Applications

First-time Freshman Application

Direct Admission Pathway

Due to current accreditation requirements, the Respiratory Therapy program can admit no more than sixteen students per cohort per year. Because of this, the application process for first-time freshmen differs from most freshmen application processes. 

First-time freshman applicants are eligible to apply to the Respiratory Therapy program to receive direct admission into the program via the WVU freshman application. When students apply as first-time freshmen to the program, they are first admitted to the Healthcare Pathway program in the Center for Learning, Advising, and Student Success (CLASS). Students remain in the Healthcare Pathway program until they pay the university's academic deposit. After the academic deposit has been paid, students with a high school GPA of 2.75 or higher will have their major changed to Respiratory Therapy. 

Once the Respiratory Therapy program reaches sixteen students who have paid their academic deposit and met the GPA requirement, any additional students who applied to the program and met the requirements will be added to a waitlist. Students will move up from the waitlist in the order in which they submitted their academic deposit. Students will only move off the waitlist if a student among the first sixteen deposits changes their major or withdraws their WVU application before the start of fall classes. Once the fall semester begins, any student interested in pursuing Respiratory Therapy who was not admitted through the direct admission pathway must apply via the indirect admission pathway during the spring semester of their sophomore year. 

Current WVU Student and Transfer Student Application

Indirect Admission Pathway

Current WVU undergraduate students and external transfer students from 2- or 4-year institutions are eligible to apply for Fall admission into the professional phase of the Respiratory Therapy program. All applicants — internal or external — must apply through the WVU application. The application opens on December 1 of each year and admits students at the end of the spring semester for a fall semester start. 

Visit our admissions page to see the step-by-step process for applying to Respiratory Therapy via the indirect pathway.

Contact Us

Questions? Contact Timmy Eads, Assistant Director of Undergraduate Enrollment Management.