PPl accepted with sub 3.0 GPA for fall 05

[humtum]

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Hello everyone,


just need lil encouragement for some of us who has sub 3.0 gpa and still willing to break our heart by letting most of the ppl putting us down, espeically professors and others. I will really really appreciate if some of you would not mind telling us, if you got in any pharmacy school for fall 2005 with gpa below 3.0 and what did you do to make the school pick you over others.
Thankx

 

[Glycerin]

This thread that you started has answers to your current questions. 😉

 

[Pharmalli]

Hi humtum,

I kinna know how you feel. My gpa is not as competitive as i wanted it to be. My GPA is near 3, but I have been really lucky b.c I have been accepted to the school of my choice. Many schools take EVERYTHING ( gpa, pcat, experience, volunteering) into consideration. SO if your GPA is not as competitive as others... i am sure your pcat or your work experience will overshadow that. In addition, just be yourself at the interview. Let them get to see who you really are.

Best of luck! 🙂

 

[punjabisingh]

Hello everyone,


just need lil encouragement for some of us who has sub 3.0 gpa and still willing to break our heart by letting most of the ppl putting us down, espeically professors and others. I will really really appreciate if some of you would not mind telling us, if you got in any pharmacy school for fall 2005 with gpa below 3.0 and what did you do to make the school pick you over others.
Thankx

hye i got into MWU-CPG and SIUE with a GPA of 3.0

 

[RUN DMV]

I think you have to honestly examine yourself and your personality. Considering that there are many applicants with high GPA and PCAT scores, you have to be really special and unique to be considerd instead of them.

Anybody with a GPA lower than 3.0 that is accepted into pharmacy school has to be really unique. They might be a single parent who works two jobs while studying pre-pharm. They might be a winner of a Nobel Peace Prize. Or they probably discovered a cure for AIDS or cancer.

I'm probably a sacrastic jerk but I have to be realistic. My point is that you have to have some exceptional talent, accomplishment or circumstance that makes you a better canidate from everyone else.

 

[young skywalker]

I got into UCSF with a sub 3.0 gpa.
Didn't win any medals, no kids.
Just explained myself well I guess..

 

[Silverwater]

Hello everyone,


just need lil encouragement for some of us who has sub 3.0 gpa and still willing to break our heart by letting most of the ppl putting us down, espeically professors and others. I will really really appreciate if some of you would not mind telling us, if you got in any pharmacy school for fall 2005 with gpa below 3.0 and what did you do to make the school pick you over others.
Thankx

Do well on the PCAT. My GPA is not much over 3.0 but my PCAT was 98 (luckily), and I got interviews from places I didn't expect (not accepted yet). They might be more inclined to consider you. And yes, get involved. And get good rec letters.

Good luck!
Wish me luck too! (got interview with UT tomorrow)

 

[endlesslove]

I got into UCSF with a sub 3.0 gpa.
Didn't win any medals, no kids.
Just explained myself well I guess..

you must be the one James Bebetze always refers to (annonymously, of course) when he talks about admissions of people with a GPA below 3.0 (of course, there are always a few others in your group) congrats tho!

 

[humtum]

I got into UCSF with a sub 3.0 gpa.
Didn't win any medals, no kids.
Just explained myself well I guess..

thankx "young skywalker" for your reply...I hope I get in pharmacy school this year, it does not look like it but lets keep the fingers crossed. If not this year, i'll make sure I get in next year
\ but thankx everyone

 

[njac]

my gpa is just under 3.0, like a 2.8 or 9 - my pcat score was like a 94 or 96 cumulative (but school didn't require it), I have no volunteering and no pharmacy experience. Got my letter thursday. What did I do? Knocked em dead in my interview.

 

[njac]

I've gotten a bajillion PMs asking me what I did in my interview so I guess I'll post it here.

#1. Look like a million bucks. I went out and bought a $400 suit and had it tailored. Some nice heels, not hooker shoes, but nice. That morning I went and had my hair done (I am a total gimp with a curling iron) and a manicure - for the week prior I moisturized the hell out of my face and put super heavy lotion on my hands at night while I slept. Tried to sleep as much as I could the night before.

#2. Exude confidence. See #1. I was so nervous I thought I was like Stan on South Park and that I might throw up on someone. I took piblic speaking the semester before and did a few mock interviews in there - while the questions were totally unlike anything in the interview itself it did help me.

#3 Focus on the Positive. I have an entire semesters of WPs and just as many Cs as As. My GPA does an upside down bell curve - starts high, dips very low, comes back up. I focused on the coming back up - mentioned how I grew up and was ready to get to work after getting some kinks out of my system - brought up life lessons from those years of doing poorly and what I learned from what was going on in my life.

#4 State School - if it is a state school tell them how long your family has been there (mine = 100 years, even if I'd never lived inthe state until August) and that you want to stay forever. Seriously, they want to hear that stuff.

#5 You! They want to know you, they don't want a 4.0 drone. I mentioned my hobby (horseback riding) in my essay - go figure one of my interviewers was a horse person - that didn't hurt. But don't be afraid to crack (classy) jokes or be brutally honest about something if you have to be. Like when they asked me why I want to be a pharmacist and not ride professionally, (this was before I knew the interviewer had horses) I said "because I believe in seperating career and hobbies, but mostly because horse people are crazy!"

Anyway, don't be too nervous, be yourself, look like a million bucks - its money well spent. Girls- don't forget the wonders of a (discrete) push up bra.

 

[ZpackSux]

I got into UCSF with a sub 3.0 gpa.
Didn't win any medals, no kids.
Just explained myself well I guess..

Is your mom's name Mary Anne? 🙄

 

[drhemi70]

here we go,
-went to college for 5 years. 2 degrees -biochem-biomed
-gpa from those years 2.98
-worked at a pharmaceutical company for 4 years designing the biological side of drugs- always praised for being a good empolyee
-started taking prereqs for pharmacy that I missed the first time around-these include anat/phys, chemII (it had been 7 years and I needed a refresher for pcat) calc I and II, and macro econ(don't know why some schools require this)
-GPA from above classes taken at two different school that are different from my degree school =4.0
-first applied for 2004 something like 10 schools none of which require the pcat..started to late to take it, got no thank you back from all.
-took pcat in oct 2005 92%
-finished taking above prereq classes the next year and reapplied to 4 schools (south dak state, Univ of Utah, Univ of wyo, and midwestern) submitted apps in jan.
-got no thank yous from all but wyo, got interview there and was admitted on this last friday.
MY THOUGHTS ON HOW TO GET IN:
-do well on pcat spend time studing what's 3 months to the rest of your life
-get as many A's as possible for the remainder of you classes
-I didn't worry about personal statement or interview as these are strong areas that I work in all the time at work
good luck to all hope this helps,
DR