Colby Admissions and Financial Aid

Scholar Programs

Presidential Scholars

Colby’s Presidential Scholars Program offers several benefits to the top students in each incoming class: a cohort-based opportunity to engage with Colby’s centers, institutes, and labs, access to a pool of grants to design your own projects, and other opportunities that challenge you to achieve at the highest levels.

Presidential Scholars
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Bunche Scholars

Named in honor of Nobel Prize-winning diplomat and civil rights activist Ralph J. Bunche, the Bunche Scholars Program offers a select group of students access to civic engagement opportunities and community-building resources to support their off-campus experiences and grants for independent scholarship, internships, or humanitarian projects.

Bunche Scholars
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Pulver Science Scholars

The Pulver Science Scholars Program is designed to create a pipeline for the most ambitious and talented students from all backgrounds to pursue research and prepare them to be scientific leaders and innovators. Every Pulver Scholar receives funding to have access to at least one research and one internship experience focused on scientific inquiry and discovery before graduation.

Pulver Science Scholars
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Colby Achievement Program in the Sciences (CAPS)

CAPS is designed for incoming Colby students from groups that traditionally have been underrepresented in the sciences. CAPS provides students with a Colby-funded summer experience, providing hands-on research experiences in biology, chemistry, environmental science, and other natural science disciplines—before the first semester even begins. 

CAPS
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After Colby
Mules Making an Impact

Claire Mepyans ’19

 

Claire was the first Colby student selected for the opportunity to work with researchers at one of the most prestigious cancer care and research centers in the world, Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

Baturay Aydemir ’17

 

Baturay came to Colby with dreams of becoming a doctor. After receiving degrees in neuroscience and chemistry, with a minor in classical civilization, he earned his MD at Harvard Medical School and landed a residency in Emergency Medicine. 

Grace Uwase ’18

 

In her first post-graduate year, Grace performed research in a biomedical research lab at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, studying the bacterium that causes tuberculosis.

Brandon Kim ’18

 

Brandon’s undergraduate research studied the effect of microplastics on microscopic freshwater organisms. He’s now pursuing a Ph.D. in oceanography at the University of Texas Marine Science Institute.