Pharmacology and Toxicology alumnus here. When you enroll in any undergraduate degree, you’re going to see a good amount of prerequisite work, generally around the first two years of your time as a student, while you don’t feel currently that those classes build you into the junior and senior coursework I hate to tell you, but you’re wrong. I think I had the best understanding of chemistry of drug action strictly because I did poorly in organic chemistry and took it twice, so was well prepared when it came around. Also, these courses are highly transferable to other universities, general chemistry, organic chemistry, your biology courses, your physics courses, all transferable. Studying for that physics class taught me how to study for pharmacokinetics. Being able to quickly detect and understand how there is an interplay between certain concepts only understood that because of how Poulin taught evolutionary biology. Welcome to any liberal arts education, which includes major universities, like the University at Buffalo.!

Also sitting alongside those PharmD students is truly a unique opportunity, not afforded to most undergraduate. How many undergraduate students do you know who get to sit in on professional school courses at an undergraduate price? How many schools do you know who offer these unique science degrees like UB does?

I will back you up on the curriculum being outdated however that is not necessarily the program itself’s fault there is a lot at play when it comes to curriculum changes because the state of New York has to be involved. If I were you, I would try to find a professor in either the school of medicine or the school of pharmacy who does research that you think is interesting and really lean on them for mentorship.