Pharmcas and classes help!!!! please

[khoinguyen]

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hi everybody,
I am going to take the PCAT in this January 2013 and apply to schools for the 2014 admission. Basically, i am a Respiratory therapy student at Salisbury universit maryland; however, i do not perform well in those Respiratory classes. At the end of this fall semester 2012, i will just earn a C (4 credits) and a D (3 credits). In addition, i am going to drop out of this program and start to study for the Pcat. I know Pharmcas requires applicants to submit all the courses from every institution they study, so my question is will those bad grades above affect my chance to get into Pharmacy schools at all? (especially all the schools now look at the GPA that calculated by Pharmcas, in which, those bad grades will lower my GPA as well as calculated through Pharmcas). I did well in my pre-requisite courses though. (i am a foreign, so please forgive me for any type of grammars and sentences problem 😳). Thanks for reading my post.

 

[conperk]

Yes, the schools you apply to will see the GPAs PharmCAS calculates. However, many (if not most) schools of pharmacy calculate a separate GPA only from the courses that are part of their pre-pharmacy curriculum requirements. Any extra classes, like the respiratory ones, will be excluded from this particular GPA. While I don't know info like the schools you are applying to, your previous grades, etc., I think this part of the admissions process may work in your favor. It all depends on how much emphasis each school places on this piece of information.

 

[xtsukiyox]

It seems like you may want to contact some pharmacy schools you would like to go to. Each school really has their own way of calculating the GPA for candidates (many vary from what PharmCAS shows). You may want to look for schools that disregard classes not applicable to pharmacy, if such a school exists.

However, I would advocate caution - make sure you don't just say "I can't do this program, so I'm going for pharmacy." No adcom wants to hear that pharmacy is your second choice, and besides, what makes them think you'll be successful in pharmacy?