Mark has decided that a career in Pharmacy is for him. Well at least to start there, teaching chemistry may actually be the path at some point. Below is a picture at Albany Pharmacy and Health Science with a picture of a professor that remembers his cousin Sara! Blow that is St John's which his cousin's husband attended! So many cousins, so many schools!
APHS has a whooping 638 undergrads while St Johns has 16,000 undergrads! That is a huge difference. Not to mention he can stay at home for St.Johns. He did really like APHS, so its still a toss up. Both have similar numbers for passing the Pharmacy board, if I remember correctly St. Johns claims 91% passing, while APHS claims 82%.
He also looked at URI but just on our own wandering the really amazing grounds with a podcast givng us the info. The pharmacy lab was amazing and they had an herb garden for natural remedies. It actually was my favorite, though as I say I am not going to college (though I wish I was) I do not know URI's passing rate for the boards
Our actual fist stop on the Pharm D tour was LIU Brooklyn. This is where Mark was actually sold on the idea of Pharmacy. It is in the heart of downtown brooklyn and is relatively small 4500 undergrads. We were suprised by how much we liked their tiny little, fenced in campus. The students and faculty seemed upbeat. The interior of the pharmacy building was a bit run down honestly and they only have a 65% passing rate for the board, but we feel confident that Mark would be on the right side of that number. The commute would be over or close to an hour which is not so fun. St.Johns is close to where I work and the commute would be about 30 minutes.
So Mark is fortunate in that he is going to apply to 5 colleges in all (SUNY Buffalo will be the 5th)
He could be done applying as early as October wouldn't he be lucky to have that wrapped up early.
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