Pre-Health Professions Advisement

The office for Pre-Health Professions Advisement (PHPA) provides valuable assistance as you work towards your career goal of enrolling in a health professional school. PHPA offers guidance to students preparing for admission to professional schools of medicine (MD & DO), dentistry, physician assistant, veterinary, chiropractic, pharmacy, optometry, podiatry, physical therapy, and several more.

Services Provided 

• Assist in setting up a timeline for the application process
• Identify requirements for application and admission to various programs
• Advisement with recommended and required courses
• Collection of letters of recommendation
• Assistance with personal-statement writing
• Career counseling
• Interview preparation
• Workshops to provide comprehensive guidance throughout the application process
• Assistance with test preparation services
• Exposure to professional school recruiters

Availability & Requirement for PHPA

• Must be a matriculated Farmingdale State College student in any undergraduate curriculum (Bioscience, Science Technology & Society [STS], Health Sciences, etc.)
• Post-baccalaureate students enrolled in the Sciences for the Health Professions Certificate
• Recent alumni of Farmingdale State College

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Farmingdale State College is joining other leading universities that have also shifted away from committee letters to provide more comprehensive support to students in their application process by helping them promote their academic and professional strengths to be the most competitive applicant they can be.

Our advisors will assist students in identifying recommenders who know them well and have closely observed their strengths.

The PHPA Office will continue to collect and store letters of recommendation, along with an opportunity to receive a cover letter.

Please Note: If your schools of interest reference a committee letter, this only applies to undergraduate institutions offering this service. Since this will no longer be the case for Farmingdale State College for the 2025 cycle and later, it will not negatively impact your application when you do not have a committee letter.