{"id":28310,"date":"2025-06-18T10:46:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T14:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=28310"},"modified":"2025-06-19T10:27:03","modified_gmt":"2025-06-19T14:27:03","slug":"marshall-university-school-of-physical-therapy-launches-new-pathway-to-admission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2025\/06\/marshall-university-school-of-physical-therapy-launches-new-pathway-to-admission\/","title":{"rendered":"Marshall University School of Physical Therapy launches new pathway to admission"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Marshall University\u2019s School of Physical Therapy is now inviting college juniors to apply for conditional acceptance to the Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program.<\/p>\n<p>This optional pathway allows eligible students to bypass the standard admission process through the Physical Therapist Centralized Application Service (PTCAS), which is typically completed during the senior year.<\/p>\n<p>Instead, students may apply as juniors and, if accepted, receive early, conditional admission to Marshall\u2019s DPT program and receive $3,000 in scholarship assistance during the first year of physical therapy school.<\/p>\n<p>This optional pathway is tailored for high-achieving college students who have excelled academically early in their college journey and wish to selectively pursue their DPT degree at Marshall University.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are thrilled to offer this pathway to high-achieving students,\u201d said Dr. Scott Davis, physical therapy program director. \u201cIt reflects our commitment to helping students reach their professional goals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the Junior Early Assurance Pathway or to apply today, visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/physical-therapy\/physical-therapy-degree-programs\/\">https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/physical-therapy\/physical-therapy-degree-programs\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Marshall University\u2019s School of Physical Therapy is now inviting college juniors to apply for conditional acceptance to the Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) program. This optional pathway allows eligible students to bypass the standard admission process through the Physical Therapist Centralized Application Service (PTCAS), which is typically completed during the senior year. Instead, students may [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":239,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[40,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cohp","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/239"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28310"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28310\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28318,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28310\/revisions\/28318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}