Ditching College Grades?

[wightOlore]

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Hi, I'm a 'pre-pharmacy' student looking for a foot in the door at ANY pharmacy school. I feel that once I have my foot in the door I will be able to impress my superiors by my motivation and in-class performance.
However, my grades in college are not the best due to my career indecision up until 8 months ago. At first, I wanted to be a computer programmer, then a chemistry major (only), and finally, with my experience at CVS/pharmacy I have decided pharmacy is THE career choice for me.
My GPA in college are cumulative ~2.9, and a science GPA of ~2.5 - 2.6. These grades were achieved at a private institution (College of Wooster), and now I'm found at the local state university hoping to retake a few classes and apply to Pharmacy school.
<B>Substance</B>
Recently, I have looked at a ton of Pharmacy schools, and have noticed that if I had wanted to do pharmacy directly out of high school then I 'easily' could have. Pre-reqs are:
- 3.0/4.0
- top 25% in class
- ACT of 21
Now my question is - Is there anyway at all that I could forfeit the grades I have received at college, and apply as a starting-over freshman in one of these programs (for instance, at Ohio Northern or Lecom).
Anyways, my performance in high school was:
- ~3.6/4.0 (actually a 4.1 out of 5.0 weighted)
- top 10% in class
- 26 on my ACT

What should I do?

Sincerely,
Never going to give up...

 

[abt04]

Hi, I'm a 'pre-pharmacy' student looking for a foot in the door at ANY pharmacy school. I feel that once I have my foot in the door I will be able to impress my superiors by my motivation and in-class performance.
However, my grades in college are not the best due to my career indecision up until 8 months ago. At first, I wanted to be a computer programmer, then a chemistry major (only), and finally, with my experience at CVS/pharmacy I have decided pharmacy is THE career choice for me.
My GPA in college are cumulative ~2.9, and a science GPA of ~2.5 - 2.6. These grades were achieved at a private institution (College of Wooster), and now I'm found at the local state university hoping to retake a few classes and apply to Pharmacy school.
<B>Substance</B>
Recently, I have looked at a ton of Pharmacy schools, and have noticed that if I had wanted to do pharmacy directly out of high school then I 'easily' could have. Pre-reqs are:
- 3.0/4.0
- top 25% in class
- ACT of 21
Now my question is - Is there anyway at all that I could forfeit the grades I have received at college, and apply as a starting-over freshman in one of these programs (for instance, at Ohio Northern or Lecom).
Anyways, my performance in high school was:
- ~3.6/4.0 (actually a 4.1 out of 5.0 weighted)
- top 10% in class
- 26 on my ACT

What should I do?

Sincerely,
Never going to give up...

you cant forfeit, those 6 y programs are aimed at highschool students. i know.. i inquired about it when i was a 2nd yr at college. sides it sounds like you have so many college credits that you still cant forfeit. but on the flip side, what you can do is just excel on your science classes starting now and volunteer or get pharmacy experience and do some extracurriculars.
but whatever you do, still acknowledge the credits you did earn from college. some ppl tried to hide them and it may or may not get them in trouble but why risk it right?
dont worry, just work hard on the classes you need and if u want, take some more science classes thats upper div.level and do well to show the pharm schools that you have the capability to handle pharm school as well as boost the science GPA. they will likely to see improvement over time. its pretty much what i did minus the upper div science classes (im attending a CC at the moment). and im still int he interviewing process right now.
good luck

 

[sle3pyguii]

i've never heard of ditching your grades. I believe they are stuck with you forever. Why don't you just retake the courses you did bad in? Some colleges take the better of the two grades when they look at your GPA.

 

[Farmercyst]

USN actually has an academic forgiveness policy where they will disregard grades 5+ years old. The kicker is that it means all grades; so if you've got prereq's older than 5 years you'd have to retake them. Of course if your chemistry classes were just this past year then it's probably not worth looking into. I've got classes 10 years old I'd gladly drop, but my GChem and OChem are also right at 5 years old. It doesnt help me, but maybe it can help someone else.