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Wife's nephew is about to make a terrible college decision
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Date: January 16th, 2026 11:15 AM Author: Bright Bateful Theater he got into a fraud 6 year pharm.d program. they offered him a "$25k scholarship" that they offer probably to everyone. total cost will be north of $300k (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49593665) |
Date: January 16th, 2026 11:18 AM Author: Histrionic immigrant Why is it 6 years? Is it UG+grad school or something?
For academic subjects, 100% of PhDs that the candidate pays for are flame. They should be funded by the school + a stipend (based on the candidate's lab work, research, and/or teaching). Is that not the case with a Pharm.D.?
How is the quality of the school? Would he be doing work with his 6 year, $300k (plus opportunity costs!) investment that he couldn't do with a 2 years my masters in bio or something? |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 11:21 AM Author: Bright Bateful Theater yes, it's an accelerated program. normally to become a pharmacist you need 4 years of undergrad, 4 years of pharmacy school.
it's not really an academic doctorate, more of a professional doctorate like a JD. so you pay for that shit.
school is a TTT but prestige doesn't matter for pharmacy school. and yeah you need a pharm.d to be pharmacist. |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 11:38 AM Author: vermilion bearded partner address out the school
there very much is prestige in pharmacy schools, but the schools at the top of the list would surprise you |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 11:44 AM Author: spectacular indian lodge Isn't it random state schools like Connecticut or Michigan State that are top pharmacy schools? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49593779) |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 11:44 AM Author: Histrionic immigrant There aren't more and better opportunities for grads of better, more selective programs? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49593777) |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 12:01 PM Author: Bright Bateful Theater probably at the margins if you want to teach or something. but if you're standing in a cvs or a hospital pharmacy why would it matter? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49593827) |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 1:39 PM Author: Histrionic immigrant That's what he wants to do? You need a "doctorate" for that? I thought people got a doctorate to make big money researching new drugs for pharma companies or to get sinecures teaching at universities. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49594112) |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 11:22 AM Author: Fishy hell newt i commend the thoughtful tone of your poast, which is all the more impressive given that you seem to not at any point have put any thought whatsoever into the subject matter. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49593681) |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 11:42 AM Author: Histrionic immigrant How much did you pay for your philosophy PhD from Arizona State, friend? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49593769) |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 11:44 AM Author: Fishy hell newt (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49593776) |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 11:56 AM Author: razzmatazz sandwich useless brakes How much was your stipend in law school? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49593816) |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 1:39 PM Author: Histrionic immigrant All the scholarship I could handle and then some (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49594117) |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 11:51 AM Author: razzmatazz sandwich useless brakes (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49593804) |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 11:28 AM Author: floppy school fat ankles Pharm.D. is a "professional" degree like an MD or DDS. They even have an equivalent of "residency" although it's optional. Pharmacists are a cartel which basically have no reason to exist in a world where everything is digitized, but they've never been enough of a drain for anyone to really care about killing the industry. That could certainly change though as their role becomes increasingly trivial.
It's certainly a less secure path than an actual doctor, not something worth investing 300k in (especially given pharmacists obviously do not make as much as doctors). |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 11:43 AM Author: vermilion bearded partner address some make way more than doctors, but most make $100k at CVS and will be working the register (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49593773) |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 11:58 AM Author: Sable persian meetinghouse Gtfo? The fucking register? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49593819) |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 12:02 PM Author: spectacular indian lodge The separate register at the pharmacy, not the front of store registry. 1/2 their job is just having people pick up and pay for shit at the register. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49593830) |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 12:47 PM Author: Arousing Home (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49593929) |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 1:02 PM Author: Wonderful potus space Imagine going to school for all those years, learning hard science and shit, and then having the assistant manager of a shitty CVS explain to you “yeah, we got a mandate from corporate to cut staff and we need to keep Joe up by the self-checkout because our customers are too retarded to use it and bums keep stealing the toothpaste and ice cream, but anyway it turns out you have enough time to fill all the scrips and run the register, so let’s try you doing both without a tech and see how long it takes for you to keel over. No you don’t get a raise this year - that goes to the CEO and the shareholders.” (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49593979) |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 1:40 PM Author: Histrionic immigrant (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49594119) |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 11:43 AM Author: Histrionic immigrant Is Pharm D cr for research and new drug development, as opposed to counting out pills and looking up contraindications? Or is that all done by people with MDs and chemistry PhDs? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49593775) |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 11:53 AM Author: Naked stage keepsake machete Pharm D's are pill pushers, researchers are PhDs, if not both MD and PhD (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49593812) |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 1:40 PM Author: Histrionic immigrant So why would anyone in this day and age cop PharmD? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49594123) |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 11:25 AM Author: Federal tantric locale Pharmacy seems even more fucked long term than other professions. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49593693) |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 11:28 AM Author: doobsian base it should have been taken over by robots 10 years ago, but they're fighting it hard. it's such a terrible job too. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49593706) |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 11:45 AM Author: harsh digit ratio lodge (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49593783) |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 11:46 AM Author: Fishy hell newt could a robot tell me what they did with the fidget spinner display that used to be by the checkout? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49593789) |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 12:01 PM Author: Bright Bateful Theater that's the part that gets me. this kid is so well-mannered, tall as fuck, world is his oyster, and he's about to stand in a cvs for 9 hours a day making 120k being abused by proles day in and day out (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49593825) |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 12:46 PM Author: clear frisky church building corn cake "enjoy your Viagra, my friend"
*sinister Arab smile* |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 1:41 PM Author: Histrionic immigrant Why? What's the upside here? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49594126) |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 12:07 PM Author: vermilion bearded partner address the amount of work that goes into becoming a pharmacist is insane (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49593841) |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 12:51 PM Author: doobsian base it's so unnecessary, 90% of them end up working as quality control drones checking decimal points and overriding computer alerts. alternatively, we should really cut them loose to make low level diagnoses and prescriptions, they're wildly underutilized. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49593939) |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 12:03 PM Author: Primrose party of the first part step-uncle's house He’s your nephew dude (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49593831) |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 12:16 PM Author: Bright Bateful Theater I know, hoping he gets into some decent UCs but don't feel right shitting on his dreams (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49593858) |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 12:24 PM Author: Swashbuckling menage Here is my uneducated take on this: it is almost certainly a cash grab on a very vulnerable segment of the population to try to trap them into 6 years of tuition with poor prospects after graduation.
there are instances in which i could see something like this making sense - if for example, new mexico was short on recruiting family doctors or nurses to live in their state, i could imagine implementing a program whereby essentially trapping a 24 year old into a local practice would make sense for both parties.
i dont know enough about pharm but i assume life will be quite different in 2032. seems like a major red flag to me hermano |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 12:52 PM Author: doobsian base speaking of new mexico, he could move there, become a resident after a year, go to UNM for free, then go work wherever he wants.
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Date: January 16th, 2026 1:55 PM Author: canary apoplectic resort mexican isn't that basically law school?
I got a $60,000 scholly and graduated w/ $250,000 debt |
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Date: January 16th, 2026 10:16 PM Author: crimson liquid oxygen corner But it opened so many doors and you literally learned how to think. That’s priceless (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49595622) |
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Date: January 17th, 2026 2:32 AM Author: canary apoplectic resort mexican I want to sit in a gas chamber with a wooden door (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5822789&forum_id=2Vannesa#49595883) |