Experience with Notre Dame Pharmacy School?

[Pharmypharm]

If you know anyone who has attending or you have personally attended what are your thoughts about the school? Is it more difficult than other schools?

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[Amicable Angora]

If you know anyone who has attending or you have personally attended what are your thoughts about the school? Is it more difficult than other schools?

Warning, this school has no affiliation with the Norte Dame school in Indiana.

 

[PharmtoCS]

No idea

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I know one thing. They love it when you take out student loans and hand it to them.

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[bacillus1]

NDMU students at our hospital have been a mixed bag, some good ones and some REALLY bad ones...not LECOM bad though, those are the worst. I think it's a good enough school where you'll get a decent education, just be cognizant of the price tag.

 

[PharmDoReMe]

NDMU students at our hospital have been a mixed bag, some good ones and some REALLY bad ones...not LECOM bad though, those are the worst. I think it's a good enough school where you'll get a decent education, just be cognizant of the price tag.

Are lecom students really that stupid? I've never heard good things about LECOM

 

[Amicable Angora]

Haga, that's funny..

I've talked to quite a few people who thought the two schools were the same.

 

[Amicable Angora]

I didn't even think to look into it

I suspect that a great number of applicants (even current students) are unaware that they are two separate entities and have no connection. I mean after all, if you went around saying "I go to Notre Dame School of Pharmacy," it would not be too far of a stretch to think that Notre Dame (in Indiana) has a pharmacy school. You really wouldn't know unless you specifically went or are currently going to Notre Dame.

 

[baronzb]

any update on this school? Looks like they decreased matriculants from 58 to 51, but NAPLEX fell from 80 to 63 percent. How is that sustainable? Any budget or faculty cuts?

 

[projektreverb]

any update on this school? Looks like they decreased matriculants from 58 to 51, but NAPLEX fell from 80 to 63 percent. How is that sustainable? Any budget or faculty cuts?

I’ve noticed quite a few schools fit this pattern and had the same question.

 

[baronzb]

I’ve noticed quite a few schools fit this pattern and had the same question.

It appears that schools are lowering class size, to get a good naplex year, then raising class size to get more cash. wash and repeat, in order to stay out of the second deviation of naplex scores. Is this viable via the accrediation authorites?

 

[lord999]

It appears that schools are lowering class size, to get a good naplex year, then raising class size to get more cash. wash and repeat, in order to stay out of the second deviation of naplex scores. Is this viable via the accrediation authorites?

Yes, and schools in the past had done it, it's legal. Then again, that was during the era that <80% earned an automatic suspension of accreditation. This was Texas Southern and another other school. The problem is that it's not financially viable, so the university has to eat the school's losses somehow. A nursing school pays off better than this.

 

[baronzb]

Yes, and schools in the past had done it, it's legal. Then again, that was during the era that <80% earned an automatic suspension of accreditation. This was Texas Southern and another other school. The problem is that it's not financially viable, so the university has to eat the school's losses somehow. A nursing school pays off better than this.

agree, however, my old school only needed X students to be in the black, as pumped by the dean to prevent defections. Would a college allow zero income one year and reasonable income the second year, as an indefinite pattern? Would the accreditation people allow this? Is there a one-standard deviation rule for NAPLEX pass rates? That seems to be a concern for these schools.