Your Freshmen Schedule

[Insomniac12]

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How did your Freshmen schedule look like, and for that matter, schedules for every year before Pharmacy school starts/started?

 

[bromine]

FRESHMAN
fall semester- 19 credits (insane!)
winter semester- 18 credits

summer- 1 class (5 credits)

SOPHOMORE
fall semester- 18 credits (included in that is organic chemistry I, which basically left me with no life)
winter semester- 15 credits- this is my current semester, and it's finally a light enough load that I'm able to have a little bit of a social life.

You only have to take this rough of a schedule if you take a two-year pre-pharm track. If you want to do it in 3 or 4 years, you can take lighter class loads, depending on the program you want to get into.

 

[Rumplestiltazepam]

I was an engineer until the summer after my sophmore year, so I will start there....

Summer after sophmore year I took the General Chemistry series excelerated.

Junior year Fall term: 19 credits
Biology
Ochem
Economics
Math-Matrix and Power series for math minor
Comm

Winter term: 18 credits
Biology
Mass and energy balances
Professional ethics
Ochem II
Contemporary families Bac core

Spring term: 15 credits
Biology
Cell & Molec
Ochem lab
Ethics II

Senior year: 15 credits
Fall term:
Statistics
Ecology
Microbiology
Microbiology lab
Physiology I

Winter term: 19 credits
Sociology
Physiology II
Anatomy
Anthropology
History of Medicine
Genetics

Spring term: 18 credits
Statistics II
Physiology III
Interpersonal Comm
Evolution
Physiology of Insects

Sorry for the long post. You can get solid grades while taking heavy loads and going out on the weekends, just have good time management!

 

[Farmercyst]

Sorry for the long post. You can get solid grades while taking heavy loads and going out on the weekends, just have good time management!

Or you can be like me, procrastinate to death take 13-16 units per/semester quarter and be done in ~8years.😉

Fall 95 14 units, GE's that didn't xfer except for College Algebra, History of Western Civ 1, ENG 101
Fall 96 14 units that didnt' xfer except HWC 2
F 2000 GCHEM 1, Trig, Eng 102
S 2001 GChem 2, Pre-Calc, PE, Music 100
F 2001 OChem 1, Calc 1, Intro to Physics
S 2002 OChem 2, Calc 2, BIO 201 (out of sequence)
Summ 02 Interpersonal Comm, Spanish I, Psych 100
F 2003 Physics I, Macroecon, Speech
S 2003 Physics 2, Pharmacology, Spec Proj in Ochem
Switch to qtrs
F 04 PChem 1, Upper div writing reqt, Spanish II
W 05 PChem 2, GE 1, Political Sci GE
Sp 05 Analytical Chem, Med Chem
F 05 BioChem 1, Humanities GE BIOL 200 at CC
W 06 BioChem 2, Chem Smnr 1, Race & Racism, & US HIST
Sp 06 BioChem 3, Chem Smnr 2,
F06 Cell Phys, Bioinorganic Chem Pharmacy Calcs,A/P1,
Intro to Pharmacy Sys
W07 Molecular Bio, Micro Bio A/P2
Sp 07 Stats.

Not much longer and you'll be able to see my entire PharmCAS app on SDN

 

[Rumplestiltazepam]

Or you can be like me, procrastinate to death take 13-16 units per/semester quarter and be done in ~8years.😉

