Pre-Professional Advising

Welcome

Are you obtaining a bachelor's degree at Cal Poly Pomona? Is your long-term goal to obtain a PhD, MD, DDS, or other type of post-baccalaureate degree? If the answers to both are "yes", you are welcome to seek out our Pre-Professional Advising service, which is intended to help guide students in gaining access to professional schools after graduation. 

Dr. Yuanxiang (Ansel) Zhao
Professor and Pre-Professional Advisor

The following services are offered to interested Cal Poly Pomona students with active CPP email accounts:

• Advising on academic prerequisites for professional schools
• Advising on extracurriculum activities (research, internship, volunteer work, leadership role etc.)
• Serving as the liaison between students and any established linkage/pipeline programs with professional schools
• Personal statement and resume review

The advising areas include:

• Environmental Health Specialist
• Medical Technologist (Clinical Lab Scientist)
• Dentistry
• Medicine
• Optometry
• Pharmacy
• Physician Assistant
• Veterinary Medicine
• Other Health Sciences

Each program and each Institution has its own prerequisites. The general admission prerequisites include the following:

• 1 year of English
• 1 year of general biology with laboratory
• 1 year of general (inorganic) chemistry with laboratory
• 1 year of organic chemistry with laboratory
• 1 year of physics with laboratory
• Highly recommended courses include Biochemistry, Genetics, Cell Molecular Biology and Physiology

For one-on-one advising, please visit Dr. Zhao during office hours.