Pharmacy or Pre Med????

nyrocker
Sun, 28 Jan 2018 19:01:52 +0000

So I’m currently a senior in high school. My main focus during the college application process was good undergraduate schools for pre med students. I got accepted to SUNY Buffalo, and they gave me a $20,000 merit-based scholarship to cover non-tuition costs. Since I am a NY resident, I would also get the Excelsior Scholarship, which would cover my total cost of tuition, so SUNY Buffalo is definitely high up on my list. But I also just got my acceptance package from the 6 year PharmD program at St. Johns, and they gave me a scholarship in the amount of full tuition. Here’s my dilemma. Becoming a pharmacist was originally just Plan B. Plan A was always medical school. But now that I’m thinking about it, if I go the pharmacy route, I’ll be able to come out in 6 years and get a job that pays at least $100k. If I go to med school, I’ll come out in 8 years with hundreds of thousands in debt and only a resident’s salary to start paying it off. Pharmacy seems like the obvious option then, but my fear is that if I don’t go to med school I’ll always wonder what would’ve happened if I had. Can anyone help me out?