High School Student - Guaranteed Acceptance?

[lenkevy]

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I am a high school senior interested in attending a pharmacy school. Money is tight, so I plan to use this forum to research pharmacy schools. I am hoping to find a list of pharmacy schools that will provide "guaranteed acceptance", and allow me to take the prerequistes at a local community college or nearby college or university that I can commute to. Ideally, I'd like to find a 2+3 program or 2+4 program where the first 2 or 3 years can be done at the CC, nearby college or university.

By the way, I am active in my school, my GPA is over 4.0 and my SAT scores are respectable as well.

Can anyone recommend any specific schools that might fit my criteria, or have other thoughts to share?

Thanks!

 

[ADN1226]

What state are you in? And to my knowledge, I havent heard of a school that has a program with a CC to do a 2 + 4 program. They're mostly at the pharmacy university. This is if you want guaranteed acceptance into the pharmacy program. If not you can opt to take the prereqs at a CC and transfer in. But that is much harder. If you have the grades and stats to get into a pharmacy school now then do it. Choose a school that is cheaper - in state schools would be best.

 

[ajh88]

If you are really sure about pharmacy, I would look at 0-6 programs too. You do all 6 years at the school of pharmacy. Of course, that isn't the cheapest decision. You could also look at undergrad colleges that have schools of pharmacy - I believe Creighton offers a guaranteed INTERVIEW (not acceptance) to Creighton undergrads who maintain certain standards, and I would guess there are other schools like that as well.

I haven't come across any schools that guarantee acceptance, but I've only really researched the few schools that I'm applying to. Good luck!

 

[genesis09]

As said before, we need to know what state you are from. I know UIC has a guaranteed admissions program (GPPA), however, starting with this entry class, they have to get a bachelors before being allowed to matriculate. To be considered you need to be in the top 15% of your class and have an ACT over 28.
I believe Midwestern-ccp has some kind of program with Loyola and IIT, not quite sure though.

 

[kristakoch]

As said before, we need to know what state you are from. I know UIC has a guaranteed admissions program (GPPA), however, starting with this entry class, they have to get a bachelors before being allowed to matriculate. To be considered you need to be in the top 15% of your class and have an ACT over 28.
I believe Midwestern-ccp has some kind of program with Loyola and IIT, not quite sure though.

Again, Genesis, you are wrong about Midwestern. When are you going to learn to speak only what you know, which is UIC, and stop answering questions about a place you only hear rumors about. MWU does not have a program with IIT, why the hell would they with a technical college. They have a small program with Loyola Univeristy and Benedictine University.

Man I don't know how many more times people on this board need to slap you down with your false statements before you learn....

 

[imperial frog]

Where was the false statement?

 

[genesis09]

Again, Genesis, you are wrong about Midwestern. When are you going to learn to speak only what you know, which is UIC, and stop answering questions about a place you only hear rumors about. MWU does not have a program with IIT, why the hell would they with a technical college. They have a small program with Loyola Univeristy and Benedictine University.

IIT, the Illinois Insitute of Technology is not a technical school. It is a very good engineering school. You are confusing it with ITT. IIT is a fine school. It is where the PCATs are held in Chicago. Here's the link to their page. One time, I had to find something on the IIT website and ran into it. I knew someone in h.s. who applied to Loyola and was thinking about applying to that program.
I expect an apology.

 

[All4MyDaughter]

Where was the false statement?

That's what I was thinking too.

 

[genesis09]

That's what I was thinking too.

The person in question obviously did not recognize IIT, an engineering school, and thought it was ITT, a direct mail technical school. Those are two completely different schools. The students at IIT, the ones who I talked to, absolutely hate it when you confuse the two. They say it's a common mistake. The fact is Midwestern and IIT do have some kind of guaranteed admission program.

 

[All4MyDaughter]

The person in question obviously did not recognize IIT, an engineering school, and thought it was ITT, a direct mail technical school. Those are two completely different schools. The students at IIT, the ones who I talked to, absolutely hate it when you confuse the two. They say it's a common mistake. The fact is Midwestern and IIT do have some kind of guaranteed admission program.

Yes, I saw where you posted that.

I thought your post was fine.

 

[lenkevy]

I'm in CA. Considering University of the Pacific's 5 or 6 year program. But it is expensive.

 

[lenkevy]

I'm in CA. Considering University of the Pacific's 5 or 6-year program, but it is expensive.

 

[kristakoch]

IIT, the Illinois Insitute of Technology is not a technical school. It is a very good engineering school. You are confusing it with ITT. IIT is a fine school. It is where the PCATs are held in Chicago. Here's the link to their page. One time, I had to find something on the IIT website and ran into it. I knew someone in h.s. who applied to Loyola and was thinking about applying to that program.
I expect an apology.

I will apologize for misreading the IIT, it was an early morning and I had been on the PM shift at the hospital the night before. But anyways, there is no excuse. So I do apologize for that. But I will not apologize for other times I and others have called you out on false info.

FOr the others questioning what I thought was false, I read IIT as ITT (the online tech school) which then would make her or his statement false.

Sorry for it all

 

[evilolive]

You might want to consider getting a nice scholarship at a school and then applying to pharmacy school after getting your bachelors. Your undergraduate years are some of the best of your life and I wouldn't shorten them, even if money is a factor. It will also let you evaluate if pharmacy school really is for you - for I find people in high school (or at least in my case) didn't know exactly what they wanted. 80% of my entering class ended up changing their majors. If pharmacy doesn't work out, at least you have a backup contingency.