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Okay there's no secret how I've been interested in pharmacy. I need to know one thing...my community college offers liberal arts and science majors. These include concentrations in biology "or" chemistry. Which is best to take to help me prep for pharmacy school? I looked threads up like mine but it didn't really answer my questions. Thanks!

Stephy:luck:
 
Okay there's no secret how I've been interested in pharmacy. I need to know one thing...my community college offers liberal arts and science majors. These include concentrations in biology "or" chemistry. Which is best to take to help me prep for pharmacy school? I looked threads up like mine but it didn't really answer my questions. Thanks!

Stephy:luck:

Chemistry will prep you better academically as it's a more challenging degree and will help you develop more mathy/analytical skills, but biology degree will satisfy more pre-reqs.
 
Biochemistry was esentially a chemistry degree at my former school + 1 measley required semester of intro bio.

I know, I was just being silly.

She's debating between Biology and Chemistry, and I thought what the hell, do BOTH! Combined!

Like, you know when you wake up and you don't know if you want breakfast or lunch? You have brunch!

Same concept. I'm in a silly mood, I think it's the flu.
 
I know, I was just being silly.

She's debating between Biology and Chemistry, and I thought what the hell, do BOTH! Combined!

Like, you know when you wake up and you don't know if you want breakfast or lunch? You have brunch!

Same concept. I'm in a silly mood, I think it's the flu.

You know what I'm excited about this year ?

We are going to be doing immunizations right around when my Bday rolls around.

In fact we have to memorize an entire book on vaccinations before even the start of school. If you join the family, all this fun lies ahead for you. 😉 :laugh:
 
I hope you feel better, so how do I do both when they're both majors?

Just major in biology, it will satisfy more pre-reqs and you will be able to apply to more schools.
 
Yes, I should've said that, LovinPsych - Just major in Biology, LOL. Never mind my silly head right now. Too much DXM I think.

@ Cheb - I would LOVE to do vaccinations, as crappy as it sounds. I leapt at the chance to organize the non-controlled medication in the out patient pharmacy and check for exp. dates and such... I'm a glutton for punishment. Must be the green still in my veins. I remember when we got them before Christmas leave rolled around in the Army... Always a fun experience. I much prefer the injection to the mist - Which one is UCSF going with (I have not kept up with it, I must admit).
 
I hope you feel better, so how do I do both when they're both majors?

So if you're graduating in 2013 w/ a BA in psych then you're basically a Freshman this year. Why don't you change your major to Biology in your Sophomore year and forget doing it via CC and get a 4 year BS and be ahead of the game...?

Wow I type like crap on this stuff.
 
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Yes, I should've said that, LovinPsych - Just major in Biology, LOL. Never mind my silly head right now. Too much DXM I think.

@ Cheb - I would LOVE to do vaccinations, as crappy as it sounds. I leapt at the chance to organize the non-controlled medication in the out patient pharmacy and check for exp. dates and such... I'm a glutton for punishment. Must be the green still in my veins. I remember when we got them before Christmas leave rolled around in the Army... Always a fun experience. I much prefer the injection to the mist - Which one is UCSF going with (I have not kept up with it, I must admit).


I am not sure to be honest, but I've read the blog of P3 and it seems it would be injections. Here's the blog if you are interested:

http://ucsfpharmacyexperience.blogs...-max=2008-01-01T00:00:00-08:00&max-results=13
 
I hope you feel better, so how do I do both when they're both majors?

Double major! (You'll recognize other members of this elite club. They're typically pale, dark around the eyes...)

Actually, since you're just knocking out the pre-reqs at your CC, you might be in the same boat as me.

I went Bio, but their catalog lists pre-Pharm as a Chem program. But the classes overlap so much, I'm getting an AS in Bio AND an AS in Chem.
 
Suck it up soldyah! :laugh:

Did someone from the pharmacy get you sick? I swear to God, it's the most ironic thing about working in this field.

In 4 years of service I only missed two days of work. I went on mission after mission with gastroenteritis in Baquba. How's that for hard core? I don't even want to tell you where I put the diarrhea when we were outside the wire or what I used for TP.

