MPharm

hey,
my cuz has got offers for MPharm from:
London School of Pharmacy
Portsmouth
Medway school of pharmacy
Kings
Hertfordshire
De Montfort

she never thought she'd be in this position so she never thought about who to pick and now she is and is confused.

What would you lot pick as you first and second choice?

Reply 1

Scipio

First: King's
Second: LSOP
Last: De Montfort (avoid at all costs)

Might want to post this in the Pharmacy sub-forum aswell, for more opinions.

Reply 2

Anujkhamar

there's a pharmacy subforum?!

Reply 3

Mellanie

Why avoid De Montfort? I was thinking of using it as my insurance because of their low offer of BBC - compared with BBB and ABB for other uni's!

Reply 4

papad

De montford is not good, its ranked at about 100th out of all unis in Britain

Reply 5

Random.Girl

papad

De montford is not good, its ranked at about 100th out of all unis in Britain

But it's still gonna have a better reputation at pharmacy than Herts or Medway cos they're new. Some of the pharmacists I've met who are pretty high up did their degree at De Montford.

Reply 6

Scipio

De Montfort's Pharmacy course was/is under review by the The Royal Pharmaceutical Society (I think that's the proper name?) meaning there is a possibility that if it is deemed to be below standard, all those studying there would come out with a worthless degree.

Reply 7

Xenon

London School of Pharmacy
Portsmouth
Medway school of pharmacy
Kings
Hertfordshire
De Montfort

I've not heard about the ones which aren't in bold so I am assuming that even de montford would be better than the other 2.

Reply 8

sita

Portsmouth first, but i'm probably biased. :smile:

Reply 9

Mellanie

lol portsmouth would never be first, second at most because either kings or lsop would have to be first...

Reply 10

Kingspharm

Zaara786

lol portsmouth would never be first, second at most because either kings or lsop would have to be first...

When I applied, I put Kings first (BBB) and Portsmouth second (BBC).

Reply 11

ajcool

Kingspharm

When I applied, I put Kings first (BBB) and Portsmouth second (BBC).

Im thinking of putting kings firm with my offer of BBB, but if i get BBC do you think kings will accept me?

Reply 12

Xenon

Kings I have heard are a bit iffy when it comes to accepting people with even one less grade.

Reply 13

Kingspharm

I suspect it depends on how many other people get their offers - we have some real morons in our year because they missed their grades but because so many people did, they took them anyway because the university already knew them (rather than taking people through clearing).

No guarantee though - so have an insurance that you would actually want to go to as well!

Reply 14

phlump

Xenon

yea, i haven't heard of Hertfordshire doing pharmacy either until i went looking up on unis. But suprisingly, they actually ask for pretty high grades:

http://nestor.herts.ac.uk/uhinfo/schools/pharmacy/pharmacy_courseinfo.cfm

320 points! :eek: