Stanford
Graduate Admissions

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 2025 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)
  • Black in AI
  • BMS BE-STEM Scholars Program (Bristol Myers-Squibb Black Excellence in STEM Scholars Program)
  • Breakthrough San Francisco
  • Breakthrough Silicon Valley
  • Cal-Bridge
  • California State University Sally Casanova Pre-Doctoral Scholarship Program
  • Caltech FUTURE of Physics
  • Charles B. Rangel Graduate Fellowship
  • Científico Latino Graduate Student Mentorship Initiative (GSMI)
  • City Year
  • COMPASS at Michigan
  • Education USA Opportunity Funds Program (OFP)
  • Excel! Scholars Program
  • Gates Millennium Scholarship Program
  • Genentech Foundation MS Scholars
  • Graduate Horizons
  • Howard University Karsh STEM Scholars Program
  • 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
  • MESA 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 Center for Excellence in Education (MCEE)
  • 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 
  • Notre Dame Graduate School Summer Research Opportunities 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) 
  • PhD Project
  • Posse
  • Princeton's Prospective PhD Preview Program 
  • Project 1000
  • 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/IMA Postbac Program
  • Stanford ADVANCE Undergraduate Institute (AUI)
  • Stanford Biology PhD Preview Program (BPP)
  • Stanford CS LINXS Summer Research Program
  • Stanford-CUNY Summer Research Institute in the Humanities
  • Stanford Exposure to Research and Graduate Education (SERGE)
  • Stanford Physics Summer Research Program
  • Stanford REACH (Racial Equity to Advance a Community of Health) Post-Baccalaureate 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
  • 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)
  • Urban Ed Academy (UAE)
  • USAID Donald M. Payne International Development Graduate Fellowship Program
  • VIR BSS (VIR Biotechnology Stem Scholars)
  • Women of Color Project, The

 

Last Updated: November 25, 2024