% of getting into pharm school

[cccat]

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However pharm school tells that they get approximately over 1000 applicants each year, I do not think the chance of getting into pharm school is not that that bad. If you wait patiently and apply several pharm school, you will most likely get into one of pharm school.

Because
UCSD 65
UCSF 120
USC 180
UOP 120
Western U 120
Loma Linda 64
Turo 80

Look how many they are accepting in CA per year.
your competition is two or three to one.

Any one disagree with my opinion!!!!

 

[soccerfreak]

That seems like a pretty low number of applicants. Last year, this was in chicago, Midwestern University received 2800 applications. Most schools receive about 1500 to 2500. Plus you have those spots which are already taken by the people in the dual acceptance programs.

 

[eddie269]

Umm, so if each school gets around 1000 applicantions each year (which isn't always true. I know LLU receives closer to 1500), that means there are ~7000 applications total in CA. Those numbers you listed show how many spots each school will have next year (~750 seats).

According to my math, 750 seats for ~7000 app's is more like 10 to 1 odds, which are not good for anyone. This really does make CA one of those most (if not the most) competitve states to get accepted for pharmacy school.

Unless I'm missing something?? 😕

 

[DrBowtie]

They accept more than 750 because they don't have 100% yields.

 

[ombastic]

=( this is why i hate that i living in california

 

[steveysmith54]

same applicats apply to the all schools, usually (hopefully)

hopefully that makes things better b/c each person can only choose one school. MOST OF THE TIME.

 

[drugdoc]

Yes, you are missing a major point that many people fail to realize. When a school says they rec'd 1500 applicants, not all of those applicants are complete applications! You can cut the number in appx. half and get at how many complete applications there actually are. The low number may be due to substandard GPA's, PCAT score, didn't have the right prerequisite courses, didn't turn in the supplemental, didn't pay the supplemental fee, etc. It's very true!!

 

[honeykrown]

You also failed to notice that most of those applying to these schools also apply to others (u have 1 person applying to 7schools), these makes all these applications many, also there's the complete and incomplete applications. There are other schools around califonia u can look into. Hopefully it will increase ur chances of getting into these schools.

 

[abt04]

altho what you all say have merit, you may be forgetting that people outside california are also in the mix. other states do prefer their own students to out of state due to believing that these people will still contribute to their state as pharmacists. but people out of state are also trying to get into cali pharm schools and then most likely stay in california as well. so yea im looking at each school accepting about 10 or 15 % more than they have space for, but that still makes it really hard to get in no matter what.

but why are we talking about this? if you get in, then u get in. dont worry about the competition, there isnt really much you can do to change that right? i only applied to 2 schools in cali(touro and UOP). i didnt get anything from uop but got accepted to touro, im declining it to go to Nova in florida. so you never know. some people may be crazy like me and attend an out of state school for various reasons
for me choosing Nova (Fl) over Touro (Ca) was cuz accredited for over 15 years and cheaper (by 50k overall) am i wrong? am i crazy?? should i have picked touro over Nova? lol i know i already made the decision, but i guess im still thinking if i made the right choice.....

 

[G0T2PS]

I suppose the competition into pharmacy isn't as great as it is hyped to be... as no one is really conducting a statistical analysis of these numbers given by pharmacy schools. A lot of it I believe is marketing strategy to attract more academic superstars into the pharmacy profession in order to garner more prestige. I'm not denying the competitiveness... just agreeing with the person who broached the topic that we as applicants view pharmacy as very competitive.. which it is.. but not to the extent I believe most people are under the impression of.

 

[drugdoc]

Pharmacy school is still very competitive, even if 10:1 or 20:1 or 5:1. And, I'm sure that Dentistry, Medical Doctors, Vets all have similar situations to ours where the applicant pool numbers are deceptive.

There is an interesting website that I have looked at a few times: AACP.org. It has a few interesting links under "for students and applicants," and shows various graphs and statistical data on gender, race, school, graduation, etc. etc. etc. etc. It seems that the actual stat from 2004/5 was 7.4 applications per 1 entering student. Now this was before? or right around the time of PharmCAS, so the number most likely is greater than 7.4:1. BUT, then you take in to consideration most students are applying to multiple schools because of the 'ease' of PharmCAS. So, I'd like to see some updated information on the site soon, but that is the latest they have.

Here is the link: http://www.aacp.org/site/page.asp?TrackID=&VID=1&CID=29&DID=3022. Again, takes some navigating to get the whole picture; there is a lot of information in various links. I think a lot of speculation can be answered if posters did some research...and it would make for more interesting SDN discussions.....

 

[Farmercyst]

Pharmacy school is still very competitive, even if 10:1 or 20:1 or 5:1. And, I'm sure that Dentistry, Medical Doctors, Vets all have similar situations to ours where the applicant pool numbers are deceptive.

There is an interesting website that I have looked at a few times: AACP.org. It has a few interesting links under "for students and applicants," and shows various graphs and statistical data on gender, race, school, graduation, etc. etc. etc. etc. It seems that the actual stat from 2004/5 was 7.4 applications per 1 entering student. Now this was before? or right around the time of PharmCAS, so the number most likely is greater than 7.4:1. BUT, then you take in to consideration most students are applying to multiple schools because of the 'ease' of PharmCAS. So, I'd like to see some updated information on the site soon, but that is the latest they have.

Here is the link: http://www.aacp.org/site/page.asp?TrackID=&VID=1&CID=29&DID=3022. Again, takes some navigating to get the whole picture; there is a lot of information in various links. I think a lot of speculation can be answered if posters did some research...and it would make for more interesting SDN discussions.....

The 7.4 : 1. Is that unique applicants or did they take the total number of applications received divided by the total number of seats available. Or was it PharmCAS applications received divided by PharmCAS seats filled. It seems almost impossible to get a solid number for total unique applicants to all 100+ schools. It would be well over 100,000 if each application reported by each school was unique (which is nowhere near the case. Who only puts in one app to one school?) Too bad there's not some equation like for effective nuclear charge? (I'll let you chemists figure that out.😉 )

 

[drugdoc]

Farmer,

As I alluded to, not sure what the 7.4 exactly is. I wish there would be some group out there who did do stats on our sort of questions! But then again, what would we do with all of our spare time....study/work on PharmCAS stuff? 🙂

 

[Farmercyst]

Farmer,

As I alluded to, not sure what the 7.4 exactly is. I wish there would be some group out there who did do stats on our sort of questions! But then again, what would we do with all of our spare time....study/work on PharmCAS stuff? 🙂

Sorry, I suppose I should have tagged that as a rhetorical question. I doubt anyone, probably not even the people who wrote the stats, have an accurate response to that question.