Earn a doctorate in 6 years right out of high school

[Jonathan Whatley]

The Pharm.D. degree requires at least two years of undergraduate study [academic years of prerequisites, i.e. 60 sh] and most student pharmacists complete three or more years of college [90 sh] before starting a pharmacy program.

Then,

The following institutions offer a three-calendar year Pharm.D. degree program to students who have completed all college-level prerequisites for admission. Please contact the institutions directly for more information.

[The list, now 13 schools across the country, includes Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Health Sciences – Worcester and University of Saint Joseph.]

Frequently Asked Questions About Pharmacy Admissions (AACP)

Between the two, there's an accelerated but relatively conventional path to a Pharm.D. in as little as 2+3 calendar years. 3+3 or 2+4 options are that much more conservative but still add up to 6 years.

MCPHS in Worcester, MA, and University of Saint Joseph in West Hartford, CT, are both close to home in Rhode Island! She could also come back home to the four-year program at URI, 2+4.

Also Harvard pre-health people are AWESOME. (He says after manning a table for the Harvard Extension Pre-Health Society tonight. :p )

Has she applied at Brown? An Ivy League education in Providence. She could take prerequisites there and, if her calling was still to pharmacy and she performed solidly in the prerequisites, track into pharmacy school after two or three years.