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Next semester will be my last before I graduate. I came into this fall semester as a pre-med with the intentions of becoming a doctor. After much reason and self-debate, I came to the conclusion that medical school was not the right choice for me. With this in mind, I still knew I wanted to get into the health care field. I talked to some people and researched pharmacy and have decided I would like to attend pharmacy school. The only problem is, unlike medical schools, I have found that pharmacy schools do not have a common set of pre-requisites. This is severely hindering the amount of schools I will be able to apply to. For example, I have not taken public speaking, calculus 2, intro. to psychology, or a full year of human anatomy and physiology (I took a semester of animal physiology), since none of these were necessary for medical school. A bigger problem is that the physiology course I took was an upper level course (600 level), so I would get no credit for human anatomy and physiology (500 level) if I took it next semester. Does anyone know how lenient schools are about having EVERY pre-requisite to apply? By the looks of it I may have to go for another year of undergrad. if I want to go to pharmacy school, which would be terrible. Any advice would be appreciated.
 
Hey there,

Pharmacy schools are not lenient at all on pre-requisites. You either have them, or they're in progress during your pre-matriculation phase, or you're not in. You can apply and get accepted to schools while your coursework is IP, and some schools even let you take pre-requisites up until the summer prior to matriculation.

A good resource is pharmcas.org, go to School Listing, and sort by whichever you prefer. You can look through every school and exactly what PR's they require, and make a table for yourself. You'll find that there will be a lot of overlap and very few schools require completely weird things.



mdr8 said:
Next semester will be my last before I graduate. I came into this fall semester as a pre-med with the intentions of becoming a doctor. After much reason and self-debate, I came to the conclusion that medical school was not the right choice for me. With this in mind, I still knew I wanted to get into the health care field. I talked to some people and researched pharmacy and have decided I would like to attend pharmacy school. The only problem is, unlike medical schools, I have found that pharmacy schools do not have a common set of pre-requisites. This is severely hindering the amount of schools I will be able to apply to. For example, I have not taken public speaking, calculus 2, intro. to psychology, or a full year of human anatomy and physiology (I took a semester of animal physiology), since none of these were necessary for medical school. A bigger problem is that the physiology course I took was an upper level course (600 level), so I would get no credit for human anatomy and physiology (500 level) if I took it next semester. Does anyone know how lenient schools are about having EVERY pre-requisite to apply? By the looks of it I may have to go for another year of undergrad. if I want to go to pharmacy school, which would be terrible. Any advice would be appreciated.
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Hey thanks for the advice I'll look into that link.

What would you say are the most common prerequisites for pharmacy schools that differ from pre med (premed = full year chem, physic, organic, bio and english. semester biochem and a semester of calc.)

Thanks again.
 
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I suggest using the pharmcas link previously posted and make a list of all the schools whos pre-requisites you meet. Then you can choose to narrow it down by average gpa of accepted 1st year students, tuition, etc. Good luck.
 
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