Pre-Professional Advising
Due to the personalized nature of the educational experience at Kansas Wesleyan University, our undergraduate liberal arts curriculum offers excellent preparation for many graduate or professional schools. Pre-professional advising prepares students to attend law school, medical school, dentistry school or numerous other post-graduate programs. A variety of different majors and classes can satisfy graduate or professional school requirements. Students interested in continuing their studies further and seeking entrance into graduate school must work closely with their advisor to tailor course work to the school they wish to attend. To graduate from KWU, a student pursuing entrance into graduate or professional school must choose a major listed here.
Pre-professional advising is available in the following areas:
- Pre-Athletic Training
- Pre-Dentistry
- Pre-Engineering
- Pre-Law (see below)
- Pre-Medical
- Pre-Optometry
- Pre-Physical Therapy
- Pre-Podiatry
- Pre-Theology
If you have questions about these possibilities, please contact your admissions counselor, your advisor or a student success coach today!
Pre-Law
The American Bar Association website recommends that students who are considering the law as a career should chose a major (double major, major and two minors) in whatever most interests them, taking advantage of opportunities to develop research and writing skills, and realize that law schools accept candidates from almost every academic discipline. The best preparation for legal training, according to the American Bar Association, is “taking a broad range of difficult courses from demanding instructors” (www.abanet.org/legaled/prelaw/prep.html). Students should endeavor to develop problem solving, critical reading, writing and editing, oral, communication, listening skills, research, organization and management, public service and promotion of justice, relationship-building and collaboration, background knowledge and exposure to the law, and should seek educational, extra-curricular and life experiences to help develop these attributes.
