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University of Kentucky
College of
Pharmacy
Phyllis Nally, Director of Admissions
College of Pharmacy
725 Rose Street
Lexington, Kentucky 40536-0082
859 - 323 - 5023
E-mail: pnall2@uky.edu
Website: www.mc.uky.edu/pharmacy
| PharmCAS 2009 Application and Transcript Deadline:
January 5, 2009 |
Statistics for 2008 Entering
Class Acceptees *
Number interviewed - 233
Estimated entering class size - 132
Estimated male - 43%
Estimated female - 57%
Number Early Assurance students - 42
Number out-of-state students - 13
* Data as of April, 2008
Application Criteria for 2009 Entering
Class
Expected GPA of accepted students - 3.0 - 4.0
Minimum overall GPA considered - 2.5
Minimum prerequisite GPA considered - 2.5
Minimum composite PCAT considered - 50 percentile
Total number of new entrants expected - 132
Estimated in-state - 119
Estimated out-of-state -13
Accreditation Status: Full
accreditation status
Type of Institution: Public
Participates in Early Decision Program: Yes
Open House Dates::
Saturday, November 1, 10am-Noon, (for college students)
Saturday, November 22, 10am-Noon, (for high school students)
Special Programs: The College offers dual degree options such as the PharmD/Masters in Business Administration, PharmD/Masters in Public Administration, PharmD/Masters in Economics, PharmD/Masters in Public Health and a PharmD/PhD in Pharmaceutical Sciences. The College also plans to add a PharmD/Physician Assistant dual degree program soon. More specific information regarding dual degree options is available on our website.
PREREQUISITES
We require 70 semester hour credits
of college be completed prior to matriculation. Applicants must successfully
complete ALL course prerequisites by the end of the Spring 2009 term.
| English I and II | 6 semester hours | 9 quarter hours
(for 3 quarters of English) |
| General Chemistry and Laboratory | 8 semester hours | 12-15 quarter hours |
| Organic Chemistry and Laboratory | 8 semester hours | 12-15 quarter hours |
| Animal Biology and Laboratory | 4 semester hours | 8-10 quarter hours
(for 2 quarters of Biology) |
| Anatomy | 3 semester hours | 5-6 quarter hours |
| Microbiology and Laboratory | 4 semester hours | 5 quarter hours |
| Calculus* | 4 semester hours | 4 quarters |
| Physics I and II | 8 semester hours | 12-15 quarter hours |
| Microeconomics | 3 semester hours | 3 quarter hours |
| Statistics | 3 semester hours | 3 quarter hours |
| Electives | 19 semester hours | 57 quarters |
Other clarifying information: * Students not prepared
to take calculus may take college algebra and elementary calculus for
6 total hours
INSTITUTION-SPECIFIC ADMISSIONS REQUIREMENTS AND DEADLINES
FOR PHARM. D. DEGREE PROGRAM
2009 ENTERING CLASS
| ALL
APPLICANTS |
REQUIREMENTS
AND DEADLINES
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OTHER
INFORMATION |
| Early
Decision Program application |
September 3, 2008 |
Application and transcript(s)
must be received at PharmCAS by deadline. The pharmacy school
may not consider you for Early Decision status if your references
or other materials arrive after September 3rd.
Decision to admit/deny due from institution by October 24, 2008. |
| Filing
your PharmCAS application references and transcripts |
January 5, 2009 |
PharmCAS application, letters
of reference and all official transcripts must
be received at PharmCAS by this date. |
Supplemental
application
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January 5, 2009 |
Visit our website at
www.mc.uky.edu/
pharmacy/prospective/pharmd/
howtoapply.html
or contact the Office of Admissions for further information. |
| Supplemental
application fee |
January 5, 2009 |
$75.00 |
| PCAT |
Required. Should be taken
prior to January 2009 |
Select PCAT code 104
**Scores from the January 2009 administration will not
be accepted until the next year's admissions cycle.** |
| Oldest
PCAT considered |
5 years |
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| TOEFL
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Required, scores should
be received by January 5, 2009 |
Only for non-US citizens.
Select code 8246 |
| Pharmacy-related
experience |
Not required, but recommended |
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| Proof
of State residency |
Required and preference
is given to State residents |
Residency requirements are
established by the University Registrar. Applicants will be
contacted as appropriate. |
| Non-U.S.
citizens |
Eligible to apply |
Must present TOEFL scores.
