Sound like a plan?

[UNCJeff]

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Hey guys,

I just recently found out about this site, and I'd like to see what some of you think of my potential success as an applicant.

I've recently graduated from UNC Chapel Hill with a degree in chemistry. I'm applying to pharmacy schools to enter in the fall 2010. My GPA at UNC was a 2.998. I took 18 hours at a local community college in high school and received A's in all classes. Will pharmacy schools include these 18 hours of A in my overall GPA? If so, it would elevate to a 3.12 overall.

I'm looking most strongly at UNC, Campbell, and Wingate here in NC. Calculating my prerequisite GPA's for schools based on pharmCAS info, I came up with a 3.1 for UNC, a 3.44 for Campbell and a 3.37 for Wingate.

I've volunteered in retail pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, and nursing home consultation the last few summers, and I'm taking the PCAT this June.

In my year off, I've applied and been accepted to the MS in pharmaceutical sciences in Campbell's pharmacy school. Ideally, I'd like to complete 1 year of the MS program and then enter Campbell's joint degree program.

So, does this sound like a plan?

 

[tahi193]

Hi. A fellow UNC student here. Go Heels! 😀

It sounds like you have a nice plan. Since you're already going to be a Campbell student in their MS program I would say that will work to your advantage. I'm not sure if I got this right but if you're planning to drop the MS if you only get into UNC or Wingate, I'm not sure if those schools would look favorably on that.

Pharmacy schools will include your community college work. You might know this already but you have to send transcripts from every college or university you've ever attended. Meaning if you took summer school courses somewhere other than UNC, you'll have to get transcripts from there as well.

It sounds like you've done quite a lot of volunteer work so that will look really nice. If you've looked at the average GPAs for the 3 pharmacy schools you're considering, then you probably know that your GPA is on the low side compared to the average. Just study really hard for the PCAT and show them what you're made of. I think UNC and Wingate have average PCAT composite scores of about 86 so try to shoot for the 90s and that will help a lot.

Edit: Wingate's average PCAT is 71. Not sure where I got that it is similar to UNC.

 

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[UNCJeff]

Bugg,

That's exactly my plan. I've spoken with the admissions folks at Campbell and they've encouraged me to do this. It just make a lot of sense - maybe too much sense. Several of the courses in the Master's program can even be applied to the pharmacy program, and vice versa. We'll see what happens...

 

[aboveliquidice]

Hey guys,

I just recently found out about this site, and I'd like to see what some of you think of my potential success as an applicant.

I've recently graduated from UNC Chapel Hill with a degree in chemistry. I'm applying to pharmacy schools to enter in the fall 2010. My GPA at UNC was a 2.998. I took 18 hours at a local community college in high school and received A's in all classes. Will pharmacy schools include these 18 hours of A in my overall GPA? If so, it would elevate to a 3.12 overall.

I'm looking most strongly at UNC, Campbell, and Wingate here in NC. Calculating my prerequisite GPA's for schools based on pharmCAS info, I came up with a 3.1 for UNC, a 3.44 for Campbell and a 3.37 for Wingate.

I've volunteered in retail pharmacy, hospital pharmacy, and nursing home consultation the last few summers, and I'm taking the PCAT this June.

In my year off, I've applied and been accepted to the MS in pharmaceutical sciences in Campbell's pharmacy school. Ideally, I'd like to complete 1 year of the MS program and then enter Campbell's joint degree program.

So, does this sound like a plan?

Sounds like a plan to me...