University of Iowa Application Thread

[bananaface]

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I think biochem didn't use the book. What are the other books they suggest you buy?

 

[RXoneAl]

I think biochem didn't use the book. What are the other books they suggest you buy?

So here are the books that are in the list:

Drug Information: A Guide for Pharmacists, 3rd Edition MaloneMcGraw Hill

A Practical Guide to Contemporary Pharmacy Practice, 3rd Edition Thompson Lippincott. This is the newer edition so is it ok to buy an older version?

Pharmaceutical Calculations, 13th Edition Stoklosa Lippincott, William & Wilkins

Fundamentals of Evaluating Clinical Research
Drug Information: A Guide for Pharmacists, 3rd Edition MaloneMcGraw Hill

Evidence-Based Pharmacotherapy Chiquette & PoseyAmerican Pharmacists Association

Buying Pharmaceutics-I (Solutions) book is really inexpensive, so I'm not including it in the list.

 

[bananaface]

Malone is available online through Hardin Library. You do not need to pay for it. If you go to the Hardin Library Homepage http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin , click Health Sciences Resources A - Z, and then Access Pharmacy you will log in with your HawkID. Choose textbooks from the green menu bar and then Drug Information: A Guide for Pharmacists, 3e.

The Rovers and Currie book has been in 3rd edition for over 4 years, so you may not find a 2nd edition easily. I don't think having a 2nd ed. would be an issue though. You will need it for a few different classes over the course of the curriculum. Not online.

Definitely buy the calculations book. You will use it every semester. You have PPL math and then a math exam each semester. Not online.

That is a new pharmacotherapy book. What class is that for? PPL?

It has been awhile since 1st year, but I seem to recall the course coordinator for Solutions putting the book down as required when he just wanted us to have a good reference book and then never using it for the course. But, there are some additional instructors for the course now who might use the book. Even though it is cheap, you might just wait until you can see the syllabus on ICON before picking up that book.

 

[RXoneAl]

Malone is available online through Hardin Library. You do not need to pay for it. If you go to the Hardin Library Homepage http://www.lib.uiowa.edu/hardin , click Health Sciences Resources A - Z, and then Access Pharmacy you will log in with your HawkID. Choose textbooks from the green menu bar and then Drug Information: A Guide for Pharmacists, 3e.

The Rovers and Currie book has been in 3rd edition for over 4 years, so you may not find a 2nd edition easily. I don't think having a 2nd ed. would be an issue though. You will need it for a few different classes over the course of the curriculum. Not online.

Definitely buy the calculations book. You will use it every semester. You have PPL math and then a math exam each semester. Not online.

That is a new pharmacotherapy book. What class is that for? PPL?

It has been awhile since 1st year, but I seem to recall the course coordinator for Solutions putting the book down as required when he just wanted us to have a good reference book and then never using it for the course. But, there are some additional instructors for the course now who might use the book. Even though it is cheap, you might just wait until you can see the syllabus on ICON before picking up that book.

Thank you so much for the reply! I guess I'm all set to buy these books now! BTW the new Pharmacotherapy book is for the Fundamentals of Evaluating Clinical Research class.

 

[bananaface]

If you are interested in attending an SDN meetup and having dinner with other Iowa City are SDNers (on SDN), shoot me a PM and I'll be sure to let you know when we set the date.

Right now we are trying to decide between Red's Alehouse in North Liberty (awesome food) and Old Chicago on the Coralville Strip. For Red's the date would be Saturday Aug 6th or Saturday September 10th. For Old Chicago, we could do any weeknight including Tuesday 8pm Slice Night.

 

[Pharmcity88]

Could anyone share their current stats if they have been accepted for 2012 school yr? Thanks..

 

[tariqsa]

I recently found out that they will be sending out interview invites during late january.

 

[PharmD for Me]

I saw that this was an active thread, and thought I'd pop in. I applied and got accepted here last year, but declined for a different school. Here's some words of hope for you 2011 applicants!

They accept over 200 (it might have been more) people right off the bat (after interviews, of course) because they know that a lot of people don't have it as their first choice. Their words, not mine.

The interview was the most laid back of the three I had. They were set up as three interviewers and the interviewee.

If you have a BA or BS you have a very good chance of getting accepted since many people that go there just do the pre-requisite classes. I saw someone else post that if you have a 3.5 GPA and an 80th percentile on the PCAT and don't bomb the interview, you'll get accepted. From what I know that sounded correct and you would probably get away with lower stats pretty easily, especially if you're "well-rounded."

