I want to become a pharmacist!?

Question

I am going to be a student at St. John's University in the fall. I did not consider a major until now because friends and counselors always told me I have time to decide a major/career in college, but I wanted to get a head start. I stumbled upon Pharmacy and that is now the only occupation I am interested in at the moment. I found out a month ago the deadline for pre-pharmacy was in February and I cannot transfer into the program.. I wanted to know can I still become a pharmacist without pre-pharmacy? And if I can what major would lead me to that and help me with the PCAT... plz help if you are a pharmacist... pharmacy student...

Answer 1

You can definitely become a pharmacist without being pre-pharm. You should make sure to take lots of basic science courses, obviously. Organic chemistry, physical chemsitry, microbiology, etc etc. Make sure you have lots of lab experience. Joining a chemistry lab and doing research of your own looks great on a resume. You should get your degree probably in biology or chemistry or something related.

Answer 2

St. John's is a 6 year program. Most programs you have to take 2-4 years of prepharmacy (undergrad) and 4 years of pharmacy.
You don't need to be a stated prePharmacy program. Just look at regular prereqs and take them. These prereqs will help you do well on the PCAT.
You don't have to have a bachelors to get into pharmacy.

Answer 3

sure you can, except for perhaps a course or two. Contact the College of Pharmacy you wish to enter and find out the prereqs you need. Most of it is just a classic hard-science regimen.

Classes you can count on needing just to apply are:

Inorganice and Organic Chemistry with labs
Physics
Biology, Physiology
Math up to and including calculus
and of course all of the 'general ed' courses must be completed.