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Right now im at a 2.65 GPA. This semester im smashing all my classes straight A's and B's. By how much do you think my GPA will jump? Most applications are due Nov. 1st and grades are not determined until december, Will this effect Pharm Schools decisions? My PCat score is not as great, im currently at a 65% and i also have a retake set for the January test date planning to finish in the 75-80%.
 
you can calculate what your exact gpa if you take into consideration all the classes that are included in it and how many hours they all were.
 
Technically you're not a PharmD candidate until you enter pharmacy school 🙂
 
Right now im at a 2.65 GPA. This semester im smashing all my classes straight A's and B's. By how much do you think my GPA will jump?

This is contingent upon how many credit hours you have right now and what the exact ratio of your "straight As" to your "Straight Bs" is. But assuming you're in your 2nd or 3rd year, you can probably expect a term GPA of 3.5 - 4.0 to raise your cumulative to maybe 2.73 or 2.74... maybe. Bringing up GPA is nowhere near as fast as dropping it. Raising your GPA requires some serious ATP, whereas losing GPA is totally unfacilitated diffusion.

Most applications are due Nov. 1st and grades are not determined until december, Will this effect Pharm Schools decisions?

You'll list your IP classes but they won't be able to see your grades (But you should be able to update your application at a later date) and they probably won't start reviewing apps until after December grades post... but it'll be a bleak outcome either way with that far of a sub-3.0 GPA.

My PCat score is not as great, im currently at a 65% and i also have a retake set for the January test date planning to finish in the 75-80%

First of all, it's percentile, not percent. You will definitely need to score in the 80th+ percentile to offset your abysmal GPA and you should come correct with a lot of ECs. A vanilla applicant with a 2.7~ cum and 65th percentile PCAT hasn't got much of a chance, I don't suspect.

What's your science / math GPA, out of curiousity? Marginally better than your cum. at least?





Most applications are due Nov. 1st and grades are not determined until december, Will this effect Pharm Schools decisions? My PCat score is not as great, im currently at a 65% and i also have a retake set for the January test date planning to finish in the 75-80%.[/quote]
 
This is contingent upon how many credit hours you have right now and what the exact ratio of your "straight As" to your "Straight Bs" is. But assuming you're in your 2nd or 3rd year, you can probably expect a term GPA of 3.5 - 4.0 to raise your cumulative to maybe 2.73 or 2.74... maybe. Bringing up GPA is nowhere near as fast as dropping it. Raising your GPA requires some serious ATP, whereas losing GPA is totally unfacilitated diffusion.



You'll list your IP classes but they won't be able to see your grades (But you should be able to update your application at a later date) and they probably won't start reviewing apps until after December grades post... but it'll be a bleak outcome either way with that far of a sub-3.0 GPA.



First of all, it's percentile, not percent. You will definitely need to score in the 80th+ percentile to offset your abysmal GPA and you should come correct with a lot of ECs. A vanilla applicant with a 2.7~ cum and 65th percentile PCAT hasn't got much of a chance, I don't suspect.

What's your science / math GPA, out of curiousity? Marginally better than your cum. at least?





Most applications are due Nov. 1st and grades are not determined until december, Will this effect Pharm Schools decisions? My PCat score is not as great, im currently at a 65% and i also have a retake set for the January test date planning to finish in the 75-80%.
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That is funny
 
Technically you're not a PharmD candidate until you enter pharmacy school 🙂

Productive post, thanks.


As for the OP, one thing that adcoms look at is the trend in your GPA. If you continue your upward trend and improve your PCAT, you should have a chance.
 
Productive post, thanks.


As for the OP, one thing that adcoms look at is the trend in your GPA. If you continue your upward trend and improve your PCAT, you should have a chance.


Nothing wrong with her taking the time to correct the OP. I was a little surprised myself when I saw the title of this thread.

Doctor of pharmacy candidate status isn't something that should be thrown around, it's a status that needs to be earned. 😉 I just got my business cards as a gift from school during white coat ceremony that say: So and so, Doctor of Pharmacy candidate, class of 2013.
 
Right now im at a 2.65 GPA. This semester im smashing all my classes straight A's and B's. By how much do you think my GPA will jump? Most applications are due Nov. 1st and grades are not determined until december, Will this effect Pharm Schools decisions? My PCat score is not as great, im currently at a 65% and i also have a retake set for the January test date planning to finish in the 75-80%.

It sounds like you're in the hurt locker. There are numerous GPA calculators out in the wide world internets, so check one of those out to figure out EXACTLY what your final GPA will be at the end of the semester.

What are your EC's looking like?
 
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Wondered how long it'd take for you to weigh in on this given your stance on how "Pharm.D candidate" is bandied about.

Pretty soon kids in high school that decided they will major in pre-pharmacy will call themselves PharmD Candidates.

Here's the history

1) Everyone is just a pharmacy student. (beginning of the universe - 1998)

PharmD becomes the standard

2) People are called PharmD Candidates for the time in between their final rotation and their formal graduation. (2000-2003, maybe?)

3) Using PhD programs as an example, the "thesis" of school, clinical rotations, are when people are call "candidates" as they are done with formal learning and are working clinically. (This makes, by far, the most sense) (2003-2007-ish)

4) For some reason they started calling everyone in pharmacy school a PharmD Candidate at a few schools with obnoxiously pretentious faculty. This is ******ed. (2007-2009)

5) Anybody that wishes to hypothetically become a druggist at some point in their lives is now a PharmD Candidate. I mean, hell, why not. (2009-?)
 
4) For some reason they started calling everyone in pharmacy school a PharmD Candidate at a few schools with obnoxiously pretentious faculty. This is ******ed. (2007-2009)


For a number one in the galaxy, we are a quite humble school with extraordinarily humble faculty. 😳
 
For a number one in the galaxy, we are a quite humble school with extraordinarily humble faculty. 😳

For a what in the where is humble for the when, now?

Can I start calling you Natasha? I find the world much more absurd and entertaining when I can envision everyone as a ridiculous caricature.

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And since I'm rambling off a tangent for no real reason...why the hell does Fearless Leader look like an SS officer? I could never figure that out. Communists and Fascist well...uh...USUALLY didn't hang out together...but what do I know, I'm just a hilljack.

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Corrected.

Kids these days. 🙄

I'm almost all grown up! Regardless, that's all what we were told to circulate on our email tags and the like. We're also calling ourselves graduate students while we're at it.
 
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I'm almost all grown up! Regardless, that's all what we were told to circulate on our email tags and the like. We're also calling ourselves graduate students while we're at it.

Wow...a grad student, too? The people at your school are idiots.
 
Seems like it's all semantics to me (graduate vs. undergrad).

The PharmD's a strange program. You don't need a bachelors to get in, you don't get a bachelors when you get out.

And while yeah, someone who's not even enrolled in a PharmD program definitely shouldn't call themselves a PharmD Candidate, I don't see why it's a big deal if they're in a school. It's an empty and worthless title. I could put flesh bag on my business cards, but I don't. I think PharmD Cand. is the same thing.
 
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