What are other criteria for admission to the PharmD program?
The Pharmacy program, like all professional degrees,is a challenging, intensive curriculum that is often more rigorous than students have previously encountered before in their academic careers. For this reason, the members of the Pharmacy Admissions Committee (PAC) pay particular attention to the quality and rigor of the pre-pharmacy academic record of the applicant. Measures of academic success, such as prerequisite GPA and composite PCAT scores are weighed more heavily than non-academic indicators, although a candidate’s work and volunteer experience and leadership skills are also taken into consideration. PAC considers it essential that applicants have a strong academic record in the sciences in order to be successful in the PharmD program. Credit load per term, difficulty of the courses undertaken each term, and trends in grades are carefully considered by PAC.
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