Transfering into 0-6 years program?

[skazyjae]

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Hello, i am currently enrolled to the University of Texas for the first year of my college life. my gpa is not up yet, since this is my first semester in college
i am guessing that it would be 3.5+
I talked to many people who are preparing for the pharmacy school and i found out that it is competitive to get into the pharmacy school.
I actually got accepted to St. Louis's 0-6 program, but i rejected it because the tuition was expensive and i didnt know anything about the pharmacy.

Is there any way to transfer to 0-6 program? or start off as a freshman?

and i also have,
high school gpa: 3.7
sat: 1340/1600, 1920/2400

 

[Clemsong05]

Hello, i am currently enrolled to the University of Texas for the first year of my college life. my gpa is not up yet, since this is my first semester in college
i am guessing that it would be 3.5+
I talked to many people who are preparing for the pharmacy school and i found out that it is competitive to get into the pharmacy school.
I actually got accepted to St. Louis's 0-6 program, but i rejected it because the tuition was expensive and i didnt know anything about the pharmacy.

Is there any way to transfer to 0-6 program? or start off as a freshman?

and i also have,
high school gpa: 3.7
sat: 1340/1600, 1920/2400

transfering is almost impossible for undergrad because they already have the class size and ud only be able to get in if you had all A's in pre-pharm classes or if ppl dropped out, which is almost unlikely. my advice is you should start all over again and apply for first semester freshman year....

 

[xsc614]

I tried this twice, and was unsuccessful each time (at Northeastern). The way they explained it is you HAD to enter in the 3rd year, when they started the 'professional' level courses, and had to have a very high GPA (3.5+) to even be considered, and the only seats available were of those of students dropping out between 2nd and 3rd year. There were about 15-20 other students trying to transfer each time and from what I was told there was 1 seat available 1 year and 2 the other year... so they were likely given to students with a 4.0 and an essentially perfect record.

 

[Sine Cura]

The process of "transferring" into a 0-6 program is in most cases equivalent to applying to a traditional 4-year (or 3-year accelerated) program after fulfilling the necessary prerequisites (you enter the "first professional year" instead of entering the pre-professional years skulking around fulfilling prerequisites).

You should forget about transferring based on your high school credentials, which should be considered worthless now for the purpose of getting a professional degree credential since you're already enrolled as an undergrad and you can't pretend you didn't.

Transferring is not impossible though for many 0-6 programs, but I would wonder why exactly you would want to go to STLCOP now since (1) it's still expensive and (2) there's nothing really special about most 0-6 programs in themselves (especially ones offered by private colleges not part of a university).