Vertex Foundation Scholarship
Direct application
$5,000
Eligibility
Education level
Undergraduate
About this scholarship
Legal residents of the United States or Canada who are full-time or part-time students in good academic standing at an accredited college or graduate school may apply if they have been diagnosed with cystic fibrosis or are an immediate family member of someone with CF (siblings, caregivers, or children).
The Vertex Foundation awards $5,000 in USD or CAD to help offset the cost of a two-year, three-year, four-year, or graduate degree. Students may reapply in future cycles.
Apply through the Vertex Foundation scholarship program when the application opens.
Essay questions
What else to submit
- Application
- Two applicant-written essays
- Current complete official transcript
- Online recommendation form
- Two essays written by the applicant (explicitly must NOT be written by AI software)
- Current, complete official transcript of grades (not grade reports) showing student name, school name, grades, credit hours per course, and term information
- One online recommendation form submitted by the recommender (due a few business days after the application deadline)
- Eligibility: person diagnosed with cystic fibrosis, or their sibling or caregiver
- Eligibility: legal resident of the United States or Canada in good academic standing (not on academic probation)
- Eligibility: enrolled part-time or full-time as a first-, second-, third-, fourth-year, or graduate post-secondary student
- Essays must not be written using AI software.
- Students may reapply in future cycles.