But, now that I'm a civilian, I am enjoying my slightly softer schedule and life. I don't wake myself up at 0445 anymore, so god dammit, I'm taking an anti-tussive and bismuth subsalicylate =]

I'm not sure where I picked it up. The pharmacy at the hospital, given the nature of the hospital, has a STRICT zero tolerance policy for going to work sick or under suspicion of being sick for volunteers. If you come in and you cough all over something your ass is in a sling.

At the indy, I've worked sick, and my supe never cares.

Judging by the time on set and symptom presentation I'm guessing I nabbed it on the first day of German class.
 
So if you're graduating in 2013 w/ a BA in psych then you're basically a Freshman this year. Why don't you change your major to Biology in your Sophomore year and forget doing it via CC and get a 4 year BS and be ahead of the game...?

Wow I type like crap on this stuff.

Wow lol you're silly today, well all of you are making some great points and advice. The school I am with doesn't offer chem nor bio as a major, I was told I could attend another college ( CC) while obtaining my psych degree.I want my options open but I have been on the fence with which to take.

@pr33t- are you telling me you are taking two majors at one college? Holycrap do you have any time for anything else? That's even possible to do? It's doable but has to be hard right? I assume the description of those who take double majors is true to scene....😱
 
Wow lol you're silly today, well all of you are making some great points and advice. The school I am with doesn't offer chem nor bio as a major, I was told I could attend another college ( CC) while obtaining my psych degree.I want my options open but I have been on the fence with which to take.

@pr33t- are you telling me you are taking two majors at one college? Holycrap do you have any time for anything else? That's even possible to do? It's doable but has to be hard right? I assume the description of those who take double majors is true to scene....😱

My wife double-majors(ed in a couple weeks) - English and Philosophy. It's possible! In fact, the overlap makes it almost convenient sometimes. Two pieces of paper for the price one uno!

Sure you could attend a CC while doing your UG at Argosy but... WHY!? Why not ditch that school and go right to a 4 year for science!? You're going to be setting yourself up for failure later when the AdComs see you have a UG psych degree completed at a 4 year school while concurrently completing your *important* science pre-requisites at a CC. This will NOT look good. So like I told you 2 1/2 months ago Stephy... Go get some exp. in a pharmacy and THEN decide. Then if you like pharmacy go balls deep and tell Argosy to suck your XX chromosomes.
 
@pr33t- are you telling me you are taking two majors at one college? Holycrap do you have any time for anything else? That's even possible to do? It's doable but has to be hard right? I assume the description of those who take double majors is true to scene....😱

I'm going to bed, I swear!

Like I said, the majors overlap. Without looking at the two degree plans, I can't tell you what the differences are. I think the Chem AS required some more math (but since I'm an engineering major for my BS, I have Cal I&II already, and I'm taking stats now).

Basically, they're two tracks that have a lot of the SAME courses. I don't think you need O-Chem for an AS in Bio, but you do need it to get into pharmacy school. And it's part of a Chem AS. Get my drift?

They're identical degree plans, with some little tweaks here and there. This is possible since it's only a 2 year degree.
 
Wow lol you're silly today, well all of you are making some great points and advice. The school I am with doesn't offer chem nor bio as a major, I was told I could attend another college ( CC) while obtaining my psych degree.I want my options open but I have been on the fence with which to take.

@pr33t- are you telling me you are taking two majors at one college? Holycrap do you have any time for anything else? That's even possible to do? It's doable but has to be hard right? I assume the description of those who take double majors is true to scene....😱


I double majored - both BS:

1st in biochemistry, 2nd in physiology. You have time to do other things: research projects, volunteer, clubs if you realize you will not graduate in 4 years, not even in 5.
 
My wife double-majors(ed in a couple weeks) - English and Philosophy. It's possible! In fact, the overlap makes it almost convenient sometimes. Two pieces of paper for the price one uno!

Sure you could attend a CC while doing your UG at Argosy but... WHY!? Why not ditch that school and go right to a 4 year for science!? You're going to be setting yourself up for failure later when the AdComs see you have a UG psych degree completed at a 4 year school while concurrently completing your *important* science pre-requisites at a CC. This will NOT look good. So like I told you 2 1/2 months ago Stephy... Go get some exp. in a pharmacy and THEN decide. Then if you like pharmacy go balls deep and tell Argosy to suck your XX chromosomes.

lol I have a loan already activated with this school. I just can't dump it and go plus I do still love psych. I know you told me that lol. I am trying to figure out who is AdComs and why is gonna look bad?
 
