You didn’t get accepted this year. Consider that as a blessing. The job market is not good for pharmacists that graduate after four years. Salaries have been cut in retail along with hours as many new grads are becoming grad interns instead of floaters and even full time staff. Pharmacy residents are finding it hard to get jobs even after a PGY-2 in their desired speciality as there is now a surplus of residents.
You just cashed out your luck, run!!!
Either that or OP doesn't have a pulse
Sorry to hear that, but it means you didn't get accepted to school. Email the school now and ask them why you got denied and what can you improve to be a better candidate? If you are passionate about pharmacy apply to other school this cycle or wait until next year. Good Luck!
I think pre-pharms confuse their passion for "observing what pharmacists do as a bystander in the pharmacy setting" with a "passion for pharmacy." Same deal as pre-meds who have a "passion for medicine" -- there is simply no way that you'll know if you actually have a passion for the field until you have worked as a licensed physician but by then it's already too late to switch out to something else.
You need to stop jumping in every pharmacy discussion board and put students down because they chose pharmacy. Yes I am passionate about pharmacy even though I know the salary is down or there aren't a lot of jobs, but I am still PASSIONATE ABOUT PHARMACY!!!! So keep your advice to yourself.
Please read this thread about "pharmacy passion" and answer us this: what exactly is pharmacy passion and why do you have a passion in it?
Those with just a pulse and $200k+ in loan eligibility. You get what you pay for...
Here come the trolls...
And yet here you pre-pharms are, posting questions to ask for advice on discussion boards. If someone is doing the favor of explaining to you that you've made a poor life choice by doing pharmacy then you have the obligation to explain why you think you made a great life choice. It's called two-way reciprocity. Otherwise half these threads would be completely dead. This isn't participation trophy central where you get to put in no work and expect to have someone else bring you steak on a platter.
What's a stupid question to ask, "what is pharmacy passion" or "why are you passionate about pharmacy?" Those have to be the starting point of ANY pharmacy school /career question because it is the basis for if you are in it for legitimate reasons (in which case future conversations can be productive) or not (i.e. why would anyone give you a straight answer on "what pharmacy specialty recommendations you should do" when you're just in it for the money or fame). That is like telling an interviewer to not ask the "tell me about yourself" question during an interview with someone they don't know.
You are totally wrong because I have worked with many different pharmacists and almost all of them were so nice to customers and have passion about what they were doing. They even helped technicians with their work and made the work environment nice! May I ask what career did you choose?
Technically, going to every pre-pharm forum to ask the same question is trolling. It would be the same as me going to every pharmacy forum and asking why you guys haven't gotten into computer science yet due to the better job prospects. Can't do that.
The truth is the people going into pharmacy school right now have no better options. That or dangerously extreme ignorance are the only explanation for spending 6-10 years in school to make less than a nurse in 2025.
