QUOTE(Hemera @ May 12 2007, 11:23 AM)
i wanna attend ucsf after ucd..you need at least a ba to be accepted right? on their site..there's point something percent of students who's has lower than that though. im so confused o_O
im still debating in my head and with parents because it's quite some time away, will i be able to get in, and will i survive? academically and economically
so..i was wondering if anyone is attending ucsf right now or in the process of going and is at a uc. how's the coursework for you? do you feel like you're being prepared well enough? and just life in general?
a.) No you do not need a bachelor degree to be accepted. Having a bachelor degree will just make your application more competitive. Each year, ucsf accepts a small percentage of students that do not have a bachelor degree into their pharmD program. It just that those students have to be really outstanding. The overwhelming majority have bachelor degrees or higher.
b.) I heard that you have to take some classes with the med students and you are graded on the same scale. Most med students are pretty competitive. They also have other classes that typical pharm students don't take a lot of such as anatomy and clinical physical chemistry.
c.) ucsf pharm school is heavily clinical. If you want to work in retail, then you don't need to go to ucsf, any pharmacy school will do.
e.) ucsf has a high passing rate for the board exams and their students are well respected by everyone.
d.) Once you are end, you are pretty in. They screen very carefully. If they didn't think you could handle the program, then they wouldn't let you into the program in the first place. And most pharm students are not super ultra competitive. People study in groups and have study guides for you. It just time consuming, conceptually, there is nothing that difficult to understand in healthcare. Just overwhelming amount of work.
