Tiger sibling dilema - passion vs practicality

tx5athome
Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:54:43 +0000

I agree with why does she have to decide at 18! Way back when (23 years ago), when I was in Pharmacy School 50% of the class had a bachelors degree prior to entering pharmacy school. I think it is even more now. Since the curriculum for pre-Vet and pre-Pharm are so similar, I don’t see why she has to choose now. In my experience, and the experience of a lot of the pharmacists that I work with, the students from the direct admit program (so 2 years pre-pharm) were much weaker in pharmacy school (and some are actually weaker pharmacists) then the ones that had degrees. And a lot of Pharmacy schools are doing 7 or 8 year direct admit programs rather than 6. And yes, I imagine vet school is very hard to get into, but maybe she will change her mind 5 more times in the next couple of years.