If you are out of state, you do have to pay out of state tuition but there's a GPA-based scholarship that brings it down to almost in-state tuition. I think you got the scholarship if you maintained a 3.5 GPA or higher, but it may have been 3.75.

Good luck to you all!

 

[tariqsa]

I saw that this was an active thread, and thought I'd pop in. I applied and got accepted here last year, but declined for a different school. Here's some words of hope for you 2011 applicants!

They accept over 200 (it might have been more) people right off the bat (after interviews, of course) because they know that a lot of people don't have it as their first choice. Their words, not mine.

The interview was the most laid back of the three I had. They were set up as three interviewers and the interviewee.

If you have a BA or BS you have a very good chance of getting accepted since many people that go there just do the pre-requisite classes. I saw someone else post that if you have a 3.5 GPA and an 80th percentile on the PCAT and don't bomb the interview, you'll get accepted. From what I know that sounded correct and you would probably get away with lower stats pretty easily, especially if you're "well-rounded."

If you are out of state, you do have to pay out of state tuition but there's a GPA-based scholarship that brings it down to almost in-state tuition. I think you got the scholarship if you maintained a 3.5 GPA or higher, but it may have been 3.75.

Good luck to you all!

Awesome!! I just love the fact that you know so much, which is really helpful for us applicants!! 😀

 

[PharmD for Me]

Awesome!! I just love the fact that you know so much, which is really helpful for us applicants!! 😀

I'm glad I can help! Iowa seemed to be really good at giving you the information straight and not padding their statistics just for the sake of looking better.

OT, but...

If you're like me and applied to most of the upper-midwest schools... I also interviewed at UW Madison and U of MN if people want more info on that (I'm a P1 at U of MN). Just message me or something.

If you applied to Drake in IA and don't hear from them by early early January, call them. A friend and I missed out on interviews because both of us never got the email notifications, despite checking our email and junk mail every day. We followed up with them too late, unfortunately.

PS. Don't stay at the RoadStar Inn in Madison. Your neighbors will have people running up and down the halls screaming for help because their friend ODed on meth at 4 am. Then you'll have cops and EMTs buzzing around for hours when you are trying to sleep before your 7:30 am interview. True story. If you are willing to risk that for the cheap rooms, bring your own pillow. Hardest. Pillows. Ever. Madison was awesome, though 🙂

 

[Uwrf]

I'm confused as to the GPA considered for admission to Iowa's College of Pharmacy. It's definitely a school I strongly consider, but I'm at a loss as to what their cumulative GPA requirement is. The AACP admissions and narrative page says that Iowa considers something as low as a 2.5, but the college website says it considers as low as 3.0.
Which one is it? I realize I'm probably missing something obvious, so I'm prepared for perhaps a somewhat backhanded answer🙄.

 

[bananaface]

I'm confused as to the GPA considered for admission to Iowa's College of Pharmacy. It's definitely a school I strongly consider, but I'm at a loss as to what their cumulative GPA requirement is. The AACP admissions and narrative page says that Iowa considers something as low as a 2.5, but the college website says it considers as low as 3.0.
Which one is it? I realize I'm probably missing something obvious, so I'm prepared for perhaps a somewhat backhanded answer🙄.

Both sites say 2.5 minimum, unless you are looking at another part of Iowa's website that needs updating.

http://schoolpages.pharmcas.org/publishedsurvey/476
http://www.pharmacy.uiowa.edu/admissions/qanda.htm#gpa

What GPA do you require for admission? You must have at least a 2.5 PharmCAS cumulative GPA to apply. Most years, accepted students have had a GPA at 3.0 or above, especially in math and science coursework. The average GPA accepted in 2011 was 3.41 and the average PCAT composite score was 65%.

 

[Uwrf]

Both sites say 2.5 minimum, unless you are looking at another part of Iowa's website that needs updating.

http://schoolpages.pharmcas.org/publishedsurvey/476
http://www.pharmacy.uiowa.edu/admissions/qanda.htm#gpa

Ah I see, thank you. I suppose it doesn't matter all too much anyway. Iowa is still a very competitive school, therefore having at least a 2.5 doesn't say anything about someone... unless he/she has a boatload of leadership and or pharmacy experience along with volunteer activities and EC.

 

[klj5269]

So they don't interview until Jan/Feb? I applied really early, I guess this was kind of unnecessary. But I did get an email today that was basically like "hey, we see you've been interviewing at other places, don't forget about us". I wish they interviewed earlier...

 

[lilipad89]

So they don't interview until Jan/Feb? I applied really early, I guess this was kind of unnecessary. But I did get an email today that was basically like "hey, we see you've been interviewing at other places, don't forget about us". I wish they interviewed earlier...

