1.Mandatory professional dress code at all times.
2. Hourly attendance checks everyday.
3. No food or drinks in the lecture hall.
4. Relatively unknown school
I would like to elaborate on this if you all don't mind. Pharmacy profession itself requires a certain degree of professionalism in order to gain respect from your patients or from ppl in general. school is not only responsible for teaching you the material, but also responsible for teaching you how to act like a pharmacist. For the attendance, YOU ARE PAYING OVER 100K FOR THE PROGRAM, YOU NEED TO BE THERE.
Therefore, dress code and all that is only for your own benefit.
how do you know so much about the school if it is unknown 😛
bottom line if you can't attend and dress professionally and eat outside the classroom, you probably need to consider another profession.
You seem to have a lot of preconceptions about what pharmacy is like without actually having started pharmacy school yet.
As for attendance, since it's a 3 year program, I suppose attendance could be important. Not to me personally or my style of learning. But mandatory attendance checks seems very juvenile and maybe even patronizing of "professionals".
As for dress code, I suppose it is a requirement for retail and industry pharmacists. But the hospital pharmacist that dresses professionally on a daily basis is like a unicorn. It's extremely impractical. Once again, "dress codes" are something the matriculating students should have learned before entering pharmacy school.
I suppose I shouldn't say the school is "unknown", but less reputable at least compared to the other schools in Georgia. They have lower admission standards (I believe they just eliminated the PCAT requirement, low as it was at ~50% previously) and lower NAPLEX/MPJE pass rates. Though their 3-year curriculum may have something to do with that, my colleagues are in general agreement that, generally, the students are not usually the best (though better than PCOM).
As for eating. Literally all pharmacists, retail and hospital, eat on the go or at their workstation.
In any case, South University's parent company went through, and lost, a rather large federal lawsuit having to do with their financial aid and recruiting practices.
In Decemeber, they were put on a 12-month warning by SACS (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges) which is their accreditation association for the entire college due to their financial situation. This is because they most recently lost their case in November, so things are looking on the pessimistic side for them. Don't think they have a problem with the ACPE accreditation, but they're pretty lazy anyway.
