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The Top 10 Pharmacy Schools Rankings in the US and The 4 Tips To Get Into Them


There are many reasons why a pre-pharmacy student may choose to apply to a certain pharmacy school. These factors may include things such as location, curriculum, weather, class size and etc. However, there is one criterion that is often overlooked by most students. This method requires little effort and is based on something that most of us use everyday. Many students do not choose schools by their Google PageRank. The Google search engine is hard at work everyday. It is the #1 search engine in the United States. Why not use its searching powers to your advantage by using one of their tools? This tool is the Google PageRank.

What is Google PageRank? To keep it short and simple, it is basically how the Google search engine grades the importance of a particular website. And as of this writing, the highest page ranked pharmacy school in the Google Directory, under "School of Pharmacy", is the University of California, San Francisco. Below are the top 10 pharmacy schools according to Google PageRank.

1) University of California, San Francisco

2) Purdue University

3) University of Cincinnati

4) University of North Carolina

5) University of Kentucky

6) University of Minnesota - Twin Cities

7) Ferris State University

8) University of Tennessee

9) University of Oklahoma

10) Idaho State University

Why not select your schools according to this ranking? If an interviewer ask, why you chose to apply to their pharmacy school, you can always say something like "I applied to your pharmacy school because it is highly ranked according to the Google PageRank system." Be unique and you never know if this answer or one that you create yourself can get you into pharmacy school.

Now the 4 tips to getting into these top ten pharmacy schools in the US are:

1) Apply Early.

2) If research is necessarily for acceptance, make sure that you begin your research project early, preferably in your 1st or 2nd year of college.

3) Ace your PCAT

4) Become a great story teller.