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I'm going to bed, I swear!

Like I said, the majors overlap. Without looking at the two degree plans, I can't tell you what the differences are. I think the Chem AS required some more math (but since I'm an engineering major for my BS, I have Cal I&II already, and I'm taking stats now).

Basically, they're two tracks that have a lot of the SAME courses. I don't think you need O-Chem for an AS in Bio, but you do need it to get into pharmacy school. And it's part of a Chem AS. Get my drift?

They're identical degree plans, with some little tweaks here and there. This is possible since it's only a 2 year degree.

lol I said that like 2 hrs ago yet I am still up,lol! Yea you're right. It's probably that way and it's definitely only 2 years. Like i said I haven't started anything it's purely consideration at this time. I always felt like the two were almost the same....😴
 
lol I have a loan already activated with this school. I just can't dump it and go plus I do still love psych. I know you told me that lol. I am trying to figure out who is AdComs and why is gonna look bad?

An Admissions Committee is the people who look over each app.

Think about it Stephy.

CCs have a dubious reputation for being "easy", and at least easier than a 4 year school. Thus, if you're applying to pharmacy schools and you've got ALL of your science from a CC but your undergraduate, at the same time, is being done at a 4 year (in a social science...) you'll look like you're "dodging" the hard classes. It just looks bad... It's a negative stigma, and you don't want that attached to your name.
 
That brings me to a question...

It seems to me like a lot of schools don't really give a preference to students who have gone the extra 2 years to complete at bachelor's degee over the students who did the AS or AA degree at a CC. I've read about a few schools who actually state that they do give preference, but most don't.

Do you think that 4 year students are more prepared to enter pharmacy school? I know it's a silly question, but if it does makes a difference, then why isn't a 4 year degree required like it is for medical school? Do you think there is a level playing ground when some applicants are applying with 2 years of grades from a community college and others are applying with 4 years from a university?

I was just wondering what others experience was with this, because I'm not yet in pharmacy school so I'm not really sure. Plus, I never really thought about it much until recently when I began to apply because my undergrad. didn't have a lot of pre-pharmacy students. Most of my classmates where doing the pre-med thing since UM only has a medical school, but no COP.
 
Without hard numbers, I think it's hard to quantify how often having the BS or BA actually helps.

Just my opinion: It wasn't all that long ago that Pharmacy was a Bachelors program. The PharmD was an evolution of that, but eventually became the required degree. You didn't need a bachelors to get into a bachelors program, but as time goes on and the PharmD becomes the only thing people remember/know, maybe we'll start seeing more schools requiring a BS or BA.
 
An Admissions Committee is the people who look over each app.

Think about it Stephy.

CCs have a dubious reputation for being "easy", and at least easier than a 4 year school. Thus, if you're applying to pharmacy schools and you've got ALL of your science from a CC but your undergraduate, at the same time, is being done at a 4 year (in a social science...) you'll look like you're "dodging" the hard classes. It just looks bad... It's a negative stigma, and you don't want that attached to your name.

Seriously? CC are considered "easy"? That seems rather insulting? I mean it's not your fault but if you're telling me that AdComs do this, I honestly feel it's unfair. If anything it shows ambition that the person was trying to get their ducks in a row while they were an undergrad. I had no idea it was needed to do a BA to get in a Pharm school to look better? Over starting off in a BA in something else ( 4 yr) ( my case psych) but attending another school ( CC) (2yr) during that time period. By the way are you telling me even if they saw me do dual classes at the CC like many has suggested they'd still see that as easy??!!😡 Chem/bio dual classes are not easy...please someone correct me if I am wrong!
 
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Seriously? CC are considered "easy"? That seems rather insulting? I mean it's not your fault but if you're telling me that AdComs do this, I honestly feel it's unfair. If anything it shows ambition that the person was trying to get their ducks in a row while they were an undergrad. I had no idea it was needed to do a BA to get in a Pharm school to look better? Over starting off in a BA in something else ( 4 yr) ( my case psych) but attending another school ( CC) (2yr) during that time period. By the way are you telling me even if they saw me do dual classes at the CC like many has suggested they'd still see that as easy??!!😡 Chem/bio dual classes are not easy...please someone correct me if I am wrong!

