A good pharmacy school will prepare students for their future careers.
Students looking for the ideal pharmacy school often struggle throughout their undergraduate years to find the best school. There are a multitude of factors to consider, and no rankings list can account for individual preferences. Once a student creates a list, there is the further challenge of determining which schools are likely to accept him based on their admission rates. As with all higher education, students should rely on personal factors over professional ranking systems.
Instructions
1. Locate a reputable list of top pharmacy schools (see Resources). Many of the people who created these lists determine rankings based on price, admission rates and graduation rates, so many of these factors are already taken into consideration for you.
2. Create a list of factors important to you, such as cost, admission rates, location and whether the school has a specialized program, such as clinical or military pharmacy. Make sure to note what your ideal school would have for each category.
3. Create a chart. List each factor across the top and each school down the left. Thus, you can fill in information for each school.
4. Begin sorting through the ranking list using a simple factor from your list. For example, if a school on the West Coast is preferred, schools in California would have a higher rating than schools in New York.
5. Delve into the pharmacy school websites to find information about factors not immediately clear, such as price and available programs. Insert any important information into your chart so you can refer to it in the future.
6. Examine the chart to create your own rankings. Consider those factors most important to you and begin sorting with those. For example, location may be most important to you, then price, then diversity. Therefore, a school in your ideal location with a decent price but low diversity would rank higher than a school with high diversity, a large price tag and located thousands of miles from your intended location.
7. Delete any schools you are not able to attend, whether due to low GPA, test scores, price or another factor.
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