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 2024 entering class, the DAPS award is $3,000/year for four years. This amount is in addition to any other funding you may have learned about from CU Boulder and CMCI thus far. To find out more information, please contact Shelby Javernick. 

Eligibility requirements

• Attend one of CMCI’s partner high schools
• Apply (and be admitted) to one of CMCI’s 6 majors
  • Majors include: 

    • Strategic Communication (Advertising, Public Relations and Media Design)

    • Media Studies

    • Media Production (Critical Media Practices)

    • Journalism 

    • Information Science

    • Communication

• 3.5 weighted GPA at time of admissions

• Either:

  • 1 year of employment, or

  • 2 years of extracurricular involvement