Nope, that's how it looks - like you're dodging the hard classes. And from my experience, it's true. The classes I took at CC were significantly easier than any class I ever took at a 4 year university.
 
So basically I am wasting my time? So you guys are positive this will never work for me? 🙁
 
So basically I am wasting my time? So you guys are positive this will never work for me? 🙁

No, that's not true either. A 4 year university applicant does look better than a CC applicant, but there are plenty of people who get in every year without a degree. It just looks better to take it at a 4 year...but if you get A's and B's in CC, no one is going to disregard it just because of that (unless they require a bachelor's like some schools, of course!). Don't worry TOO much about it - just make sure you supplement your app with lots of ECs and experience too.
 
No, that's not true either. A 4 year university applicant does look better than a CC applicant, but there are plenty of people who get in every year without a degree. It just looks better to take it at a 4 year...but if you get A's and B's in CC, no one is going to disregard it just because of that (unless they require a bachelor's like some schools, of course!). Don't worry TOO much about it - just make sure you supplement your app with lots of ECs and experience too.

ECs? What are these? I hate to sound "dumb" but I am unaware of some terms here and I just want to be clear that i understand fully. By experience do you mean shadowing or interning?
 
I kind of have mixed emotions on this because during my first two years of undergrad (when you can still transfer credit from other colleges) all of the pre-med advisors and professors in the sciences told us that if we wanted to get into medical school (or any professional school) that it was important for us to take our core sciences with a university. So basially it was okay to take English Comp II at a CC over the summer, but not a biology or chemistry. Then of course some people would say that our school just wanted our 4,000 dollars per class... but I don't really think this was the case because they didn't seem to have a problem with us taking our sciences down the road at FIU (the main state school in Miami).

Then again, I personally know people who knew straight out of high school that they wanted to go to pharmacy school and didn't care one bit about a bachelor's degree, so they went straight to a CC and worked as a tech for two years. Most of them had no problem getting accepted. I'm sure it has something to do with what you said pr33st... about the bachelor's degree... I don't think that there is anything wrong with CC courses as long as they prepare you well enough to succeed later on, but I do have to agree that for some reason it is much easier to get an A in those classes than at a university. I'm actually taking a few of the remaining prereqs for some schools at Miami Dade College, which used to be the #1 CC in the country, until it was granted the authority to confer bachelor's degrees. I still think that the courses are a bit easier however. I don't think it's because the education is less, but I do think that the professors take more time to go slowly and give you individual assistance, rather than at a major university where the classes are 200 students + and they kind of expect you to learn more on your own. I also think the exams are a little different, and the curves lend themselves to a higher grade overall.
 
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I don't have a lot of time right now to post but I just wanted to point out that it's customary at CC to inflate grades. Example: a 90.1% is an A, not an A-. That means if MOST of your grades are A-s at uni, you'll be somewhere in the 3.7 range. However, at a CC, you'd be @ 4.0. That causes inflation over time in one's transcript.

Another convention that causes CC to be "bad" sometimes is that they admit anyone and everyone, and as such, the classes tend to cater to the lowest common denominator. Generally a CC is regarded as a stepping stone to a University, so why would anyone see them as equals?

LovinPsych - You aren't necessarily wasting your time. No one can tell the future, I say that a lot. It's possible it'll never, ever matter that you concurrently took your core science @ a CC while completing your UG Psych degree. But, if you're "on the cusp" during admissions, it'll be your big Achilles heel. It is something you will be accountable for, for sure.

OK gotta go!
 
ECs? What are these? I hate to sound "dumb" but I am unaware of some terms here and I just want to be clear that i understand fully. By experience do you mean shadowing or interning?