Fall 95 14 units, GE's that didn't xfer except for College Algebra, History of Western Civ 1, ENG 101
Fall 96 14 units that didnt' xfer except HWC 2
F 2000 GCHEM 1, Trig, Eng 102
S 2001 GChem 2, Pre-Calc, PE, Music 100
F 2001 OChem 1, Calc 1, Intro to Physics
S 2002 OChem 2, Calc 2, BIO 201 (out of sequence)
Summ 02 Interpersonal Comm, Spanish I, Psych 100
F 2003 Physics I, Macroecon, Speech
S 2003 Physics 2, Pharmacology, Spec Proj in Ochem
Switch to qtrs
F 04 PChem 1, Upper div writing reqt, Spanish II
W 05 PChem 2, GE 1, Political Sci GE
Sp 05 Analytical Chem, Med Chem
F 05 BioChem 1, Humanities GE BIOL 200 at CC
W 06 BioChem 2, Chem Smnr 1, Race & Racism, & US HIST
Sp 06 BioChem 3, Chem Smnr 2,
F06 Cell Phys, Bioinorganic Chem Pharmacy Calcs,A/P1,
Intro to Pharmacy Sys
W07 Molecular Bio, Micro Bio A/P2
Sp 07 Stats.

Not much longer and you'll be able to see my entire PharmCAS app on SDN

Physical Chem! ewww I was taking it to finish a chem minor but I dropped it after first week. No way I was taking it if I didn't have to! You suffered through 2 terms of it! hats off to you sir.

 

[Utterdevotion]

Came with 26 IB/AP credits

FRESHMEN:
Fall: 16 credits
Biology I
General Chem I
Philosophy: Contemporary Moral Issues
Intro to Sociology
Scholars (my honors program)
Freshmen Intro class

Spring: 15 credits
Microbiology
General Chem II
Writing Composition
Stat
Scholars

SOPHOMORE:
Fall: 15 credits
Principal of Bio II
Organic Chemistry I
Organic Chemistry Lab I
Calc II
Intro to psyc
Schoalrs

Spring: 15 credits
Genetics
Organic Chemistry II
Organic Chemistry Lab II
Dance!
Women studies: Women, Art, and Culture (...boring class)
Scholars Citation class

JUNIOR
Fall: 16 credits
Communications (i hated the BS work in this class...good thing I got an A)
Micro-economics
Writing for Health Professions (GREAT class)
Physics I
Dance!

Winter: 3 credits (for PIttsburgh....whose rejection letter will probably be coming in the mail soon?)
English Lit: Film Analysis

Spring: 14 credits!
Physics II
Cell biology
History of Religion
History of China 900-1800

As you can see, I didn't have really tough semester (18-19 credit semesters), but I was always busy with staying active in my organizations and getting pharmacy experience. So my 3.8 GPA was still hard to come by.

[And yes I'm leaving w/out a degree! Before this Spring semester of taking random classes, I would have still been a semester early to graduate (aka the Fall my senior year) but oh well...!]

 

[Jack555]

Quarter1-
Bio 121
Statistics
IGE (English)

Quarter 2-
Bio 122
College Algebra
IGE (Humanities)

Quarter 3- (currently in)
Bio 123
College Trigonometry
IGE (humanities)

Summer Quarter- (planned)
Chem 121
Calculus 114 (Calculus 1)

 

[CarrollR]

I spent my first two years of college completing prerequisites for UNC Chapel Hill's pharmacy school (at UNC Chapel Hill). Here's what my last 4 semesters have been like...

Freshman Year - Fall 2005 = 16 hours
Cultural Anthropology + Recitation
Gen Chem I + Gen Chem I Lab
English 11
Medieval History
Intro Statistics

Freshman Year - Spring 2006 = 14 hours
Gen Chem II + Gen Chem II Lab
Great Books II (Literature class)
English 12
Contemporary French II

Sophomore Year - Fall 2006 = 13 hours (a HARD 13 hours..)
Anatomy & Physiology + Lab
Analytical Chemistry + Lab
Organic Chemistry I
Intermediate French I

Sophomore Year - Spring 2007 = 15 hours (almost done...can't wait.)
Organic Chemistry II + Lab
Microbiology + Lab
Introduction to Ethics
General Physics + Lab

 

[lomikhay]