US permanent residents, and foreign and Canadian citizens with
accredited transcripts are considered |
| Foreign
transcripts |
Send foreign transcripts
to evaluation service for course-by-course report. Send to PharmCAS
by January 5, 2009 deadline |
Translated by World Education
Services, Inc. (www.WES.org) and Joseph Silney |
Letter(s)
of Reference (recommendations/
evaluations) |
Three (3) letters of reference
should be completed on the Letters of Reference form included
in your PharmCAS application and submitted to PharmCAS by the
institutional deadline of January 5, 2009 |
See the Letters
of Reference page on this website for a list of possible
evaluators.
This institution DOES NOT accept
evaluations from the following:
Family Members |
| Interview
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Required for invited applicants
only |
For more information
on the interview process go to:
http://www.mc.uky.edu/
pharmacy/prospective/pharmd/
interviews.html
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Dates
during which interviews are generally held |
October - March |
Selected candidates for
interviews will be contacted by email with assigned interview
dates |
| ACCEPTED
CANDIDATES |
REQUIREMENTS
AND DEADLINES |
OTHER
INFORMATION |
| Acceptance
letters for regular applicants |
Letters issued from October
through April |
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| Acceptee's
response to acceptance offer |
Twenty (20) days or as
stated in email or letter received by acceptee |
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| Deposit
to hold place in class |
Twenty (20) days or as
stated in email or letter received by acceptee |
$500.00 |
| Date
of new student orientation |
Late May, early June |
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| Date
of first day of classes and/or matriculation |
August 24, 2009 |
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| Requests
for deferred entrance |
Not considered |
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PROGRAM DESCRIPTION
What is now the University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy was established August 16, 1870, as the Louisville College of Pharmacy, an independent institution of higher education. The College was incorporated by an act of the Kentucky General Assembly on February 6, 1873. In 1900, it was admitted to membership in the American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy. At its founding, the College was an outgrowth of the preceptorial system of training pharmacists, a connection which continues today as pharmacy students develop professional skills by practicing with established pharmacists during portions of their study.
Under the leadership of Dean Earl P. Slone, the College became a division of the University of Kentucky in 1947. The College moved to a new building the Lexington Campus in 1957 and became part of the newly developed UK Chandler Medical Center in 1966.
Kenneth B. Roberts became dean of the College in March, 2000. Since that time, the College has more than tripled its endowment funding, total research funding has risen from $4.5 million to almost $14 million and NIH funding has doubled. In 2002, the College received federal funding to establish a Center for Improving Medication-Related Outcomes, which focuses on identifying specific causes of medication-related problems, educating health care professionals in effective management of these problems and improving patient medication use and individual responsibility for their health through consumer education outreach.
The University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy also continues to be an international leader in pharmacy education, clinical care and pharmaceutical research. For more than a century, the College has attracted the best and brightest students from the Commonwealth, the United States and the world to train as pharmacists, pharmaceutical scientists and leaders in academia, health care and industry.
The College ranked as the fifth best pharmacy school in the nation, according to U.S. News and World Report's 2009 Edition of America's Best Graduate Schools. In addition, UK pharmacy students have the highest first-time pass rate on the national licensing exam among all pharmacy programs in the U.S. with a 100 percent pass-rate the past four out of five years. Pharmaceutical sciences faculty members also were ranked fourth out of 354 institutions in scholarly activity including productivity in publications in the 2006-07 Faculty Scholarly Activity index, released by the Chronicle of Higher Education.
The College also broke ground on April 13, 2007 on a new University of Kentucky College of Pharmacy Building that will be the largest academic building in Kentucky and among the largest in the nation. The five-story building, scheduled for completion in 2010, will include state-of-the-art academic and research facilities for educating future pharmacists and pharmaceutical scientists as well as providing laboratory space for faculty's pharmaceutical and clinical research programs. The building will include two 235-seat auditoriums, a 110-seat classroom, a 54-seat classroom, a teaching laboratory with compounding lab and patient assessment rooms, 19 small group/study rooms. The new UK College of Pharmacy building will include innovative research facilities created to foster collaboration among researchers in chemistry, biology and pharmaceutical lab areas.
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