Selected students are offered a conditional acceptance that requires the student to achieve and maintain minimum academic standards thresholds. Students who are unable to maintain a cumulative University of Arizona GPA of 3.6 and/or do not complete Franke Honors Graduation requirements will have their admission to the University of Arizona, College of Medicine- Tucson through HEAP rescinded. These students would be eligible to reapply through the regular UArizona COM-Tucson Admissions pool via AMCAS.
Students must receive a score of 506 or greater on the MCAT to meet the MCAT eligibility requirement
Once all Honors requirements, including the Honors thesis, and a final 360 interview are completed, acceptance will be offered.
No deferrals or gap year will be allowed for HEAP participants.
Students are required to abide by the University of Arizona Student Code of Conduct and that failure to do so may result in cancellation of acceptance and rescission of the offer to join the Honors Early Assurance Program.
Students are required to notify UA COM – Tucson Admissions office if they have been or are convicted of a crime, institutional action, misdemeanor, or felony up to the start of medical school.
Students who are accepted into HEAP must maintain active honors status between their offer to join the program (spring of junior year) and their matriculation into the College of Medicine-Tucson (the summer following their undergraduate graduation). Students accepted into HEAP are unable to pursue Accelerated Master’s Programs due to the impacted graduation timeline. Students pursuing Accelerated Master’s Programs typically graduate from their undergraduate program at the end of the fourth year and are strictly graduate students during their fifth year; graduate students are unable to maintain active honors status
Students should meet with their honors advisor if they plan on making changes to their graduation timeline, including graduating a semester early, to check that their plans fit within the eligibility requirements.
Honors in Veterinary Education (HiVE)
Selected students are offered a conditional acceptance that requires the student to achieve and maintain minimum academic standards thresholds. Students who are unable to maintain a cumulative University of Arizona GPA of 3.4 and/or do not complete Franke Honors Graduation requirements and UA CVM pre-requisites requirements of a C- or better will have their admission to the University of Arizona College of Veterinary Medicine through HiVE rescinded. These students would be eligible to reapply through the regular UACVM Admissions pool via VMCAS.
Once all Honors requirements, including the Honors thesis, and a final 360 interview are completed, acceptance will be offered to the honors students.
No deferrals or gap year will be allowed for HiVE participants
Students are required to abide by the University of Arizona Student Code of Conduct and that failure to do so may result in cancellation of acceptance and rescission of the offer to join the HiVE Program.
Students are required to notify UA CVM Admissions office if they have been or are convicted of a crime, institutional action, misdemeanor, or felony up to the start of veterinary school.
Students who are accepted into HiVE must maintain active honors status between their offer to join the program (spring of junior year) and their matriculation into the College of Veterinary Medicine (the summer following their undergraduate graduation). Students accepted into HiVE are unable to pursue Accelerated Master’s Programs due to the impacted graduation timeline. Students pursuing Accelerated Master’s Programs typically graduate from their undergraduate program at the end of the fourth year and are strictly graduate students during their fifth year; graduate students are unable to maintain active honors status
Students should meet with their honors advisor if they plan on making changes to their graduation timeline, including graduating a semester early, to check that their plans fit within the eligibility requirements.