I came in with 20 transfer credits from high school and placed out of a bunch of classes which made things super easy for me (like prin of bio - sweet)

fall 2005:17 credit hours
Gen chem II w/lab
Eng 101
beg golf
medical ethics
stat
Russian 101

spring 2006: 17 credit hours
Anatomy w/lab
ENG 102
Europe 1400-1789
General Physics I w/lab
General Psychology

fall 2006: 19 credit hours
Physiology w/lab
Micro w/lab
Orgo I
Inter French II
Gen Phys II w/ Calc w/lab

spring 2007:
Orgo II w/lab
Microecon
Lit
Calc III
Modern Phy
Modern Phy lab (takes me like 10 hours to write half of a lab report)

Summer 2007:
Soc 101

Yes I have no life but I got into pharm school. we'll see how that ends up

 

[jennyde]

came in with some AP credits so my freshman year wasnt too bad

Fall 05 (13 credits)
Gen Chem 1 w lab
Intro Bio 1 w lab
French 2
Some Intro to College Course

Winter 06 (3 credits) (Delaware has a month long winter session)
Linguistics

Spring 06 (15 credits)
Gen Chem 2 w lab
Intro Bio 2 w lab
French 3
English

Summer 06 (3 credits)
Macroeconomics

Sophomore Year
Fall 06 (17 credits)
Org Chem 1 w lab
Calc Physics 1 w lab
Stat
Art History 1
Intro to Black Studies

Winter 07 (4 Credits)
Calc Physics 2 w lab(this class in a month sucked)

Spring 07 (18 Credits)
Microbio w lab
Org Chem 2 w lab
Calc 2
Art History 2
Appreciation of Music

this year has been pretty tough since I wanted to get my prereqs done so I didn't have to do summer and I could just relax. but overall, its not so bad. i get pretty decent grades and still have time for a social life.😉

 

[Julianne]

I started from scratch 🙂 Went year round but never did more than 15 hours a semester b/c I work(ed) full time and have a family besides...

Summer '04 (15 hours):
Inorganic I/Lab
InorganicII/Lab
Ethics
Psychology
Orientation

Fall '04 (14 hours):
OrganicI/Lab
Precal/Trig
Physics/Lab
Computer

Spring '05 (13 hours):
OrganicII/Lab
Macroeconomics
Speech
Sociology

Summer '05 (13 hours):
BiologyI/Lab
EnglishI
HistoryI
Art

Fall '05 (13 hours):
A&PI/Lab
EnglishII
Microeconomics
Statistics

Spring '06 (15 hours):
BiologyII/Lab
A&PII/Lab
CalculusI
LitI (Dropped)

Fall '06 (13 hours):
Microbiology/Lab
HistoryII
LitI
Genetics

Spring '07 (13 hours):
Biochemistry
Immunology
LitII
Spanish (Dropped)

 

[Insomniac12]

bumping this thread.

I've really wanted to go to ut-austin, I just found out their course requirements.

*extremely gay warning*

http://www.utexas.edu/pharmacy/admissions/crit.html

 

[txpharmD2b]

yeah I go to UT now...and our prereqs are not as hard as other pharm schools. The thing is, it's not all about GPA here... you have to be a well-rounded person. So, get a good GPA, PCAT, and be active in organizations while getting some pharmacy experience and you should be fine 🙂

 

[Insomniac12]

I'm still trying to figure it all out on that site.. one course that stood out to me was microbiology, at the uni. I'm attending this fall, we don't need a microbiology course

first year-fall-17 hours
biology 101(bio. principles 1)
chem 111(general chem 1)
english 101
history
psychology

spring-17 hours
biology 102(bio. principles 2)
chem 112(gen. chemistry 2)
english 102
fine arts (some elective??)
math 122(business calc.)

second year-fall-16 hrs
biology 243(anatomy and physiology 1)
chem 331L(organic chem lab)
chem 333 (organic chem)
econ 224
physics 201
statistics 201

spring-16 hrs
biology 244(anatomy and physiology 2)
chem 332L(organic chem lab 2)
chem 334(organic chem 2)
elective
physics 2