General Requirements for Application: Early acceptance is available to Honors College students within any major, so long as the requirements for entry to the School of Medicine are met and the student is judged to be an exceptional candidate by the School of Medicine Admissions Committee in the circumstances under which she or he applies.

Students who

• are officially enrolled in the Honors College,
• enter Texas Tech University as incoming first year (students classified as transfer students upon entering TTU are ineligible),
• have earned a composite score of 1360 on the SAT (verbal and math portions only) or a 30 on the ACT upon matriculation from high school (the composite score must be earned in one test administration),
• are Texas residents,
• are U.S. Citizens or Permanent Residents,
• are graduates of a high school in Texas
• submit a “checklist” form to Honors during semester of application, and
• meet all of the following criteria are eligible to apply.

The Texas Tech University/Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center Early Acceptance Program (TTU/TTUHSC EAP) is NOT an accelerated program. Students are required to attend four academic years at Texas Tech University. The Early Acceptance Program does not require applicants to submit an MCAT score for admission to the TTUHSC Medical School. The TTUHSC Medical School Admissions Committee instead relies upon science coursework and GPA to discern a student’s academic capabilities. Therefore, coursework requirements are specific and taken very seriously. Though a student may meet the initial eligibility requirements, if the necessary coursework is not completed by the time of matriculation to the School of Medicine, the student will not be allowed to matriculate.

Students must complete all science courses with a grade of B or better, and have a minimum science GPA of 3.6 and a minimum overall GPA of 3.7. Students that receive a “C” in any of the required science courses may retake the course once to maintain eligibility. All grades (even from courses that have been taken again to improve the grade) will be used in calculating the BCPM GPA and Overall GPA.

Prerequisite Course Requirements

A total of 53 semester hours of prerequisite coursework is required of all students before matriculation to the School of Medicine. This consists of 8 hours of General Chemistry, 8 hours of Organic Chemistry, 8 hours of Introductory Biology, 9 hours of upper-level Biology, and 8 hours of General Physics. Please note that 32 science semester hours (including one semester of Organic Chemistry) and MATH 2300 are needed at the point of application to the Early Acceptance Program.