Is this true?

[Biodude]

Hey everybody. I'm not a pre-pharm student but I usually like to swing by and see the posts. I know that a lot of my classmates are pre-pharm and I just wanted to help them out...

I heard that Western U's pharmacy school has an overall attrition rate of 40%...that number seems a wee bit high IMHO

Can anybody shed some light on this?

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[BMBiology]

I am not surprise the attrition rate at Western University is so high. I read that last year, Western School of Pharmacy loss a good number of its faculty. Western, however, has quickly hired new faculty members, but most of them are young and inexperience.

 

[BMBiology]

A Western DO student on another thread wrote:

"Actually, the pharmD school which started a few years ago does have some issues with their students having to prove themselves at their externships and at conferences. Since the school is still relatively new, they have to work hard to represent Western at conferences where other pharm schools will traditionally have a presence at already. Western's pharmD school has a high pass/pass/fail system.. with high pass probably being an A. Talking with a variety of first year pharm students, they do feel like there is something to prove.. even with local pharmacies and hospitals that are not used to Western U students working there in their externships that they do every week."

http://www.studentdoctor.net/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=27228&perpage=20&pagenumber=2

Also, this year Western's rate of passage on the California Pharmacy Board Exam was 60%, while the other 3 pharmacy schools had an 80% passage rate.

http://www.pharmacy.ca.gov/exam_stats_02_jun.htm