<p>If you want to attend the orientation early and hope to have the opportunity to pick classes:</p>
<p>I called orientation office today and was told that the class schedule for pharmacy students is pretty much settled. You do not have choices. </p>
<p>You may contact them to confirm this. I hope everyone gets the same message.</p>
<p>Yes, I was made very much aware of this during spring welcome day.
I will be attending the latest orientation date (September) so I’m glad it wouldn’t make a difference to my schedule (though I’m hoping that we might have some flexibility in choosing the time of the class).</p>
<p>I looked at the banner course selection website and most of the biology classes that we have to take start at 8:00am, and some classes do end at 5:50pm at the latest (according to what I’ve seen).</p>
<p>But yes, I believe we’re only allowed one elective this year (in our spring semester), and that is if we don’t have to take precalculus.</p>
<p>sigh thats so depressing…i was hoping to be able to choose later classes… i’m going to teh earliest one</p>
<p>You’ll be stuck in 8am bio. Sucks, but it’s done that way because it’s the only time it fits into pharm student schedules.</p>
<p>If you have AP Chem, Bio, and Calc (with 5s), you get some leniency right?</p>
<p>also, so what kind of elective classes would i be able to take if i have those ones free?</p>
<p>Question about the pharmacy program- is any Bachelor degree given? After how much time and what degree is it?</p>
<p>No bachelor degree is given. You only get the PharmD degree after 6 years of successful completion of the program.</p>
<p>I think someone had said that they were considering making it so you got both a bs and a pharmd degree, but I’m not sure.</p>
<p>sjt, you are correct, the BS in Pharmacy has been approved but not implemented yet. The BS would not be a professional degree and would not entitle you to be a pharmacist. For that you would have to continue on the get the DPharm, which is the national norm.</p>
<p>Didn’t I read somewhere that pharmd students were allowed to walk after 4 years though? I’m not one, so I really don’t know, but I heard that they were allowed to walk at graduation for ceremonial purposes even though it didn’t count… Could be completely wrong though.</p>
<p>yes… you get a bachelors degree in “pharmacy studies” after 5 years. it was implemented this year.</p>
<p>So does that mean that if we survive the program after 5 years, we’ll get a bachelor’s degree, and then the PharmD degree after the 6th year?</p>