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Determining Undergraduate Factors That Predict Academic Success In Pharmacy School, Stephen Polley Jan 2014

Determining Undergraduate Factors That Predict Academic Success In Pharmacy School, Stephen Polley

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Admission into pharmacy school is a very competitive process, and as a result multiple authors have looked at a variety of factors in an effort to create a systematic process that admissions committees can use to identify candidates who are likely to succeed in the rigorous pharmacy curriculum. One of the issues with this approach is that these analyses tend to be very institution-specific. In this paper I hope to identify a mechanism that the University of Kentucky (UK) College of Pharmacy admissions committee can use to efficiently and thoroughly evaluate candidates using scientifically validated factors.

This study uses a …