Never ever ever do a postbac as a prepharm student!!!!

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Hello, I don't want to give too much information about myself, but I will say a warning to you pre-pharm students do not do a postbac ever!!! if you get even one bad grade you will be black listed forever and unlike med students we don't have the option of going foreign. Don't ever do a postbac if you want to improve your grades take classes at a community college or at your local college much better than doing a postbac especially don't do a postbac in a medical school they will treat you like trash and leave you no options if do poorly i was in a postbac with a less than 20 percent acceptance rate don't believe the numbers they give you it is all lies!
I have nothing to add to this so don't bother contacting me with questions, besides I am a very unlucky person and i don't want my bad luck to rub off on you, good luck to you young one's.
Remember god loves you even if admissions committee's hate you!
 
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Why not? is it because if you do take your classes at a CC and do bad you don't have to report it to Pharmacas, but if you take it at the college you got your bachelors degree from you will have to report it?😕

Either way I think it is easier to just do very well in the first place so you don't have to worry about re-taking any classes.
 
What I have learned:

1 bad grade during postbac = blacklisted from pharm schools forever



hmm.. yea I don't know about that...
 
SHC1984 said:
Why not? is it because if you do take your classes at a CC and do bad you don't have to report it to Pharmacas, but if you take it at the college you got your bachelors degree from you will have to report it?😕

Either way I think it is easier to just do very well in the first place so you don't have to worry about re-taking any classes.
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All college level courses must be reported to PharmCAS. It doesn't matter if you took it at a CC and did poorly, your grades still have to be reported. I'm only guessing here but I believe if you do poorly in a post-bac program, which is suppose to be a step up from undergrad and you don't improve, it's unlikely schools will look at you as a serious potential candidate.

Also, I believe we all try to do well in college. It's not a matter of wanting to re-take classes, it's more of the life situations that come up. Some people have problems with their home lives. Some, like me, make poor decisions as undergrads by choosing big schools and aren't able to find proper support channels. Just a thought to be kept in mind.
 
Maybe they got the notion that you were truly hoping to get into med school and only saw pharmacy school as a backup plan. Plenty of pharmacy schools have masters degree programs. So why did you choose a med school post bacc program?
 
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It is not my intention to offend you, but I highly doubt that your performance in a post-bac program can be attributed to luck. Many students do a post-bac program if their undergraduate grades are not competitive and many of those students step up their performance to prove that they can handle what pharmacy school will bring.

With that said, for some people, a post-bac might not be the ideal route to an acceptance. For some of us, especially those who work full-time or have a family, community college is a much better option. There is some debate about whether or not someone should go to a CC if their university grades were below average because in SOME regions, it is seen as an easier route. Either way, pharmacy schools take ALL grades into consideration. If you can't manage to bring up your GPA, then you may not be ready for the academic rigor of pharmacy school.

You are right about one thing: if you do poorly the second time around, you have limited options. This is where YOU come in. YOUR performance. It has nothing to do with how med students or other students treated you and it definitely has nothing to do with luck. You failed. Take some personal responsibility. Many of us on this forum did just that and spent a number of years making up for poor choices and many of us are sitting in pharmacy school right now. So, get your **** together, own up to your failure, and do better in school. That's all on you.
 
goodriddens said:
Hello, I don't want to give too much information about myself, but I will say a warning to you pre-pharm students do not do a postbac ever!!! if you get even one bad grade you will be black listed forever and unlike med students we don't have the option of going foreign. Don't ever do a postbac if you want to improve your grades take classes at a community college or at your local college much better than doing a postbac especially don't do a postbac in a medical school they will treat you like trash and leave you no options if do poorly i was in a postbac with a less than 20 percent acceptance rate don't believe the numbers they give you it is all lies!
I have nothing to add to this so don't bother contacting me with questions, besides I am a very unlucky person and i don't want my bad luck to rub off on you, good luck to you young one's.
Remember god loves you even if admissions committee's hate you!
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I don't believe it was the "postbac" that was the issue with the grades.
 
