Trollzorlawl
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Hello everyone,
I'm honestly lost on my school list and was wonder if anyone has any recommendations.
Stats:
ORM; NJ Resident; 1st Generation (if this even makes a difference)
PharmD graduating in 2026 from RU.
cGPA: 3.46 (Slight upward trend) (I know it's pretty low lol)
sGPA: 3.3 (Slight upward trend)
Graduate Pharmacy GPA: ~3.6-3.7
MCAT: 512 (127/128/129/128) 1 attempt.
Clinical Hours: 1000 hour as a pharmacy intern (consultations and vaccinations) and 1000 hours across different rotations during pharmacy school.
These experience include:
200 hour ambulatory care rotation with pharmacist preceptor with full prescriptive authorities so I was essentially making medication changes with approval from my preceptor. Worked up patients, did full review of patient and plan with them without preceptor supervision. Essentially exactly what a family meds physician does.
400 hours at Penn Medicine Princeton doing medication reconciliations and providing recommendations to physicians in terms of medication management and antimicrobial stewardship. Worked 200 hours in the ED at the sight helping with medication questions and management along with preceptor.
200 hours at Old Bridge Medical Center doing medication reconciliation and assisting preceptor with recommendations (essentially the same as Penn Medicine).
200 hours at specialty pharmacy shadowing an ID physician and ID pharmacist in providing need based counseling on HIV and other disease states.
Non-Clinical Hours: ~800 hours as a Walgreens cashier. 400-500 hours of misc. rotations that shouldn't count as clinical since I was mostly filling medication with no patient encounters.
Non-Clinical volunteering: 40 hours NJ Special Olympics working with special needs athletes. Currently only 8 hours at a food bank but I'll probably have ~60-80 hours by application.
Research: 80 hours with a poster presentation.
LORs: 3 PharmD professors (should be quite strong on all of them).
Shadowing: 60 hours IM
My Current List:
Reach (MD):
NJMS
Hackensack
RWJMS
Cooper MD
SUNY
Albany
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Penn State
Quinnipiac
Baseline (DO):
Rowan Virtua
PCOM - PA
MSUCOM
UNECOM
NYIT-COM
I'm dead set on family med as my specialty and loved every second of my time during my rotation so it matters not to me in terms of DO/MD. That and also I don't believe I'm that competitive for MD. However, I want to maximize my chance in getting in this upcoming year to not have to reapp. I don't have a budget for the amount of schools so please recommend as many as you think I would be a decent fit at. Prefer to stay north east but not a requirement.
I'm honestly lost on my school list and was wonder if anyone has any recommendations.
Stats:
ORM; NJ Resident; 1st Generation (if this even makes a difference)
PharmD graduating in 2026 from RU.
cGPA: 3.46 (Slight upward trend) (I know it's pretty low lol)
sGPA: 3.3 (Slight upward trend)
Graduate Pharmacy GPA: ~3.6-3.7
MCAT: 512 (127/128/129/128) 1 attempt.
Clinical Hours: 1000 hour as a pharmacy intern (consultations and vaccinations) and 1000 hours across different rotations during pharmacy school.
These experience include:
200 hour ambulatory care rotation with pharmacist preceptor with full prescriptive authorities so I was essentially making medication changes with approval from my preceptor. Worked up patients, did full review of patient and plan with them without preceptor supervision. Essentially exactly what a family meds physician does.
400 hours at Penn Medicine Princeton doing medication reconciliations and providing recommendations to physicians in terms of medication management and antimicrobial stewardship. Worked 200 hours in the ED at the sight helping with medication questions and management along with preceptor.
200 hours at Old Bridge Medical Center doing medication reconciliation and assisting preceptor with recommendations (essentially the same as Penn Medicine).
200 hours at specialty pharmacy shadowing an ID physician and ID pharmacist in providing need based counseling on HIV and other disease states.
Non-Clinical Hours: ~800 hours as a Walgreens cashier. 400-500 hours of misc. rotations that shouldn't count as clinical since I was mostly filling medication with no patient encounters.
Non-Clinical volunteering: 40 hours NJ Special Olympics working with special needs athletes. Currently only 8 hours at a food bank but I'll probably have ~60-80 hours by application.
Research: 80 hours with a poster presentation.
LORs: 3 PharmD professors (should be quite strong on all of them).
Shadowing: 60 hours IM
My Current List:
Reach (MD):
NJMS
Hackensack
RWJMS
Cooper MD
SUNY
Albany
Drexel
Temple
Jefferson
Penn State
Quinnipiac
Baseline (DO):
Rowan Virtua
PCOM - PA
MSUCOM
UNECOM
NYIT-COM
I'm dead set on family med as my specialty and loved every second of my time during my rotation so it matters not to me in terms of DO/MD. That and also I don't believe I'm that competitive for MD. However, I want to maximize my chance in getting in this upcoming year to not have to reapp. I don't have a budget for the amount of schools so please recommend as many as you think I would be a decent fit at. Prefer to stay north east but not a requirement.
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