<p>My ideal goal is to get accepted into the 0-6 pharmacy program at Rutgers…</p>
<p>However, I heard its REALLY HARD to get into…</p>
<p>Thus, in case i do not get accepted 0-6, I created a backup plan:</p>
<p>I will do bachelor’s in chem eng…take the pcat…and apply for pharm school again…</p>
<p>However, I have one problem. Although chem eng’s curriculum has many of the pharmacy prereqs…it doesn’t have all of them…</p>
<p>There are 2-3 it doesn’t have…</p>
<p>Is it possible to go to take these courses…regardless…even though they are not part of your major…</p>
<p>I know in High School…You can only take 8 courses a year…is it like that in college…or can you take more than what the curriculum says??? I’m guessing it would be more money???</p>
<p>Sorry if I am asking a dumb question…It’s just that I am a bit confused about this…</p>
<p>Of course you can take electives. However, ChemE probably will give you the least space to do them, without spending additional semesters in school.</p>
<p>You’ll have a much easier time keeping a higher GPA in a natural science over engineering, so only do engineering if you can really see yourself doing it in the future. If you’re trying to back door into p-school, just do a natural science. Your chances will be way way better. And it’s not like a degree in bio and/or chem isn’t marketable…</p>
<p>Engineering has very little space for electives, and even then they are sometimes prescribed (HAHA- pharmacy pun!) as being humanities or social sciences classes or specific technical electives. If your goal is pharm prerequisites, I’d go with chem or bio.</p>
<p>I think you should try looking into schools where they automatically let you into the pharmacy program.</p>
<p>For example-- The University of Sciences in Philadelphia <a href=“the%20first%20pharm%20college%20in%20the%20US”>USP</a></p>
<p>the program is 6 years long: 2 years of pre-pharm (sort of like an undergrad chem or bio, except just 1/2 of that)
after that, 4 years of pharmacy school.</p>
<p>Once a student is accepted into the pre-pharm track from H.S., he/she would automatically enter the pharm school (though the gpa has to be like 3 or something, check in their website).</p>
<p>the good thing about this is you don’t have to worry about PCAT or any other admissions stuff.</p>
<p>“If you can’t get into pharmacy consider being a dentist or a doctor as a fall back.”</p>
<p>if one can’t get into a pharm program, then getting into med/dental school is sort of impossible</p>
<p>Yes, I agree with that. Additionally, I am not interested in becoming a doctor or a dentist…</p>
<p>I am interested in doing either pharmacy or chem eng…but I PREFER to do pharmacy…chem eng is just something I could do as a backup…in case i have no other option…</p>
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<p>Yes, I am applying to those.
I applied/plan to apply to ones at:
Rutgers
Long Island University
St. Johns
St. Peters (Joint program wit rutgers)
Farleigh Dickinson (Joint program with some college in Virginia…lol)
Montclair State (Joint with Rutgers)</p>
<p>Might apply to:
Temple Univ.
Univ. of Sciences in Philidelphia…</p>
<p>The reason I am asking questions about transferring in is because I want to have a backup…in case my SAT scores bring me down…</p>
<p>On the SAT, my highest score was only a 1940 (570 CR, 680 M, 690 W)</p>
<p>My GPA is a 4.0…so that shouldn’t bring me down…</p>
<p>So, I want to be ready with a backup, in case I do not get accepted into any 0-6 programs…</p>
<p>In other words, I am planning for a backup that would work even in the worst situation…</p>
<p>Honestly, I think you need to think about how much you would like going engineering and how much the difference that is between pharm (your 1st choice) and your second choice.</p>
<p>If you really see yourself getting into engineering, do it.</p>
<p>For ChemE::
Great exit opps, but there is a much bigger chance that you will need them (because of lower GPA)</p>
<p>For Bio/Chem:
Not as good exit opps, but they are still pretty nice. You’ll have a much greater chance of getting into pharm though.</p>
<p>Also, grad schools and most future employers won’t really care about your SAT or anything. They care more about PCATs, GRE,…etc and your college GPA. I’m pretty sure that’s what it basically boils down to. Also, ChemE (although the name may say more otherwise) is a lot more like physics (at least this is what I’ve heard from some seniors in ChemE) than actual chemistry. Just FYI</p>
<p>I hear that people are pretty burned out after four years of a chemE major. It’s a good major if you’re interested in Pharmacy, but chemistry will leave you with more room for those electives you want to take.</p>
<p>Pharmacist are glorified bean counters. Of course, some mix cocktails and others do need to have knowledge about interactions of medicines, but for the most part they just count the pills.</p>
<p>No, that is not what a pharmacist does. Without going into detail, pharmacists can work in:
Retail chain
Business owner/self-employed retail pharmacy
Community or University hospital
Mental health facility
Research
Long Term Care
Home Infusion Services
Health care management
Public health
Nuclear pharmacy
Pharmaceutical sales
New drug development and testing for manufacturers
Poison Centers
Clinical pharmacy (extensive field including rounding, formulary selection, detailed inpatient monitoring, counseling, etc)
…and probably other areas I forgot to mention. Salaries are very good, employment is steady and schedules are flexible. It is competitive to get into pharmacy schools though, so you will need good grades and tests.</p>
<p>Check it out chaoses, because Japher is just dead wrong. “Pill counting” is done by robots or technicians.</p>
<p>Yeah, you can work in those places… counting pills. :)</p>
<p>Sorry if you find that offensive, but I am somewhat offended that you would consider being a ChemE as a back up to something as seemingly mindless as a pharmacist.</p>
<p>No offense, I know several very smart pharmacist.</p>