I found this on aacp's website. It's for the 2002-2003 applicants for the class that entered in Fall 2003. I don't think the data for this year's (2003-2004) Pharmcas application explosion will be available until next year. It will be interesting to see how high the number of applications has jumped. But how
do you count each person that applies to fifteen schools. He/she will be considered as 15 different separate applications?
From the numbers they give in the following report (47306 apps and 4.8 apps for every seat), I calculated that there were ~9800 seats to fill among the 84 pharmD programs.
2002-03 APPLICATION POOL
? From September 2002 through August 2003, eighty-nine (89) colleges and schools reported receiving
47,306 applications to first professional degree programs.
? For the 84 colleges and schools reporting application data for both 2002-03 and 2001-02, there was a
37.3 percent increase in the number of applications received.
?
4.8 applications were received by colleges and schools of pharmacy for every one entering student
enrolled in fall 2003. This ratio for 2002-03 was 3.7 applications for every one entering student in fall
2002.
? The majority (65.0 percent) of the applications were submitted by females; 35.0 percent were submitted
by males.
? Underrepresented minorities submitted 13.6 percent of the applications (black, 9.3 percent; Hispanic,
3.7 percent; American Indian, 0.5 percent).
? Over 57 percent (57.4 percent) of the applications to colleges and schools were submitted by individuals
who had 3 or more years of postsecondary education: 27.5 percent had completed 3 or more years of
postsecondary education without earning a degree; 28.5 percent held a baccalaureate; 1.2 percent held
a master's degree; and 0.2 percent held a doctorate.
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Profile of Pharmacy Students
Fall 2003
? The majority (60.0 percent) of applications received by colleges and schools of pharmacy were
submitted by in-state residents.
FALL 2003 ENROLLMENTS
? 43,047 students were enrolled in first professional degree programs; 420 in baccalaureate programs
and 42,627 in Pharm.D.1 degree programs.
? There was a 10.7 percent increase from fall 2002 first professional degree enrollments.
? Underrepresented minorities in first professional degree programs increased 9.5 percent from fall 2002
(black 9.3 percent; Hispanic 9.5 percent; American Indian 13.7 percent). Underrepresented minorities
accounted for 13.89 percent of first professional degree enrollments, down from 14.0 percent in 2002.
? The number of Pharm.D.2 students enrolled (n=3,603) decreased by 12.2 percent from fall 2002.
? There were 355 students enrolled full-time in Pharm.D.2 degree programs, a 20.0 percent decrease
from the 444 enrolled in fall 2002.
? There were 110 students enrolled in traditional part-time Pharm.D.2 degree programs, a 22.5 percent
increase from the 142 enrolled in fall 2002.
? There were 3,138 students enrolled in nontraditional programs, a 10.8 percent decrease over the 3,518
students enrolled in fall 2002.
? At both the M.S. and Ph.D. levels, the greatest numbers of full-time students were enrolled in the
discipline of pharmaceutics (34.5 percent of M.S. students, 40.4 percent of Ph.D. students).
? More females than males were enrolled full-time in M.S. programs, while more males than females were
enrolled full-time in Ph.D. programs. Females accounted for 56.8 percent of the students in M.S.
programs and 47.7 percent of the students in Ph.D. programs.
? The percentage of full-time M.S. students who were underrepresented minorities (black, Hispanic,
American Indian) decreased from 11.7 percent in fall 2002 to 9.9 percent.
? The percentage of full-time Ph.D. students who were underrepresented minorities (black, Hispanic,
American Indian) decreased to 6.3 percent from 6.6 percent in fall 2002.
Here's where this data came from:
http://www.aacp.org/Docs/MainNavigation/InstitutionalData/5876_highlights.pdf
