Pre-Candidate status implies a school is attempting to create a pharmacy school basically. During the first year, the school gets their act together and starts forming goals that meet the standards needed to be a fully accredited school in the future. Once the school obtains candidate status, it has basically met the standards necessary to become fully accredited minus one thing.... a graduating class. So, after that first graduating class, the school will go through the final accredidation piece. In the end, if you choose to go to a school that is not fully accredited yet.... you have to put your trust into them that they are going to do what it takes to get fully accredited. I have been accepted to pharmacy school in Ohio, and I am in this same situation. I trust, though, that my school will complete the accredidation process. Let's hope, because I will be a P3 before they become fully accreditted 🙂
