Pharmacy school requirements

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lavenderhearts

lavenderhearts

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I am looking at threads here on this website and I see that many people have applied to many different schools who I know have crazy course requirements to get in their school. So, I'm asking you all did you take all the courses that each school require or did you just do the ones that most schools required?😕😕😕
 
What I would recommend to you is to find a good 3-5 schools that you are very interested in and look at their requirements. I would say most of schools have the same requirements (your basic pre-pharmacy classes) and there are some that have maybe an extra class that you may have to take. So yes, it is quite impossible to match EVERY schools requirements and nobody does this.
 
lavenderhearts said:
I am looking at threads here on this website and I see that many people have applied to many different schools who I know have crazy course requirements to get in their school. So, I'm asking you all did you take all the courses that each school require or did you just do the ones that most schools required?😕😕😕
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I live in Florida and there are quite a bit of schools here. At the time I started pre-reqs USF wasn't a pharmacy school yet. I went by the UF pre-req list. The school I ended up getting into wanted less pre-reqs than UF, but on the whole - most schools want what UF had. USF added biochem, cell biology, and genetics. Actually UF is going that way for those applying for 2015 or 2016. Most schools just want: AP 1&2, Bio 1&2, Chem 1&2, Organic Chem 1&2, Microbiology, Statistics, sometimes Effective Communications,Physics I, (UF wants I & II but I only took I since I got into LECOM before the spring semester) and Calculus I (which you need pre-calc & trig to do) - which is just mostly math & the sciences. There are also english requirements & humanities along with educational electives.
 
It's very hard but I did prereqs for almost all schools cause I was applying broadly. In e end I was only missing calc 2 physics 2 and like ethics lol. Otherwise I could have applied to pretty much any school without those classes which is a lot. I applied to like 20 schools. Found out it was overkill.

Just do prereq for the schools you want to go to.
 
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