Eligible Programs

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

Following are the eligible programs for those applying for 2026 entry:

• American Economic Association (AEA) Summer Training Program
• American Political Science Association (APSA) Diversity Fellowship Program
• AmeriCorps
• Amgen Scholars Program
• Big Ten Academic Alliance Summer Research Opportunities Program (SROP)
• Breakthrough San Francisco
• Breakthrough Silicon Valley
• Cal-Bridge
• California Mini-Corps
• California State University Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholarship Program
• Caltech FUTURE of Physics
• Charles B. Rangel Graduate Fellowship
• City Year
• COMPASS at Michigan
• CSU STEM Pathways Alliance (CSU-SPA)
• Education USA Opportunity Funds Program (OFP)
• Excel! Scholars Program
• ÉXITO
• Genentech Foundation MS Scholars
• George M. Pullman Scholars
• Howard Humanities & Social Sciences Scholars Program
• Howard University Karsh STEM Scholars Program
• Institute for the Recruitment of Teachers (IRT)
• Leadership Alliance, The
• Leadership Enterprise for a Diverse America (LEDA) Scholars Program
• Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC) Scholars Program
• McNair Scholars Program
• Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program
• MESA Program
• Michigan Humanities Emerging Research Scholars Program (MICHHERS)
• MIT Laureates & Leaders
• Moore Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship Program (MURAP) @ Furman University
• NIH Pipeline Programs
  • NIH Intramural Research Training Award (POSTBAC IRTA/CRTA)
  • NIH PREP – Post Baccalaureate Research Education Program
• NSF Computer and Information Science and Engineering Graduate Fellowships (CSGrad4US)
• NSF STC Center for Cellular Construction (CCC) Scholars
• Peace Corps
• Penn State Millennium Scholar
• PhD Excellence Initiative (Economics)
• Posse
• Post-baccalaureate Research Opportunity to Promote Equity in Learning (PROPEL)
• Princeton's Prospective PhD Preview Program
• Public Policy and International Affairs Program (PPIA) Junior Summer Institute (JSI) Fellowship Program
• Questbridge Scholars
• Ralph Bunche Summer Institute
• Research In Color Foundation
• Sarafan ChEM-H Community Development Program
• Sarafan ChEM-H/IMA Postbac Program
• Stanford ADVANCE Undergraduate Institute (AUI)
• Stanford Biology PhD Preview Program (BPP)
• Stanford-CUNY Summer Research Institute in the Humanities
• Stanford Exposure to Research and Graduate Education (SERGE)
• Stanford Medicine Postbaccalaureate Experience in Research
• 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
• Sustainability Undergraduate Research in Geoscience and Engineering (SURGE) Program
• Teach for America
• Thomas R. Pickering Graduate Fellowship
• TRIO Student Support Services (SSS) Program
• Truman Scholars
• UC Berkeley STEM Excellence through Equity and Diversity (SEED)
• UC Merced NSF-CREST Scholars
• UC-HBCU Summer Program
• Undergraduate Research Opportunities Center (UROC)
• University of Maryland Baltimore County Meyerhoff Program
• University of California UC LEADS (Leadership Excellence through Advanced Degrees)
• USAID Donald M. Payne International Development Graduate Fellowship Program

Last Updated: November 25, 2025