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hello I'm graduating high school this year and I want to go to University of Kentucky college of pharmacy. would I be able to go to a community college or would I have to go to uk or what? like I want to go to the college near me Hazard Community to get a biology degree so that I can just go on to become a pharmacist. what are the requirements to enter pharmacy school?
You can go to community college, get your requirements done and then go to pharmacy school. Some schools will require a bachelors, some only require an associates.
All schools have different requirements, so you should check with the schools you want to apply to, but here's a list I found from one school Prerequisites Semesters/Quarters Calculus 1/2 Statistics 1/1 General Chemistry w/labs 2/3 Organic Chemistry w/labs 2/3 Physics w/lab 1/2 General Biology w/labs 2/3 Microbiology w/lab 1/1 Mammalian Physiology w/lab 1/1 Molecular or Cell Biology 1/1 Biochemistry 1/1 Psychology or Sociology 1/1 Micro-economics (see below) 1/1
Pharmacists graduating from college today are required to have a PharmD, or doctorate of Pharmacy degree. College students can start a four-year pharmacy program after successfully completing two years of undergraduate coursework and earning a passing score on the PCAT (Pharmacy college admission test). Coursework in pharmacy and pre-pharmacy includes chemistry, physics, biology, anatomy, and physiology.Additionally, PharmD students must complete a series of rotations in a variety of clinical and pharmaceutical settings. The length and quantity of rotations varies, but the average PharmD program requires 7-10 rotaions, each of which is 4-6 weeks in length. If a student knows early in his or her college career that they would like to become a pharmacist, one could graduate with a PharmD in about 6 years. Many college students do not decide until later in college or after college to become a pharmacist; therefore, many pharmacists have completed eight years of college.
http://healthcareers.about.com/od/healthcareerprofiles/p/PharmacistJobs.htm
I don't know how it is for that school but undergrad is usually a biochem major which is lots of calculus and chemistry. also talk to the college councilers
