Please respond: A question for prospective pharmacy school applicants

We have operated this forum for several years now and some of our earliest users are almost finished with their schooling. It has been a very enjoyable and rewarding experience.  As many of you know we originally started  by answering questions on SDN and then decided to create our own path where we could help more pharmacy school applicants without their restrictions.

We have come to a crossroads about how best to proceed with our discussion board (see: Pharmacy School Admissions forum).  Currently, we are entertaining the idea of providing additional support to prospective applicants by adding a fee based service.  To this point, we have never requested or accepted any compensation for the many hours devoted to providing advice and guidance and our intent was never to do so.

You may recall that during our first year, we reviewed several hundred personal statements and essays for applicants. I had to cut back after a year or so due to time limitations and an overwhelming number of requests.  I have discussed with several people who could assist me in adding a premium service to this site if the users of the site are interested. The thought is that for some fee, we could essentially walk an applicant through the process, provide support, answer questions, review statements and essays, maybe conduct mock interviews online. The options are really endless. We might be able to offer tiers of service depending on how much help each applicant desired.

There is no question that the process of applying to pharmacy school is time consuming and expensive. Considering that investment, would there be interest from prospective applicants in such a service?  We would try to keep any fees very reasonable, but I also understand that asking other AdComs to assist in providing guidance requires compensating them for their time.

I'd appreciate your input.

-Admissions

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