It is not my intention to offend you, but I highly doubt that your performance in a post-bac program can be attributed to luck. Many students do a post-bac program if their undergraduate grades are not competitive and many of those students step up their performance to prove that they can handle what pharmacy school will bring.

With that said, for some people, a post-bac might not be the ideal route to an acceptance. For some of us, especially those who work full-time or have a family, community college is a much better option. There is some debate about whether or not someone should go to a CC if their university grades were below average because in SOME regions, it is seen as an easier route. Either way, pharmacy schools take ALL grades into consideration. If you can't manage to bring up your GPA, then you may not be ready for the academic rigor of pharmacy school.

You are right about one thing: if you do poorly the second time around, you have limited options. This is where YOU come in. YOUR performance. It has nothing to do with how med students or other students treated you and it definitely has nothing to do with luck. You failed. Take some personal responsibility. Many of us on this forum did just that and spent a number of years making up for poor choices and many of us are sitting in pharmacy school right now. So, get your **** together, own up to your failure, and do better in school. That's all on you.
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HmoobRX said:
All college level courses must be reported to PharmCAS. It doesn't matter if you took it at a CC and did poorly, your grades still have to be reported. I'm only guessing here but I believe if you do poorly in a post-bac program, which is suppose to be a step up from undergrad and you don't improve, it's unlikely schools will look at you as a serious potential candidate.

Also, I believe we all try to do well in college. It's not a matter of wanting to re-take classes, it's more of the life situations that come up. Some people have problems with their home lives. Some, like me, make poor decisions as undergrads by choosing big schools and aren't able to find proper support channels. Just a thought to be kept in mind.
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Haha. I choose a big school too and it's very competitive so I know how you feel. Sometime when I look back I could have been getting better grades, stressing less, and eventually getting into a pharm school if I chose another well qualified school. =
Oh well can't go back so I have to move forward. 😉
 
HmoobRX said:
All college level courses must be reported to PharmCAS. It doesn't matter if you took it at a CC and did poorly, your grades still have to be reported. I'm only guessing here but I believe if you do poorly in a post-bac program, which is suppose to be a step up from undergrad and you don't improve, it's unlikely schools will look at you as a serious potential candidate.

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This is a question I have always been wondering...even though it doesn't effect me b/c I only took one class at a CC and its public speaking and I got an A in it.

But anyways, I have always been curious for example if a student have a 3.5 GPA from a 4 year college and took 3 classes at a CC and failed all 3 classes. When they applied to pharmacy school couldn't they just list the classes they took at the 4 year college and therefore have a total GPA of a 3.5? I mean if they don't report the 3 failed classes at a CC who would possibility know that??? People can go to 3 colleges and only report their grades from 1. I mean as long as you have all your prepharm classes what else do you need? Just curious.
 
SHC1984 said:
But anyways, I have always been curious for example if a student have a 3.5 GPA from a 4 year college and took 3 classes at a CC and failed all 3 classes. When they applied to pharmacy school couldn't they just list the classes they took at the 4 year college and therefore have a total GPA of a 3.5? I mean if they don't report the 3 failed classes at a CC who would possibility know that??? People can go to 3 colleges and only report their grades from 1. I mean as long as you have all your prepharm classes what else do you need? Just curious.
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That is why there is a Code of Conduct. When you apply, AdComs are expecting you to be honest and truthful about your application. You could potentially hurt yourself in the long run if you don't act with honesty and integrity, especially for a professional program.
 
HmoobRX said:
That is why there is a Code of Conduct. When you apply, AdComs are expecting you to be honest and truthful about your application. You could potentially hurt yourself in the long run if you don't act with honesty and integrity, especially for a professional program.
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Not only that, but there is also a service in which they can view all the schools you attended.
 
I agree with rxlea and call B.S. on blacklisting. I think you need to smarten up and study harder. ONE bad grad should not keep you out of school. However if its a pre req. then you will have some explaining to do after you retake it. Either way suck it up and get your stuff together and march in a new direction.
 
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