What are my chances of getting into pharmacy school?

[chuynh1991]

So pretty much this whole quarter at UCSD destroyed my GPA. I got a 2.53 GPA (2 C+'s :[) this quarter and my accumulative UC GPA dropped to a 3.02. My community college GPA was a 3.67 if that matters. I currently have no extracurricular activities but am planning to start volunteering this summer. I don't know if it will help my application or not but I believe something that would make me stand out would be that I lost 100 pounds when I was obese, I came from an impoverished area(pretty much the ghetto) and am the first in my family to go to college. I was just wondering what are my chances of still getting into a pharmacy school in California or out of state if it really came down to it.

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[Ayuka001]

So pretty much this whole quarter at UCSD destroyed my GPA. I got a 2.53 GPA (2 C+'s :[) this quarter and my accumulative UC GPA dropped to a 3.02. My community college GPA was a 3.67 if that matters. I currently have no extracurricular activities but am planning to start volunteering this summer. I don't know if it will help my application or not but I believe something that would make me stand out would be that I lost 100 pounds when I was obese, I came from an impoverished area(pretty much the ghetto) and am the first in my family to go to college. I was just wondering what are my chances of still getting into a pharmacy school in California or out of state if it really came down to it.

well pharmcas will calculate your gpa based on sciences, non-sciences, by year, etc.
Try to keep everythhing above a 3.0. For CA if you'd probably need a cumulative of 3.3+ to be competitive unless you have extremely awesome extracurricular/research/volunteering. Otherwise look for out of state, do well on the pcat.

 

[PharmLife4Me]

well pharmcas will calculate your gpa based on sciences, non-sciences, by year, etc.
Try to keep everythhing above a 3.0. For CA if you'd probably need a cumulative of 3.3+ to be competitive unless you have extremely awesome extracurricular/research/volunteering. Otherwise look for out of state, do well on the pcat.

Yeah, and PharmCAS GPA calculations suck! I had a bad first semester and took 5 classes made D's and C's and retook them all later and got A's. Even with 3 years of maintaining 3.8+ GPA's and a transcript GPA of 3.78, PharmCAS still recalculated my overall to be 3.27...

 

[68quebec]

Yeah, and PharmCAS GPA calculations suck! I had a bad first semester and took 5 classes made D's and C's and retook them all later and got A's. Even with 3 years of maintaining 3.8+ GPA's and a transcript GPA of 3.78, PharmCAS still recalculated my overall to be 3.27...

how could that even possible?

 

[abeautifulday]

well pharmcas will calculate your gpa based on sciences, non-sciences, by year, etc.
Try to keep everythhing above a 3.0. For CA if you'd probably need a cumulative of 3.3+ to be competitive unless you have extremely awesome extracurricular/research/volunteering. Otherwise look for out of state, do well on the pcat.

Hey, do you know any pharmacy school that low GPA student can apply to?
Thanks