Easy School to get in... Program dunno

[AsianGuy26]

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I thought I just throw this out for those of you that may not care about what school you go to. ACP is opening up a new campus in VT... for the fall of 2009 I believe. From what I understand... there will be about 100-150 seats, about half of which will be filled by students who don't make the GPA cutoff @ main campus.

+ side of things... this is a sat campus and therefore accredited. They share rotation sites with ACP main... so at least you know you will have a variety to choose from. And when you graduate... you get an established name in pharmacy on your doctorate.

Anyway, since it is a new branch... it will be easier to get into than established sat. campuses. Apply early to get seats ya'll.

Now of to biochemistry... my one of my favoritess class.

 

[HmoobRX]

ACP? Is that Albany College of Pharmacy?

 

[Prepharm1214]

Shouldn't they be worrying about problems at their main campus like their high attrition rate before opening new programs?

 

[Transformer]

Shouldn't they be worrying about problems at their main campus like their high attrition rate before opening new programs?

Albany's supplemental application costs 100 dollars. I think they want more people to apply.

The ease of getting into a program depends on your grades. For Albany, your gonna need it. In my opinion, Albany, main campus, is just as competitive as your California Pharmacy schools. Not so sure about this new campus at Vermont. I really think the Albany main campus is getting way too crowded and they want to further increase their student population. So, the solution is to find another place to teach their students.

we'll see but I highly doubt Albany will lower its standards.

 

[WhiteSnows]

Huh ACP!!!

 

[phar2013]

Albany's supplemental application costs 100 dollars. I think they want more people to apply.

The ease of getting into a program depends on your grades. For Albany, your gonna need it. In my opinion, Albany, main campus, is just as competitive as your California Pharmacy schools. Not so sure about this new campus at Vermont. I really think the Albany main campus is getting way too crowded and they want to further increase their student population. So, the solution is to find another place to teach their students.

we'll see but I highly doubt Albany will lower its standards.

I agree!!

 

[cdpiano27]

From other posts in the past, it seems like Albany just takes everyone's 100 dollars. And then just looks at your GPA. If your GPA is lower than 3.9 (even if it is 3.8999999), you are rejected without any considerations!

Hence, if someone gets GPA 4.0 from community college in just the minimum prerequisites versus someone with 3.6 from MIT in chemical engineering. Then according to their method of just ordering by GPAs, the MIT student would be eliminated!!

And extracurricular, volunteering, PCAT, recommendations, they seem not to even care. Hence, I think there must be very few transfer spots and too many applications. So hence, having a computer ordering the GPAs in EXCEL, and then cutting 90% is probably the easiest way to go for them.

I may be wrong, but I have read the posts from the previous years about people frustrated after having paying $100 to get a rejecition e-mail only a few hours after paying them the money.

 

[Prepharm1214]

Well clearly gpa is not the only significant factor to consider with regards to admissions because even though they are 'only accepting 3.9+'s' they have a very high amount of students failing out of pharm school. Let alone, those who do survive may have awful interpersonal skills.

 

[Transformer]

Well clearly gpa is not the only significant factor to consider with regards to admissions because even though they are 'only accepting 3.9+'s' they have a very high amount of students failing out of pharm school. Let alone, those who do survive may have awful interpersonal skills.

I would assume most of the Albany pharmacy students who fail are their first and second year students. Keep in mind, Albany is still a 0-6 pharmacy school. They accept students straight from high school.

Even after getting accepted to Albany, many high school students don't always know a career in the pharmacy field is what they truly want and younger students tend to change their minds a lot. (I know I did). All it takes is a change of heart and a little slacking off to fail out of Albany's tough curriculum.

3.9+ GPA? wow that's really high. I highly doubt an interview invite for entrance to their 3rd year requires that high of a GPA. And if getting an excellent GPA is the primary goal / focus Albany aspires its students to achieve then I'm not really interested in applying there anyways. Grades are important, but not to a point where students are trying to step over one another to get the highest grades.

 

[korndog42]

no offense to the students at ACP now, but the school is a joke. If you are 18 and coming straight out of high school where your skills have not really been tested it is so easy to get in. Like mentioned before, coming out of college where you have been tested over and over it is next to impossible to get into ACP.

Even worse, of the 200 or so freshman that they take in every year, no more than half will make it to their P1 year. This is due to a lot of factors, not the least of which is the low quality of the faculty that works there.

There are constant rumblings of this school losing its accreditation status and for good reason. I am from the upstate NY area where most of the pharmacists are ACP alumni and even they say that the interns ACP is putting out get worse each year. A new satellite campus in VT? That is just scary. That place is a timebomb.