ECs are slang for extracurricular activities. Adcoms like to see students that are highly involved, including volunteering, student organizations, etc. As for experience, either working as a pharmacy technician, volunteering in a pharmacy or shadowing in a pharmacy all help your application, with the more hours you put in the better (although 10 hours, for example, is astronomically better than none). 🙂
 
I don't have a lot of time right now to post but I just wanted to point out that it's customary at CC to inflate grades. Example: a 90.1% is an A, not an A-. That means if MOST of your grades are A-s at uni, you'll be somewhere in the 3.7 range. However, at a CC, you'd be @ 4.0. That causes inflation over time in one's transcript.

Another convention that causes CC to be "bad" sometimes is that they admit anyone and everyone, and as such, the classes tend to cater to the lowest common denominator. Generally a CC is regarded as a stepping stone to a University, so why would anyone see them as equals?

LovinPsych - You aren't necessarily wasting your time. No one can tell the future, I say that a lot. It's possible it'll never, ever matter that you concurrently took your core science @ a CC while completing your UG Psych degree. But, if you're "on the cusp" during admissions, it'll be your big Achilles heel. It is something you will be accountable for, for sure.

OK gotta go!

For some schools taking prereqs at a CC will be a disadvantage while at other schools it will not be. I asked an Adcom member at one of the pharm schools about 4-year vs. CC. She told me that they conducted a study 5 or 6 years ago comparing the academic achievement of pharm students that came from 4-year schools vs. CC. They found no statistical difference between the two. She said that as a result of the study, they no longer take into account whether an applicant went to a university or CC. Other schools however may still make a distinction between the two.

Keep in mind that most phamacists practicing today entered the profession with a B.S. in Pharmacy and many of them spent some time in CC before transfering to pharmacy school. I think that you will find that there are some Adcom members that also did prereqs in CC and will not consider CC a negative.
 
Sweet mother of degrees you guys got so many ideas and experiences I am spinning here,lol. I thank you all for the advice thus far , it has me thinking on all aspects. Even with Passion4Sci's wit is making me crack up while what he says is true! I'm happy to see that there are good and bad points to this . I love knowing the facts and weighing potential options. So while this topic continues I must say I would love further comments on the chem vs bio vs take both thing as well, cause I mean that's alot of work lol. Not saying I couldn't do it though...I just had no idea CC let you double up on majors! I am a workaholic and I don't plan to have babies anytime soon * cuts out uterus during this time*. So working my butt off around the clock is an option!
 
Don't need to cut out your uterus, just need to take BC as directed.

CCs will let you take as many classes as you like, and will let you file for as many Associate's degrees as you have credits for... So if you're Bio/Chem, you just take all of the classes that are required, then when it comes time to file for your Associate's (which might actually come after you've already been admitted to pharm. school) you just petition for both of the degrees. No problem.

The work-load will be pretty crazy esp. if your psychology undergrad is also time consuming. Thinking about the Carnegie Rule, for every 1 hour in class, you're expected to spend 3 hours outside of class studying, doing homework, and the like. So for your typical 5 unit science class, you're expected to spend 15 hrs. outside of class working on it. 15 units, 45 hours. If you're doing 15 at both your 4 yr and CC, that's 90 hours expected of you. Whether it'll take you that much to get proficient in both, to do lab write-ups, to practice, etc, etc... only you know. But that's the "rule".

Consider leaving Argosy and sucking up the loan money as a loss and full-time pursuing Pharmacy, since doing both concurrently (if you're taking full loads in both) is probably going to be impossible.
 
Don't need to cut out your uterus, just need to take BC as directed.

CCs will let you take as many classes as you like, and will let you file for as many Associate's degrees as you have credits for... So if you're Bio/Chem, you just take all of the classes that are required, then when it comes time to file for your Associate's (which might actually come after you've already been admitted to pharm. school) you just petition for both of the degrees. No problem.

The work-load will be pretty crazy esp. if your psychology undergrad is also time consuming. Thinking about the Carnegie Rule, for every 1 hour in class, you're expected to spend 3 hours outside of class studying, doing homework, and the like. So for your typical 5 unit science class, you're expected to spend 15 hrs. outside of class working on it. 15 units, 45 hours. If you're doing 15 at both your 4 yr and CC, that's 90 hours expected of you. Whether it'll take you that much to get proficient in both, to do lab write-ups, to practice, etc, etc... only you know. But that's the "rule".