WHOA. You have really great stats! I wonder why U of Michigan deferred you! 🙁 But seeing that Iowa sent an email out to you, I guess they are interested in you at least. 🙂 I didn't hear from them yet. I wonder also how they even knew you were interviewing..

 

[bananaface]

So they don't interview until Jan/Feb? I applied really early, I guess this was kind of unnecessary. But I did get an email today that was basically like "hey, we see you've been interviewing at other places, don't forget about us". I wish they interviewed earlier...

Better to get things done early then to do them later and have some part of your app not arrive.

Interviews are generally in February and early March. They have been on 3 different Saturdays in that timeframe for the last several years.

 

[Illinette2012]

Has anyone else received an email from the admissions committee? I intend to send my supplemental in the next few weeks before the December 1 deadline, but I received an email this morning. It's from the Associate Dean saying he has reviewed my PharmCAS application and thinks I put together an excellent application, and to feel free to contact him with any questions as he hopes to speak with me again. I wasn't sure if they send this to every applicant especially since they probably can see that i haven't submitted my supplemental yet.

 

[tariqsa]

Has anyone else received an email from the admissions committee? I intend to send my supplemental in the next few weeks before the December 1 deadline, but I received an email this morning. It's from the Associate Dean saying he has reviewed my PharmCAS application and thinks I put together an excellent application, and to feel free to contact him with any questions as he hopes to speak with me again. I wasn't sure if they send this to every applicant especially since they probably can see that i haven't submitted my supplemental yet.

I got the same email after i submitted my supplemental. Which was a long time ago.

 

[klj5269]

Its weird because I submitted my supplemental and everything over a month ago but I just got that email the other day. I'm thinking they all share with each other who is applying/interviewing (or stalking us 😛) where because I just interviewed at Michigan last week and they alluded to that in the email Iowa just sent.

 

[Illinette2012]

Its weird because I submitted my supplemental and everything over a month ago but I just got that email the other day. I'm thinking they all share with each other who is applying/interviewing (or stalking us 😛) where because I just interviewed at Michigan last week and they alluded to that in the email Iowa just sent.

That's so weird how they knew that. I wonder if certain schools share with each other which applicants they are interviewing or if there's some way for them to look it up. I'm actually interviewing at Michigan this Friday so it'll be interesting if I end up getting a similar email from Iowa in a few weeks. Hmmm.

 

[lilipad89]

Has anyone else received an email from the admissions committee? I intend to send my supplemental in the next few weeks before the December 1 deadline, but I received an email this morning. It's from the Associate Dean saying he has reviewed my PharmCAS application and thinks I put together an excellent application, and to feel free to contact him with any questions as he hopes to speak with me again. I wasn't sure if they send this to every applicant especially since they probably can see that i haven't submitted my supplemental yet.

Hrm, I got an email from them today too. Same thing with the "excellent application". Guessing this is something generic they put on all our emails. He also pointed to specific things in my personal statement. Good news or bad? Interviews aren't until Feb. The wait seems like forever!

 

[kmn912]

Got the same "excellent application" email! However, in it he said he "couldn't imagine anyone that could blast me away from California Northstate" but am glad I applied! Very interesting considering I haven't even submitted the supp NOR have I applied to Northstate! haha

 

[lilipad89]

Got the same "excellent application" email! However, in it he said he "couldn't imagine anyone that could blast me away from California Northstate" but am glad I applied! Very interesting considering I haven't even submitted the supp NOR have I applied to Northstate! haha

LOL. Where is he getting this info from? I submitted my supp in September, so I wonder why he's contacting all the people who haven't submitted a supp yet. Weird...

 

[Illinette2012]

LOL. Where is he getting this info from? I submitted my supp in September, so I wonder why he's contacting all the people who haven't submitted a supp yet. Weird...

Maybe they really want our $100 for the supplemental application fee? I was just waiting a few more weeks since they don't do rolling admissions. It is kind of funny though we're all getting emails from them.

 

[lilipad89]

Maybe they really want our $100 for the supplemental application fee? I was just waiting a few more weeks since they don't do rolling admissions. It is kind of funny though we're all getting emails from them.

That's what I was thinking too hehe. $100 is a little more on the expensive side compared to how much my other schools were. Good thing it only costs $250 to host a spot compared to some schools I applied to who are asking $2000 to hold a spot! 😱

 

[klj5269]

They probably don't want people to forget about them now that some are getting interviews and acceptances from other schools since they don't even interview or accept at all until February.