Alessandra20
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Hello everyone
I am a junior at the moment and have been pursuing pharmacy and plan on applying for the fall 2021 cycle. In terms of my stats, I have 3.68 gpa right now and pcat within the 80th percentile. Though my transcript is not the best and I was wondering if I have lost my chance at any pharmacy school, I retook a couple of my classes (chem1 three times, bio three times, philosophy twice, and psych two times) I didn't necessarily fail the courses I just wanted to get a higher grade of which I did. I also have an XE on my transcript (means no honorary points) because I was unable to take the final exam which resulted in that letter grade. Besides those classes, I received an A in everything else and when I recalculated my gpa in terms of school averaging out my retakes, it was a 3.32 gpa. I have a pretty solid application in terms of having more than 50+ hours of shadowing at multiple independent pharmacies, I have 6 letters of recommendations (from a physician, a pharmacist, genetics professor, orgo1 professor, calculus professor, and a language professor), an active member of a pre-health organization at my university, a pretty high pcat score, and have started working on my personal statement as well. My question is, due to the number of classes I have taken right now, does that by any chance hinder my acceptance at any pharmacy school? I would really appreciate all the advice I can get from anyone and will even take criticism, there is no sob story of why I retook those classes I just didn't have the best study habits my freshman year and should have taken school a lot more seriously but you live and you learn. I really need some advice please help me out.
I am a junior at the moment and have been pursuing pharmacy and plan on applying for the fall 2021 cycle. In terms of my stats, I have 3.68 gpa right now and pcat within the 80th percentile. Though my transcript is not the best and I was wondering if I have lost my chance at any pharmacy school, I retook a couple of my classes (chem1 three times, bio three times, philosophy twice, and psych two times) I didn't necessarily fail the courses I just wanted to get a higher grade of which I did. I also have an XE on my transcript (means no honorary points) because I was unable to take the final exam which resulted in that letter grade. Besides those classes, I received an A in everything else and when I recalculated my gpa in terms of school averaging out my retakes, it was a 3.32 gpa. I have a pretty solid application in terms of having more than 50+ hours of shadowing at multiple independent pharmacies, I have 6 letters of recommendations (from a physician, a pharmacist, genetics professor, orgo1 professor, calculus professor, and a language professor), an active member of a pre-health organization at my university, a pretty high pcat score, and have started working on my personal statement as well. My question is, due to the number of classes I have taken right now, does that by any chance hinder my acceptance at any pharmacy school? I would really appreciate all the advice I can get from anyone and will even take criticism, there is no sob story of why I retook those classes I just didn't have the best study habits my freshman year and should have taken school a lot more seriously but you live and you learn. I really need some advice please help me out.