High School Considered???

[hopefullyfall08]

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Hey, does anyone think pharmacy schools consider the things you did in high school...esp if you graduated with honors and the like (valedictorian, an International Baccalaureate Diploma)...especially if you have just started your sophomore year of college and so are kinda still fresh out of high school?

I think it shows that your work ethic goes way back and if you cared to succeed back then...you will care to continue succeeding now...

Thoughts please???

THANKS A LOT!!!

 

[eelo]

Hey, does anyone think pharmacy schools consider the things you did in high school...esp if you graduated with honors and the like (valedictorian, an International Baccalaureate Diploma)...especially if you have just started your sophomore year of college and so are kinda still fresh out of high school?

I think it shows that your work ethic goes way back and if you cared to succeed back then...you will care to continue succeeding now...

Thoughts please???

THANKS A LOT!!!

Sorry, no.

Someone wo had that much on the ball during high school should have a list of accomplishments for the first year (almost three semsters now!) of college. In fact, at this point, I think that going back to high school for accolades to list is a reach..... an obvious one, that will be a big, giant glaring neon sign screaming to adcoms "I haven't done much lately."

 

[andrewattheU]

actually I had an adcom that was impressed that I was valedictorian of my high school. I wouldn't put very many achievements from high school, but valedictorian shows a high level of success that is still noteworthy even in college

 

[hopefullyfall08]

hey eelo...

ohhh off course my friend...I have achievements thus far from college as well...I have been working retail since the day after I walked off the stage from graduation, volunteer in an inpatient hospital pharmacy where I also shadow a clinical pharmacist and have attended many events with her and done a newsletter for the hospital with more research projects and newsletters to come...

I am also in a cultural society at school, a breast cancer awareness group, have continued to volunteer with habitat for humanity...

In general...Overall:
1.) Work as pharmtech approximately 10 hrs/ week since june 2006
2.) Volunteer for hospital inpatient pharmacy
3.) Do aerobics...something I have stuck to since May 2004 and do ~1 hr/ day (3-4 days a week)
4.) involved in clubs
5.) volunteer for charity


do I still sound like I am screaming to the adcoms that I have not done much lately...

I just meant, and should have perhaps made it more clear, that citing high school would just show that I have been "GREAT" for a while and am not just trying to do "GREATNESS" now just to get into pharmacy school...

Thoughts...anyone 😀

 

[hopefullyfall08]

hey andrewattheU,

so did u get in...and what school?

 

[WVUPharm2007]

My senior year in high school, I had a 1.x GPA , got over 100 detentions for skipping over 100 classes, and generally did as little as humanly possible.....yet here I am....doing the pharmacy thing...this girl that was one of the valedictorians (really cute redhead...) who wanted to persue pharmacy out of high school....well...didn't cut it and is now a nurse.

 

[hopefullyfall08]

man...did u ever know why she did not cut it with pharmacy...perhaps she was so burnt out from high school and wanted to rebel...to her disadvantage off course...lol...I hope I am not another "valedictorian gone bad" or "valedictorian the world has turned against" with the attitude "so, you think you are something because u were valedictorian"...

honestly, I don't...but seeing as to how I have kept up with achieving high...why not sight my valedictorianship...God saying it like that makes me sound like I think I am the %*#&...ha Valedictorianship----

anyway, citing it to further show how achieving high is deeply rooted within me from a while back...

too late now...already submitted application and had interview and waiting for final decision in 2-3 weeks....omg the wait is gonna kill me!!!

Now I am hoping I did not screw up in bringing in high school to the adcom...

Thoughts????

 

[hopefullyfall08]

WVUPharm2007

and also...naturally...u did not cite high school to the adcom...but if u were in my boat...wouldn't u have cited high school?...Esp if the International Bacc diploma that I spoke of I had just fully recieved 6 months prior to submitting my app...

this sounds like such a desperate cry to just be told what I want to hear...but u gotta understand...waiting for the decision is killing me!!!

