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Will my dropout transcripts haunt me and prevent me from getting into pharmacy?
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I had a somewhat similar situation to yours. I screwed up royally my first year in college (hence the joining the Navy 
). I used the personal statement opportunity on my pharmacy school application to explain how I had changed from the person I was back then to the person applying to their school today. I got in.
What you might worry about is the system they use for calculating your applicant GPA. If they use PharmCAS, those grades will hurt your end GPA big time. If not, they might let you replace some of them if you've again taken them and done better. I believe USN is one school everyone points to as having "academic forgiveness."
But in short: no, you're not up a creek.
Or maybe you are, but you definitely have a paddle. 😀
). I used the personal statement opportunity on my pharmacy school application to explain how I had changed from the person I was back then to the person applying to their school today. I got in.What you might worry about is the system they use for calculating your applicant GPA. If they use PharmCAS, those grades will hurt your end GPA big time. If not, they might let you replace some of them if you've again taken them and done better. I believe USN is one school everyone points to as having "academic forgiveness."
But in short: no, you're not up a creek.
Or maybe you are, but you definitely have a paddle. 😀
Nope. If fact it is my biggest obstacle that I am having to get around. If I could just convince people to think "what have you done lately" I would be fine, but pharmcas adds it back into the GPA and makes me look terrible.
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PharmCAS averages all attempts at a single course. If you take US History I and get an F, and then take it two years later and get an A, PharmCAS will see a 0 and a 4, so your end grade for US History I will be a 2.
It's very similar to AMCAS, which is the predominant application service used by MD schools, and a reason quite a few people prefer non-PharmCAS schools (and DO programs on the medicine side).
It's very similar to AMCAS, which is the predominant application service used by MD schools, and a reason quite a few people prefer non-PharmCAS schools (and DO programs on the medicine side).
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I think you are going to be fine. If you still have a 3.5, your application will definitely get looked at. A young and stupid defense is one that lots of people understand. Who hasn't done at least one or two dumb things when they were young, right? If you have a 4.0 since, you aren't that same person anymore. I don't think schools will hold it against you. And if you are really worried, just apply to USN and replace the old grades with your new GPA. They didn't even ask me about my young and dumb phase in which I got 5 Fs. I was pretty worried about my past grades too but it didn't turn out to be an issue.
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