The past few months I've been lurking tons of pre-pharm forums, including this one. Besides all of the threads on how bad the job market is, there's an equal amount of people saying how easy it is to get accepted compared to previous years.
This sounds completely different from what I've been hearing from advisors at my school (I'm in Canada), so I'm having trouble figuring out if I have good chances or not. My school requires applicants to write the PCAT, they recently made this a requirement 4-5 years ago, which I find odd. Also requires a GPA of at least 3.50 (changed to 3.00 due to lockdowns and such... not sure if this is a good thing or not). I don't remember how many people they accept; I recall it being 50-60 people per intake. Again, this doesn't line up with a lot of the things I'm seeing on forums, so I just want some insight.
I have a 3.79 GPA, not including my current semester. The lowest grade I got was a C+ in biochem, highest grades are 4.50 in calculus 1 and 2 that I took in high school.
Taking the PCAT in a few days. Only studied consistently for a few weeks but I took ochem, biochem, stats, a&p last semester and remember a fair bit of it (except biochem apparently). I'm getting 80-89%tile on Pearson practice tests, lower on Kaplan tests.
Genuinely regretting choosing pharmacy but tiger mom works in a pharmacy (not a pharmacist) and insists that the job market is fine... I have multiple back-up plans for research or other health sciences if I can ever convince her.
This sounds completely different from what I've been hearing from advisors at my school (I'm in Canada), so I'm having trouble figuring out if I have good chances or not. My school requires applicants to write the PCAT, they recently made this a requirement 4-5 years ago, which I find odd. Also requires a GPA of at least 3.50 (changed to 3.00 due to lockdowns and such... not sure if this is a good thing or not). I don't remember how many people they accept; I recall it being 50-60 people per intake. Again, this doesn't line up with a lot of the things I'm seeing on forums, so I just want some insight.
I have a 3.79 GPA, not including my current semester. The lowest grade I got was a C+ in biochem, highest grades are 4.50 in calculus 1 and 2 that I took in high school.
Taking the PCAT in a few days. Only studied consistently for a few weeks but I took ochem, biochem, stats, a&p last semester and remember a fair bit of it (except biochem apparently). I'm getting 80-89%tile on Pearson practice tests, lower on Kaplan tests.
Genuinely regretting choosing pharmacy but tiger mom works in a pharmacy (not a pharmacist) and insists that the job market is fine... I have multiple back-up plans for research or other health sciences if I can ever convince her.