Hi I have a really good GPA, PCATs and what not. My undergraduate was Biochemistry and I'm really academically spent; I would like to know which pharmacy schools are easier as far as rigor.... Please Post and explain your school (especially if your school is easier than undergraduate). Its also plus if their in a good location to live
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this thread shows that we have too many *****s entering the profession....
Honestly? Go to LPN school if you want less academic rigor...
Actually some LPN programs are pretty tough and rigorous too, what about not entering health care field at all?
I would not even bother if I were you. 👍 The fact that you even created this thread and were expecting positive comments leads me to believe you are stupid.
Dearest Bobby,
You couldn't have asked a worse question...and I honestly will probably check this thread multiple times throughout the week just to see how bad you get ripped on...
You couldn't have asked a worse question...and I honestly will probably check this thread multiple times throughout the week just to see how bad you get ripped on...
you know, the world needs a bunch of low average, low expectation people like yourself to make all the rest of us look good 🙂
You don't want easy. You want to learn. At least, if you want to be a good pharmacist, you want to learn. And that's going to involve hard, rigorous work.
Right, because you don't have to know anything in retail. Honestly, if that's the attitude you have, don't do pharmacy. And I'm not saying that to be a prick. This is not a field you can fake your way through and be a complete slacker in. Your comments seem to denote a skewed view of the retail field. If you don't know what you're getting yourself into, there's a good chance that once you do graduate and are working at your local Walgreens, that you'll hate it. And then what? 6+ years and 200K+ that you'll never have back.
Wow...
Any pharmacy school is going to be academically demanding; there's no way to avoid it. Whether you're going to UCSF or UNE, you're going to have to apply yourself and you're going to have to study hard.
HICP is the answer.
God forbid someone applies themselves and does well in life...
I almost forgot about that...that would be the perfect answer for ol bobby boy
I recommend the Tijuana College of Pharmacy
yes, yes. I have an above average penis size. Do I qualify for a scholarship?
Shenanigans aside, I read about some non-traditional 6 year programs. North Dakota had one but is no longer accepting applicants. There might be something similar out there. You can also check each school's curriculum. I have seen first year loads vary from 12-18 credits per semester. Definitely avoid 3 year programs and other accelerated programs.
Undergrad is the new high school, no one cares about it after you receive a doctorate/professional degree/masters. But if your undergrad makes you feel all warm and fuzzy, good for you, unfortunately you won't feel warm and fuzzy with the way the job market treats you and your "top 30 chemistry degree" laughable.
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Please refrain from name calling on the forums. Thanks 🙂
+1... heyy nana 😀
aww, i feel SO sorry for you 🙁
Retail is no joke. People ask you all kinds of crazy questions, and unless you study hard, then you're not going to be able to answer them in an efficient manner. You can't just sit back, count pills, and look up everything in your iPhone. You have to know things split-second, like does X drug cause X problem?, or else you'll be playing sink or swim every time you come into work and that's no way to work!
No one cares if you were on the top hitter on a championship AAA team, this is the big league son
Please tell me Bob Wells is not your real name. I have your name burned into my brain now as one of the biggest idiots that has ever posted on SDN. May all remember your name and black ball you fron the profession.
Did you really think you were going to get positive responses from such a *****ic post?
Good job on that degree. So where ya gonna get a job with that BS in chemistry and 3.9 GPA at a top 30 school? Oh nowhere, which is why, you are on here embarrassing yourself.
Maybe he likes relocating 300 miles away to make 30k a year doing titrations, different strokes...
"undergrad is the new high school"
Bob, my only question is why why did you bust your but with a 3.9 at a top 30 school in biochem to sell yourself short for a mediocre PharmD?
SUNY Buffalo is way easier than any undergrad biochem program. In your application essay, make sure you talk about how useless pharmacokinetics is. They'll love that.
Also, we have beautiful weather here year-round.
Also, we have beautiful weather here year-round.
Yeah OP is right, some girl was complaining about all of the work she's doing in college as an accounting major and I told her "if I wanted to major in something easy, I would have majored in pharmacy". But if you thought pharmacy was easy you should try being a heart surgeon, I hear that doing quadruple bypasses are as easy as farting after thanksgiving dinner.
Someone saying pharmacy is easy has to be one of the dumbest people I've ever met, if it was easy then EVERYONE would be majoring in it. You don't see college drunks telling people "yah I'm here just to party and I'm a pharmacy major, maaaan pharmaceutics? more like pharma-easy-ceutics...pass the makers mark". Well you might but you don't see them very often.
Someone saying pharmacy is easy has to be one of the dumbest people I've ever met, if it was easy then EVERYONE would be majoring in it. You don't see college drunks telling people "yah I'm here just to party and I'm a pharmacy major, maaaan pharmaceutics? more like pharma-easy-ceutics...pass the makers mark". Well you might but you don't see them very often.
Come on Mountain, pharmacy is easy! Please give me your job and your paycheck, it won't matter because pharmacy is easy!
UGH...unfortunately I have worked with a few of those "iPhone" pharmacists and I'll tell you....its no picnic for anybody....and it makes everyone in the pharmacy look bad 😱😱
i dont know .. i have found pharmacy school p1 year to be far easier than undergrad. dont let people turn you off with regard to pharmacy school. I think as long as you dont go to one of the top 5 schools or something, you wont get overwhelmed. The key to remember is you can only get as stressed as you let yourself. You're in control of your pharmacy school experience. Even at a school you might consider "hard", it's still what you make of it.
That's not entirely true. I know people at UOP that work themselves to death because everything is accelerated and crammed into 3 years. It's still a california school and while it's not a "top 10", the people who go there seem to be of decent caliber.
At UofM we all thought it was a joke because the p1 year was a lot of fun and drinking. I had 12 hours of free time a day, but man, P2 and P3 years are just awful in terms of work/difficulty. P4 year gets extremely challenging as well. We're also fixing the curriculum because everyone thought the P1 year didn't contain enough rigor and the 2nd and 3rd years were disproportionately stress inducing.
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I agree....P1 isn't much harder than undergrad...its MORE work but its managable...but then again its P1. P1 is suppose to be easy. Its P2 and P3 that counts!
I graduated with a 3.9+ GPA with a degree in Chemistry and I agree that degree is completely WORTHLESS! If I could go back in time I would pick Marketing or Business...at least its useful and you can actually go out and get a job that pays well with it! Chemistry, Biology, and all other science degree is WORTHLESS unless you go get a PhD or MD or PharmD or whatever.
wow.. everyone in my chem program went on to get good paying jobs (40-50k/year) I thought chemistry degrees were in relatively high demand compared to physics or biology. Granted i did go to a small school so i knew each of the 5 people who graduated the same time i left for pharm school
$40-50K a year isn't really "good-paying". Hell, even what retail pharmacists make at the chain's isn't that great.
Hell, if I thought I'd be making $40-50k a year when I was 16, I'da been stoked...
Not necessarily. My brother graduated with EE/CS degree from top 5 engineering program in the country and got an offer with 50-60k starting range. Combine with the stock option that he gets over the year and it's well over the six figures category. I graduated Chemical engineering from the same school myself and got a decent starting salary and I'm pretty that had I moved up the rank that my salary would be well in the 6 figures, but it just wasn't my calling. MD, PharmD, PhD...definitely not all that.
I just decided not to comment.
Of course you can get a job with a engineering degree. I am talking about science degrees like BS Biology, BS Physics, BS Chemistry, BS Sociology, BS Pyschology, BS Of any Science, etc. you will not be able to find a well paying job without doing a PhD or going to med or pharm school. Chances are you the only job you can find is high school teacher.
