hello everyone i was just wondering if there are pp out there who apply to pharmacy schools with a 3.0 and got accepted? and what if your school's grading system is A,B,C,D rather than +/- ?? how does the pharmacy schools look at it? because i felt that it is realli unfair if i have a 88 in the class and they give me a B since my school doesnt offer +/- 🙁
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People do get accepted to pharm school with a 3.0 but you need to be competitive in other areas also (as do all applicants). Pharmacy schools recalculate everyone's GPA using the same system so that they can compare GPAs. They use the A,B,C,D scale. I'm glad my school doesn't use the +/- because I would be pissed if I got an A- and couldn't get a 4.0. Getting an A+ is freaking hard!
I think the +/- system balances out to be the same as the non +/- system. Yeah, it's good to have the plus option, but the minus can hurt you a lot. An A- is a 3.66, which really sucks since scoring above a 94 is practically impossible! An 84 is a B- and thats only a 2.66. I got a few of those and it killed my gpa.
I got a lot of B+ (like 89) and that really pissed me off so i joined the quarter system. hopefully that will go well.
Basically what this means is if you get an 88 average you would have a B+ written all over your transcript, and that is not very good. Whereas, if you went to a school like Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Man, that school was freaking cold! But Chicago is overall good.
+/- can indeed go both ways. On the plus minus system I balanced out though, 2+ (C+ and B+)and 2- (A-, and B-). On the A/B no +/- system I'd have had 2 B+, but more A-(at least 3 come to mind). In the end, you just learn do play with the cards your dealt. It sucks, but there's not a lot you can do to change the grades you have, and you may find by changing schools you end up with a trend opposite that which you hoped for.
