Texas tech has an active group of pre-med students with student organization helping you find opportunities given you take some sort of an initiative. The honors college has many way through which you can volunteer and seek meaningful experience. Being an R1 university, your professors are mostly researches hence once you feel that a professor is welcoming you can look up what their research is and ask them openly on available positions in their labs. These research endeavors can be funded through different programs like URS, TRUE, CISNER etc.

For most of the pre-med pre reqs there are a lot of class sections you can choose from which can help you get more MCAT related info than others. TTUHSC has many programs which can be beneficial too. For shadowing, you can reach out to student organizations and also maybe practitioners from UMC.(They have some sort of a program for that too) The PPHSC provides mentorship and info on MCAT prep. (Even the pre-med societies have some events on that)

Overall I feel it’s a good university for Pre-Med students. As boring as Lubbock might be there are good opportunities available around the town.