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Article: Pharmacy schools getting more competitive and exclusive
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- Drug Topics
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- June 16, 2008
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Pharmacy school is not what it used to be: it's more competitive, more expensive, and more difficult to get into. And it seems unlikely that will change any time soon.
According to data compiled by the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy, more than 95,000 applications were received for the 2007 school year. Unfortunately for most of those applicants, there were only 11,557 places available. At the Arnold & Marie Schwartz College of Pharmacy & Health Sciences, Long Island University, for example, there are an average 10 students applying for each spot available.
"The last five to seven years have seen a progressively growing pool of well-qualified applicants to all the ...