What is EAP?

Loyola University Chicago and Loyola’s Stritch School of Medicine (SSOM) sponsor the Early Assurance Program (EAP), which allows Loyola’s undergraduate students to be considered early for admission to SSOM. Students typically apply to medical school at the end of their junior or senior year. However, students apply to EAP during the fall term of their junior year and may receive conditional acceptance at the Stritch School of Medicine during their junior year. Each year, up to ten students are conditionally accepted into the designated first-year class at SSOM. Certain eligibility criteria must be met both before and after application and acceptance. The application for the EAP is submitted via the Pre-Health application database (PHAD) and is only available when the applications are open for submission.

You can find more information about Stritch School of Medicine here.

To log in and begin the application process click here.

The deadline for the 2026M cycle application is Sunday, November 3rd at 5pm CST.

IMPORTANT UPDATE: The letter of recommendation deadline has changed! Your letter-writers may submit until 11:59pm on Sunday, November 10th. Please note that they will receive an email request to upload letters of recommendation AFTER you have submitted your EAP application through the Pre-Health Applications Database (PHAD). Please communicate this with them.

Please click this link for more information. Please thoroughly review these instructions before starting your application: Stritch Early Assurance Program Overview