And the results are in... Texas Tech outranks UT as well.

I'm sorry but I am not going to use RANK as a criteria in deciding which pharmacy school I'm going to attend.

Texas Tech offered a very detailed overview of the school, which I really liked. They were the only school that offered a formal powerpoint presentation that gave the applicants a concrete illustration of how the school worked - and I thought that that was very professional. Also all the classrooms were new and up to date, technology is great there (which I love), for example they need every student to be running with their own laptop with windows xp pro with microsoft office suite, etc.etc. So nobody will ask me to borrow my laptop and everyone will be up to date. Now, that I LIKEY.

The day went well except I had a really hard interviewer. I think he was straight from China, so he had really high expectations. You know how dem' Chineeees are! He asked about my MATH skills (what does that REALLy matter in pharmacy compared to all the other stuff you have to learn) and how I did in HIGH SCHOOL, and why I didn't do better, and he just seemed very cold and belittling. But of course, what can you expect from an Asian? Especially the FOB ones that made it big here..

Other than that the group exercise was actually FUN (unlike UH) and I think our group did well; I think I did bad on the essay because I started falling asleep at that point, but oh well. The skillls test was weird, it was like If the kadoodle is a boodle and the boodle is a lickdoodle, what is a dog? And then it had answer choices for you to choose from.

All the applicants were really nice too, and since the P1/P2 studnets weren't there it gave us applicants a chance to mingle amongst ourselves and get to know each other (which helped for the group part).

So in conclusion, Texas Tech's interview process impressed me the most out of all the schools. Here's is my final ranking of choices based on interviews, location of school, how impressive they are and how bad i want to go to them:

1. University of Houston
2. Texas Tech University
3. UT Austin

If only Texas Tech was located in a better, bigger city like Dallas or San Antonio - I would then definitely put it as Number 1 out of all of them. The location is a big downer though so I have to put it after Houston. Houston is a great combo of friendly students and location. And finally, UT did not try to appeal to me at all and because of that it made them seem snobby like "why should we even try to convince applicants to want to come here? everyone wants to come here cuz we're number 2".

And this is coming from a longhorn so...that's pretty sad IMO.