A small campus, devoted faculty, and one unforgettable patient encounter are shaping the pharmacist Jordan Cook ’26 is becoming.
For Jordan Cook, the path to pharmacy school started with a single shadowing experience in a trauma unit. Seeing firsthand the clinical scope of a pharmacist’s role, far broader than what most people imagine, she arrived at college already knowing where she was headed.
When it came time to choose a pharmacy school, Ï㽶Ðã checked every box. Jordan enrolled through Ï㽶Ðã’s two-year + four-year program, spending her first two years as an undergrad at Ï㽶Ðã before transitioning into the Ï㽶Ðã School of Pharmacy for a PharmD. From the moment she arrived on campus, she felt it: the small, beautiful grounds, the familiar faces, the sense that everyone around her was genuinely invested in her success. The faculty, she says, were a deciding factor. “Every professor I’ve ever had has been very intentional with making sure I have the resources I need — answering questions and being available, even if it’s a little later than 5 p.m.” It’s the kind of environment that’s hard to put a name to, but Jordan doesn’t hesitate: “Very homey and family-like.”
If you’re looking for a small campus that feels homey, where you’re going to feel very supported through all of your endeavors,” she says, “I would recommend Ï㽶Ðã.
Jordan Cook, ’26
It didn’t hurt that Ï㽶Ðã’s pharmacy program boasts the highest pass rate in the state — a detail that mattered deeply to Jordan. She wanted to know she was being educated not just to her school’s standards, but to national ones.
Jordan has rotated through settings that have both challenged and shaped her. During a retail rotation, she experienced one of her most meaningful moments to date. While counseling a patient on a cough medicine, she realized partway through that he was a Spanish speaker who couldn’t read the label. She read it to him without a second thought. His gratitude stopped her in her tracks. “It never crossed my mind that it would make that big of a deal to him,” she says, “but it really touched me.” It was a quiet reminder that the impact of a pharmacist often lives in the smallest gestures.
Those moments, big and small, are what keep her focused on the finish line. After her final year, Jordan plans to complete a residency to deepen her clinical training — and her ultimate goal is exactly what it’s been since high school: a position on a trauma unit team, where she can bring everything she’s learned at Ï㽶Ðã, and everything she’ll gain in residency, to the patients who need it most.
For anyone weighing pharmacy school options, Jordan’s advice is simple. “If you’re looking for a small campus that feels homey, where you’re going to feel very supported through all of your endeavors,” she says, “I would recommend Ï㽶Ðã.”
