Prepharmacy Essay

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Student success during prepharmacy and pharmacy school seems to be more focused on a students success before they enter a professional pharmacy school. Throughout this article I learned that a lot of these students don't get the perfect 4.00 GPA that I was expecting. majority are achieving about a 3.7 GPA, while the minnimum schools require is a 2.00 GPA. Schools take into account course repeats very seriously. Many students that managed to get into pharmacy school still ended up having to repeat courses during their undergrad stage. about 50% of students had to repeat at least 1 course, 30% repeating 2-5 courses. Even though they had to repeat multiple courses to maintain an adequate GPA they still managed to enter pharmacy school and be successful throughout their 4 years. Through reading this I learned not to worry so much about getting into pharmacy school, even though …show more content…

“Relationship of Prepharmacy Repeat Course History to Students’ Early Academic Difficulty in a Pharmacy Curriculum.” American Journal of Pharmaceutical Education, American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, 25 Dec. 2015, eds.a.ebscohost.com/eds/pdfviewer/pdfviewer?vid=6&sid=8106fa79-52a7-42dc-9058-06b44d907f0e%40sessionmgr4009. When pharmacy students finish school and start looking for jobs many employers look for people with previous leadership experience. It seems as though many students have trouble with being a figure of leadership since most of us just cram our faces in books and don't leave much time for a social life. Luckily most schools consider specific volunteer work as an act of leadership, so that helps lift some weight off my shoulders. Overall studies have shown that students have more succes out of school when they represent a leadership figure.
Bailey, Brett J., et al. “Peer Leadership for Pharmacy Students.” American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy, vol. 74, no. 5, 1 Mar. 2017, pp. 282–285. Academic Search Complete, EBSCO,

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