Consider leaving Argosy and sucking up the loan money as a loss and full-time pursuing Pharmacy, since doing both concurrently (if you're taking full loads in both) is probably going to be impossible.

I was wondering about that three hour rule for each hour of class. With the exception of some lab classes, I never even came close to spending three hours studying per hour of class. Do people really spend that much time per hour of class?
 
I was wondering about that three hour rule for each hour of class. With the exception of some lab classes, I never even came close to spending three hours studying per hour of class. Do people really spend that much time per hour of class?


Whether they do or they don't is immaterial - That's what is expected of the student and that's how the course is designed. The reason I bring it up is that OP is intending to take a full-time Psychology courseload at a 4 year school and concurrently do full-time pre-pharmacy at a CC. She will be spread so thin I can't imagine how even the most amazing, dedicated, and steadfast of students could manage decent grades.
 
Sweet mother of degrees you guys got so many ideas and experiences I am spinning here,lol. I thank you all for the advice thus far , it has me thinking on all aspects. Even with Passion4Sci's wit is making me crack up while what he says is true! I'm happy to see that there are good and bad points to this . I love knowing the facts and weighing potential options. So while this topic continues I must say I would love further comments on the chem vs bio vs take both thing as well, cause I mean that's alot of work lol. Not saying I couldn't do it though...I just had no idea CC let you double up on majors! I am a workaholic and I don't plan to have babies anytime soon * cuts out uterus during this time*. So working my butt off around the clock is an option!


Well additional piece of advice, if you decide to double major and pursue BS degrees like I have:

with a chem/biochem degree you will already cover and take a lot of classes as an undergrad that you will be taking during your first year of pharm school such as:

- most likely a year of biochem
- a year of pchem + pchem lab depending on school
- toxicology
- advanced or masters organic chemistry that chem majors often take as elective, besides the year of regular one
- probably higher level maths than biology degrees such as calc 3 that will leave you better prepared for pchem and etc.

Overall a chem degree is better at preparing you to think analytically.

Biology degree on the other hand is handy because it will cover more pre-reqs and will let you apply to more schools. If you apply to schools on both coasts like I have, you will most likely need a lot of bio classes

- the usual physio + lab
- the usual anatomy + lab
- immunology as required by U of M
- cell biology
-molecular biology
- genetics

Most chem/biochem degrees don't cover those classes (biochem degrees usually list them as electives, but chem degrees certainly require little to none biology), so majoring in biology willl let you apply to a wider selection of schools.
 
Cheb - Stephy is at Argosy U. for Psychology Undergrad, and is considering taking the science classes at a CC, not for a Bachelor's.


Oh, I missed that, thanks. 👍

I'm always trying to persuade people to change majors.

When I was an advisor at my school last summer, quite a few young enthusiasts suddently desired to become cool chem majors. :laugh:
 
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LovinPsych: I have to wonder why you're pursuing a psychology major in the first place. If you really want to be a pharmacist, you may just want to change your major to something more related (chem/bio/biomedical sciences). It is really a waste of time to get a bachelor's in psych when you will never go on to practice it, and pharmacy isn't really a career in which I see that as being helpful enough to go through all the work of doing that full time AND taking prepharm requirements.
 
LovinPsych: I have to wonder why you're pursuing a psychology major in the first place. If you really want to be a pharmacist, you may just want to change your major to something more related (chem/bio/biomedical sciences). It is really a waste of time to get a bachelor's in psych when you will never go on to practice it, and pharmacy isn't really a career in which I see that as being helpful enough to go through all the work of doing that full time AND taking prepharm requirements.


This was my point. Stephy said, though, that she can't withdraw from Argosy because of the loans or something, and they don't offer a Bio Sci degree. And I don't think she's totally set on pharmacy, either.

I agree about not getting psychology degrees without the intent to pursue, at the least, a Master's level clinical degree + license like the MFT. I was fortunate in that my latter degree was in Biopsych, so I had to take a great deal of science classes, which ended up playing nicely in my favor when I fell in love with pharmacology and got on the road to pharmacy. But a pure Psych degree offers nothing of use beside the GE requirement classes.
 
Oh, I missed that, thanks. 👍

I'm always trying to persuade people to change majors.

