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Caltech Graduate Admissions Fee Waiver

The Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering especially encourages applications from first-generation, low-income, systemically marginalized, and underrepresented groups in science and engineering, including women. Caltech CCE is committed to increasing the diversity of our student body.

Although admissions for our program requires an application fee, this fee should not stand between you and your future degree. If you are considering Caltech graduate programs and need assistance with the application fees, consider applying for a fee waiver.

To request a fee waiver, please complete the online fee waiver form within the graduate application and submit it through the online admissions system.

ELIGIBILITY

Prospective students may request a graduate application fee waiver if they meet one of the criteria below:

  • Have had financial hardship in the past year
  • Have participated in Caltech or diversity-oriented programming (see below)
  • Attended at least one diversity recruiting event (see below)
  • Served as a current or former member of the United States Armed Forces
  • Participated in recruitment events not listed below where Caltech students or faculty have recruited

Caltech-Sponsored Programming

  • Amgen/SURF/WAVE
  • Cal-Bridge
  • Caltech-USC MD/PhD
  • Caltech-UCLA MD/PhD
  • Caltech-Kaiser MD/PhD

Fellowship Programs

  • Emergent Behaviors of Integrated Cellular Systems Research Experience for Undergraduates (EBICS REU)
  • Gates Millennium Scholars Program
  • Leadership Alliance Summer Research Early Identification Program (SR-EIP)
  • Louis Stokes Alliance for Minority Participation (LSAMP)
  • Maximizing Access to Research Careers (MARC)
  • McNair Scholars Program
  • Mellon Mays Minority Undergraduate Fellowship Program (MMUF)
  • Morehouse College Dr. John H. Hopps Jr. Defense Research Scholars Program Hopps (HOPPS)
  • National Association of African American Honors Programs (NAAAHP)
  • Questbridge
  • Research Initiative for Scientific Enhancement Program (RISE)
  • The National Consortium for Graduate Degrees for Minorities in Engineering and Science (GEM)
  • University of Baltimore Maryland County Meyerhoff Scholars Program
  • Woods Hole Partnership Education Program

Events and Conferences

  • ACM Richard Tapia Celebration of Diversity in Computing
  • American Indian Science and Engineering Society (AISES)
  • Annual Biomedical Research Conference for Minority Students (ABRCMS)
  • Annual Ivy Plus Puerto Rico Event
  • Emerging Researchers National Conference in STEM (ERN)
  • FIU McNair Scholars Research Conference
  • MC-STEMP GEM GRAD Lab
  • National Organization for the Professional Advancement of Black Chemists and Chemical Engineers (NOBCChE)
  • National Society of Black Engineers (NSBE)
  • National Society of Black Physicists (NSBP)
  • National Society of Hispanic Physicists (NSHP)
  • Society for the Advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science (SACNAS)
  • Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers (SHPE)
  • Society of Women Engineers (SWE)
  • National Organization of Gay and Lesbian Scientists (NOGLSTP)
  • Out in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math (oSTEM)