Current CAP students

Your responsibilities

CAP students must take their first two years of science studies at Waterloo, and complete the academic requirements for admission to the PharmD program by the end of the winter term of their second academic year. Students are responsible for ensuring that when selecting electives they take all of the courses required for admission to the PharmD program by the end of Year Two.

CAP maintenance requirements

1. Complete each fall and winter term in the first two years of a science degree program, with a full course load of 2.5 units (which includes 5 lecture courses), exclusive of any associated labs.
2. Successfully complete, within the first two years of study, all the courses required for admission to the PharmD program, with a cumulative average of at least 75.0%. A cumulative average of 75.0% must be achieved by the end of 2A in order to qualify for an admission interview and a cumulative average of at least 75.0% must be achieved by the end of 2B to qualify for an admission offer.
3. Successfully complete a minimum of 3 science (BIOL, CHEM, EARTH, MNS, PHYS, SCI, or PHARM) or math (MATH or STAT) courses and 2 elective courses per term.
4. CAP2025: Successfully complete within the first two years of study, a minimum of one, 0.5 unit, course in Health Humanities inclusive of any course with a subject code of HHUM. This course cannot be counted toward the two Social Sciences and Humanities courses per the PharmD prerequisite requirements.

5. Year One Update

   • CAP2024: Complete the CAP Update web form and submit before the specified deadline in early June at the end of 1B. 

   • CAP2025: Meet with your CAP advisor for a mandatory CAP Year One Update check-in appointment and submit your plan to complete all PharmD prerequisites before the end of 2B.

6. Course attempts
    
   • CAP2024: Successfully complete each term with no more than one failed course per term.
   • CAP2025: Successfully complete each term with no more than one failed course per term and no more than two failed courses in total.
7. Maintain, at a minimum, Good academic standing in each term i.e. a cumulative average between 70.0% and 80.0% (Students with an average 1.5% below the minimum requirements for their plan may be placed in Conditional academic standing and are normally given one additional term to attain a better academic standing). 
8. CAP2025: Pay the annual CAP status program fee of $750 by August of each year before 1A and 2A.
9. Continuous involvement and leadership in extracurricular activities in your first two years of university.
10. Provide evidence of completion of at least 200 hours of (paid or volunteer) pharmacy-related experience by submitting the Pharmacy Experience Tracking Sheet by the specified deadline at the beginning of 2B (winter term of Year Two).
11. Complete the Intent to Register web form in Year Two, to confirm your intention to join the PharmD program in Year Three.
12. Achieve satisfactory performance on the Casper test administered online in Year Two.
13.  Achieve satisfactory performance in the PharmD admission interview.