When I was an advisor at my school last summer, quite a few young enthusiasts suddently desired to become cool chem majors. :laugh:

Oh believe me I understand.

I already mentioned that earlier in the thread - She can't change majors, though, b/c her school doesn't offer a Bio Sci 4 year degree (Hard to imagine but whatever).
 
Whether they do or they don't is immaterial - That's what is expected of the student and that's how the course is designed. The reason I bring it up is that OP is intending to take a full-time Psychology courseload at a 4 year school and concurrently do full-time pre-pharmacy at a CC. She will be spread so thin I can't imagine how even the most amazing, dedicated, and steadfast of students could manage decent grades.

I'm currently part-time at Argosy. 😛
 
I'm very confused, why must some of you doubt what I want? I mean there's no surprise how bad I want both and I can't help but wonder how to go about doing. I've seen people do things most would say hey you're crazy for etc etc. I don't want to just stop at a BA in psych "but" I have said before I like pharm too and no psychiatry is not for me, to me that particular career has so many issues with it, I could never stop listing them. No offense to those who may like it...😉

Maybe I should list what I want in life with both careers and it'll help some of you understand better? Would that help? I don't want any misconceptions here but for the record, I am part-time at Argosy.😎

Because I love the school and what I am studying. Why so? Why would it make you uncomfortable?
 
I'm very confused, why must some of you doubt what I want? I mean there's no surprise how bad I want both and I can't help but wonder how to go about doing. I've seen people do things most would say hey you're crazy for etc etc. I don't want to just stop at a BA in psych "but" I have said before I like pharm too and no psychiatry is not for me, to me that particular career has so many issues with it, I could never stop listing them. No offense to those who may like it...😉

Maybe I should list what I want in life with both careers and it'll help some of you understand better? Would that help? I don't want any misconceptions here but for the record, I am part-time at Argosy.😎

Because I love the school and what I am studying. Why so? Why would it make you uncomfortable?

Whoa whoa whoa. Back up. We're saying what we're saying because there is NO reason to get a bachelor's in psychology if you are 100% set on pharmacy. It's a waste of time and money. You will never use your degree. If you love it and want to do it just for fun, that's your prerogative - we just don't see why you're wasting your time, money and effort if you are really set on pharmacy.
 
LovinPsych: I have to wonder why you're pursuing a psychology major in the first place. If you really want to be a pharmacist, you may just want to change your major to something more related (chem/bio/biomedical sciences). It is really a waste of time to get a bachelor's in psych when you will never go on to practice it, and pharmacy isn't really a career in which I see that as being helpful enough to go through all the work of doing that full time AND taking prepharm requirements.

I recently found out about Psychiatric Pharmacy and I'm interviewing a psych pharm next week. It seems to be a more hands-on branch of pharmacy, and a psychology degree might help you gain a place in a residency for that field.

(see http://www.cpnp.org for more info)
 
I recently found out about Psychiatric Pharmacy and I'm interviewing a psych pharm next week. It seems to be a more hands-on branch of pharmacy, and a psychology degree might help you gain a place in a residency for that field.

(see http://www.cpnp.org for more info)

I hope so. Then I can put my undergraduate degrees to use. Weeee.

Looked at the site- Lots of interesting PGY1 and PGY2 residencies, also.

The problem for Stephy is that she's pursuing both subjects concurrently. I think this will lead to an overall degradation of quality of work and if she ends up with two mediocre GPAs, it won't look good any way you slice it - Midsaggital, transverse, oblique or coronal.
 
I hope so. Then I can put my undergraduate degrees to use. Weeee.

Looked at the site- Lots of interesting PGY1 and PGY2 residencies, also.

The problem for Stephy is that she's pursuing both subjects concurrently. I think this will lead to an overall degradation of quality of work and if she ends up with two mediocre GPAs, it won't look good any way you slice it - Midsaggital, transverse, oblique or coronal.


Well I know HS doesn't really matter but I maintained a 3.9 GPA there and a 4.0 GPA thus far at Argosy. They use the +/- scale so it's hard, very hard. Towards the end of my HS I started Argosy , yes at the sametime and I seemed to handle that well? I know other avenues can be way different though.
 
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