Deadlines

View a full list of application deadlines for First-Year and Transfer students.

May 1 at 5:00 pm CDT is the deadline for submitting your commitment deposit and notifying us of your decisions regarding admission, scholarships, financial aid and housing. If you applied Early Decision, your commitment deposit is due the date listed on your admission decision message. See deposit deadlines here. 

While early decision I and early action both provide a quick response to our most interested students, early decision I and II applicants are bound to attend TCU if admitted, and must withdraw applications to any other colleges. Early action students, however, are not obligated to attend, and still have until May 1 to decide whether or not TCU is the right university for them.

Early decision applicants must also submit a CSS/Financial Aid profile if they intend to apply for financial aid if admitted to TCU. 

Students whose first choice is TCU ought to consider applying early decision as this is the surest way to demonstrate your desire to be a TCU student.

This can vary from year to year. We plan to admit students who best fit our community regardless of when or how they apply.

Yes. Students may apply to other colleges while their application to TCU is under review. Once offers of admission are extended, admitted students are required to withdraw applications from other colleges, or decline offers of admission previously extended to them via a rolling application process.

Students admitted under our early decision plan are contractually obligated to attend TCU. If an admitted student backs out of that commitment, he or she may not apply to TCU under any other admission plan.

Yes. Our merit scholarship criteria are the same for all students, regardless of when they submit an application. This includes early decision I applicants interested in our full-tuition Chancellor’s Scholarship.

Because financial aid awards will not be made prior to admission decisions, students who apply early decision (I or II) should have the financial security to commit to TCU.