200k in Debt for Pharmacy?

ikutatomaluv
Sun, 16 Jan 2011 01:59:51 +0000

About interviews:


I am a current NU pharmacy freshman student, and I have personally gotten to know several 2nd and 3rd pharmacy students. What they tell me about the interview is that MOST people pass the interview unless: 1) you absolutely don’t know the responsibilities of a pharmacist (you will be taught this spring semester of freshman year), 2) you don’t give a valid reason for pursuing pharmacy (e.g b/c of the money) or 3) you are extremely unable to communicate effectively with the interviewer (out of 130ish students in the current 3rd year, around 5-10 didn’t pass the interview)
for pacific, I heard stories where people with the appropriate gpa were STILL unable to enter the pharmacy school because the administration typically admit more prepharm than they can admit in the actual pharmacy school (eg. 300 in prepharm reduced to 150 in pharmacy school), whereas NU admit ONLY the amount of students that they are willing to admit in the pharmacy school.


However, from what I hear from 3rd year NU pharmacy students, most people start dropping out either after the 2nd year coop (where they realize that pharmacy is not for them) or during the 3rd-4th years (where most people start getting low gpa’s).