in 1 year of cell biology,
3.5 in 1 year of English
Taking psychological biology
Need Speech
Need Anatomy and Physiology (done by next year)

My EC's have been limited to:

Part time personal training

1 month of work at a pharmacy pharmacy
ZERO research!!!!

Would it help if I get my pharm tech this winter and work as a pharm tech this summer?

I'm freaking out because it seems like Pharm schools don't choose on GPA but rather EC's. Am I wrong?!?!?
 
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cjf said:
I'm freaking out because it seems like Pharm schools don't choose on GPA but rather EC's. Am I wrong?!?!?
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GPA is still the #1 admissions factor, so you sound fine.
 
I said it was #1. I didn't say it was the SOLE criterion in getting in.
 
cjf said:
Do you believe pharmacy work experience is the type of 'extra' thing they are looking for?
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I think it helps. The experience itself on paper doesn't mean much IMO, any jackass with half a brain can be a pharmacy clerk. It's when it comes up in an interview that makes the difference.

I think the #2 overall determinant for getting into school is the interview (#1 once they've actually offered it to you) Once they offer you an interview, it's validation that you're good enough on paper (ie have the GPA, test scores, etc...) for their program. By working in a pharmacy (hospital, retail, LTC, etc..) you have that much more ammo to work with during the interview.

If you're good, you can relate the most mundane day-to-day experiences to the bigger picture of pharmacy as a whole and where it's going.
 
confettiflyer said:
I was in your shoes last year (UC grad w/ research experience and ~3.0 GPA, 92 PCAT). You'll HAVE to get that GPA up, or else your only chance of getting in would be newer programs (open <2 years). The only CA "school" you can get into is Cal Northstate.

You can probably get into a better quality school out of state. But if you're set on CA, your chances/opportunities are slim.

Kill the PCAT and apply out of state, or you'll be stuck 2-3 years remediating classes. Or, you can always do a SMP to boost GPA/add an extra degree to your name. Waste of time/money IMO.
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Your best chance to getting into a CA school is Cal Northstate.

But then again, like many California Pharmacy schools, doesn't Cal Northstate have a 5 to 6 year expiration date on your pre-req classes?

You say you graduated in 2006. If you took pre-reqs in 2002 and your applying for 2009 entering class, then its possible you might have to retake some classes considered 6 years old. The only way to know for sure is to call Cal Northstate and ask.

If I were you, I would broaden my chances and study my butt off for the PCAT. Apply everywhere and come back to work in Cali after you graduate from Pharmacy school. good luck. 🙂
 
confettiflyer said:
I think it helps. The experience itself on paper doesn't mean much IMO, any jackass with half a brain can be a pharmacy clerk. It's when it comes up in an interview that makes the difference.

I think the #2 overall determinant for getting into school is the interview (#1 once they've actually offered it to you) Once they offer you an interview, it's validation that you're good enough on paper (ie have the GPA, test scores, etc...) for their program. By working in a pharmacy (hospital, retail, LTC, etc..) you have that much more ammo to work with during the interview.

If you're good, you can relate the most mundane day-to-day experiences to the bigger picture of pharmacy as a whole and where it's going.
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I see what you're saying confettiflyer.

I know California schools say they don't require a PCAT...but do they give an advantage to applicants who did take the test?
 
cjf said:
I know California schools say they don't require a PCAT...but do they give an advantage to applicants who did take the test?
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For once I can't answer this one...haha, I've heard so many things ranging from "They'll glance at it and say 'oh, that's nice...'" to pushing people from one side of the fence to the other.

From personal experience, a 92 PCAT and a 3.06 cGPA didn't land me an interview @ USC, if that helps.
 
skyrit17 said:
I have a overall GPA or 2.9 and a Pre req of 2.8.....what are my chances of getting in to a Cali Pharm school (public & Private)? What about out of state?

I'm planning on taking the PCATs in Jan......I've been working @ a biotech company for about 2 years.....n i'm planning on taking a few classes at a State School to Boost up my GPA. If I can fit it in i'm planning on volunteering at a local pharmacy (Longs probably)

I'm gona apply for 2010.
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you're chances are small. it's possible but realize that possibility is usually the exception to the rule and not the rule. i've worked with pharmacist with your gpa that have gotten in to the top cali schools, ucsf, usc, but they had some pretty good ec's to make up for it. it's a given that your personal statement has to be top notch with that gpa, and you really got to be doing some ec's like peace corps or something like that. yes it's possible but it's not likely.
 
Hi Everyone,

I graduated from UC Davis in 2005 with a cumulative GPA of 3.85
I'm thinking of applying to CA pharmacy schools for admission into fall of 2010

I have been working for the last 3 years (2 years at Stanford and the last year at a Biotech company in the bay area in the research department). I have a lot of research experience.

I have 0 pharmacy experience.

I have not taken the PCAT's

What do you think my chances are of getting into the California schools? My top choices are UCSF and UOP. Does UOP look at PCAT scores?

Should I work with a pharmacist to get more experience? Should I take the PCAT? I'm not looking to apply outside of CA. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanx.
 
Shirmoz said:
Hi Everyone,

I graduated from UC Davis in 2005 with a cumulative GPA of 3.85
I'm thinking of applying to CA pharmacy schools for admission into fall of 2010

I have been working for the last 3 years (2 years at Stanford and the last year at a Biotech company in the bay area in the research department). I have a lot of research experience.

I have 0 pharmacy experience.

I have not taken the PCAT's

What do you think my chances are of getting into the California schools? My top choices are UCSF and UOP. Does UOP look at PCAT scores?

Should I work with a pharmacist to get more experience? Should I take the PCAT? I'm not looking to apply outside of CA. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanx.
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You dont need experience but YOU DO NEED A LETTER OF REC FROM A PHARMACIST
 
Shirmoz said:
Hi Everyone,

I graduated from UC Davis in 2005 with a cumulative GPA of 3.85
I'm thinking of applying to CA pharmacy schools for admission into fall of 2010

I have been working for the last 3 years (2 years at Stanford and the last year at a Biotech company in the bay area in the research department). I have a lot of research experience.

I have 0 pharmacy experience.

I have not taken the PCAT's

What do you think my chances are of getting into the California schools? My top choices are UCSF and UOP. Does UOP look at PCAT scores?

Should I work with a pharmacist to get more experience? Should I take the PCAT? I'm not looking to apply outside of CA. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Thanx.
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You'll get in, apply to UCSF, UOP, UCSD, USC... just to increase your chances. They don't REQUIRE pharmacy experience, you might want to do some volunteering just to get a letter of rec for UOP. Just as long as your interview isn't terrible you should be a shoe in.
 
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