OnLine Advising will cover all of the essential information you need to prepare for your first registration at Cal Poly.

You may access this site at any time and begin at any session. It is highly recommended that you read through and understand all the information prior to beginning your college career.

In order to best use this information, you may want to have the following tools with you:

• a 2007-2009 Cal Poly Catalog (or access it via this Website)
• your SAT I, SAT II, or ACT test scores
• any Advanced Placement (AP) scores you have. Results from the 2008 Advanced Placement tests should be available in early July.

Cal Poly has six undergraduate colleges (listed below), all of which are comprised of several majors. To continue, we must know what college you are in.

If you know your College
If you already know what college you belong to, select it from the following list:

• College of Agriculture, Food, & Environmental Sciences
• College of Architecture & Environmental Design
• Orfalea College of Business
• College of Engineering
• College of Liberal Arts
• College of Science & Mathematics

How to find your College
If you know your major, but are unsure of what college you belong to, we can help you find your college with the following form:

Put your major (or its acronym) in the text box and we'll find what college you belong to.

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It will help to take a quick look at our tutorial to fully understand how to get the most out of OLA.