Ahhh...please bear with me...

 

[WVUPharm2007]

You can talk about high school, it won't hurt...but who knows how much it would help....

 

[andrewattheU]

hey andrewattheU,

so did u get in...and what school?

I havent heard back from the school yet my interview was last week. I'll let you know how it turns out

 

[dienophile]

Ah hell ... mention it if they ask or you feel the oportunity arises in the interview. You want to brag on yourself without being obnoxious, so if you are prompted, or you can work it into the interview/conversation, go for it. If you have to list accomplishments on a supplemental or something like that, lsit it. I would just try to avoid bring up the subject at an inapropo time.

And just so you know WVUParmacist.... the valedictorian for my class in high school was also a cute redhead, but she was also a slut.

 

[eelo]

hey eelo...

ohhh off course my friend...I have achievements thus far from college as well...I have been working retail since the day after I walked off the stage from graduation, volunteer in an inpatient hospital pharmacy where I also shadow a clinical pharmacist and have attended many events with her and done a newsletter for the hospital with more research projects and newsletters to come...

I am also in a cultural society at school, a breast cancer awareness group, have continued to volunteer with habitat for humanity...

In general...Overall:
1.) Work as pharmtech approximately 10 hrs/ week since june 2006
2.) Volunteer for hospital inpatient pharmacy
3.) Do aerobics...something I have stuck to since May 2004 and do ~1 hr/ day (3-4 days a week)
4.) involved in clubs
5.) volunteer for charity


do I still sound like I am screaming to the adcoms that I have not done much lately...

I just meant, and should have perhaps made it more clear, that citing high school would just show that I have been "GREAT" for a while and am not just trying to do "GREATNESS" now just to get into pharmacy school...

Thoughts...anyone 😀

If you really did all these things, who gives a crap what you did in high school? When I sat on adcoms, students applying from college needed to show me what they did in college, and not depend on their high school accolades. Remember, you only have SO much time, and SO much space.... use that time and space wisely.

 

[hopefullyfall08]

true...but on the app and in the interview...I included it all...

I literally sat with the faculty member and talked 25 minutes with a teeny breath her and there...I stopped and was like....man, I am sorry...did u have any questions (to the faculty member)...I don't remember u even asking me a question, I just started going on and on...tell me about yourself...

she said ppl like me make her job easier...she said they love seeing enthusiastic ppl like me...

and then told me a little about herself and what got her into teaching pharmacy

I don't know...looking back...I could have been a little much and in a bad way...oh we shall see...

 

[evilolive]

My school had like 5 valedictorians, try and figure that out! As long as you had all As, although they managed to make me feel very stupid 🙂

 

[hopefullyfall08]

Yeah, looking back, the main way I came off was a person who had done things here and there and fallen in love with clinical pharmacy and is now really involved with it and wanting to go to pharm school with hopes of becoming a clinical pharmacist...

the main focus of me...yes, was all I had done to fall in love with pharmacy...how that pharmacy school was perfect for me for that...

yep,yep, yep...

high school only showed the root of it all...

I can talk and talk....I just want to fast forward and get the decision!!!!!!!!

 

[ExpressMaiL]

If you apply to UCSF and did not attend a UC for undergraduate, they require high school transcripts. So for them, I would assume it does matter.

 

[evilolive]

Not really. It only determines UC eligibility.

 

[Lurkerkat]

It can't hurt, but odds are they won't consider your high school achievements unless it's something really unusual and unique.

Most universities only consider high school stuff when you're applying for the first time to their undergrad program as a freshman. I had the misfortune of tanking my GPA when I was a freshman and dropped out. When I started reapplying as a transfer student none of the universities wanted or would consider my high school transcript or achievements. Ended up attending a school for a semester that accepts anybody with a high school diploma to pull my GPA up so I could get into a better program.

If undergrad programs won't consider anything related to high school for a transfer student, a graduate program will probably be even more so uninterested.