Denver Area Partner Schools (DAPS) Scholarship

Established through an estate gift from Bill Hemingway, a longtime employee of The Denver Post, the DAPS scholarship award is an automatic consideration award for incoming first-year students from a small group of Denver metro high schools. If you are offered this award, you will hear about it through communication about your financial aid package.

For the Fall 2026 entering class, the DAPS award is $1,000/year for four years. This amount is in addition to any other funding you may have learned about from CU Boulder and CMDI thus far. To find out more information, please contact Shelby Javernick. 

Eligibility requirements

• Attend one of CMDI’s partner high schools (list to be finalized by August 2025)
• Apply (and be admitted) to one of CMDI’s majors
  • Majors include:
    • Communication
    • Environmental Design (Architecture, Environmental Product Design, Landscape Architecture, Planning & Urban Design)
    • Information Science
    • Journalism
    • Media Production (Critical Media Practices)
    • Media Studies
    • Strategic Communication (Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design)
• 3.5 weighted GPA at time of admissions
• Either:
  • 1 year of employment, or
  • 2 years of extracurricular involvement