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