Eligible Diversity Programs

If you are a participant in good standing in one of the programs listed below, you are eligible for a Diversity Program Participation Waiver.

Following are the eligible programs for those applying for 2023 entry:

• American Economic Association (AEA) Summer Training Program
• American Political Science Association (APSA) Diversity Fellowship Program
• AmeriCorps
• Amgen Scholars Program
• Cal-Bridge Summer Research Program (formerly CAMPARE, California-Arizona Minority Partnership for Astronomy Research and Education)
• California State University Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholarship Program
• Caltech FUTURE of Physics
• City Year
• COMPASS at Michigan
• Education USA Opportunity Funds Program (OFP)
• Excel! Scholars Program
• Gates Millennium Scholarship Program
• GEM Fellowship Program
• Genentech Foundation MS Scholars
• Graduate Horizons
• Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers (IRT)
• Leadership Alliance, The
• Louis Stokes/California Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP/CAMP)
• MARC Scholars Program
• McNair Scholars Program
• Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program 
• Michigan Humanities Emerging Research Scholars Program (MICHHERS) 
• Minority Access to Research Careers (MARC) Scholars Program
• Minority Biomedical Research Support (MBRS)
• MIT Laureates & Leaders
• Moore Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (MURAP) @ Furman University 
• Morehouse College Hopps Scholars Program
• NIH Pipeline Programs
  • NIH BP ENDURE - Enhancing Neuroscience Diversity through Undergraduate Research Education Experiences
  • NIH Bridges to Baccalaureate
  • NIH Bridges to Doctorate
  • NIH BUILD – Building Infrastructure Leading to Diversity
  • NIH IMSD – Initiative to Maximize Student Development
  • NIH Intramural Research Training Award (POSTBAC IRTA/CRTA)
  • NIH PREP – Post Baccalaureate Research Education Program
  • NIH RISE – Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement 
• Peace Corps
• Penn State Millennium Scholar
• PhD Excellence Initiative (Economics) 
• PhD Project
• Posse
• Princeton's Prospective PhD Preview Program 
• Project 1000
• Questbridge Scholars
• Racial Equity to Advance a Community of Health (REACH)
• Ralph Bunche Summer Institute
• San Francisco State Bridge to Doctorate
• Sarafan ChEM-H/IMA Postbac Program
• Stanford ADVANCE Undergraduate Institute
• Stanford-CUNY Summer Research Institute in the Humanities
• Stanford Exposure to Research and Graduate Education (SERGE)
• Stanford Physics Summer Research Program
• Stanford-Spelman Initiative
• Stanford Summer Research Program (SSRP) in the Biosciences
• Summer Immersion Program in Philosophy @ Brown University
• Summer Undergraduate Research Fellowship (SURF) in Engineering
• SURF with Caltech
• Summer Undergraduate Research in Geoscience and Engineering Program (SURGE)
• Teach for America
• TRIO Student Support Services (SSS) Program
• Truman Scholars
• UC-HBCU Summer Program
• UC Merced NSF-CREST Scholars 
• UCSF Post-baccalaureate Research Opportunity to Promote Equity in Learning (PROPEL)
• UNCF STEM Scholars Program
• Undergraduate Research Opportunities Center (UROC)
• University of Maryland Baltimore County Meyerhoff Program
• University of California UC LEADS (Leadership Excellence through Advanced Degrees)
• Women of Color Project, The

Last Updated: November 16, 2022