About Us
Chancellor’s Associates Scholars Program (CASP)
In 2013, Chancellor Pradeep Khosla created a new undergraduate scholarship program, the Chancellor’s Associates Scholars, to recognize and support local, high-achieving, and talented students who:
- Have been admitted to UC San Diego
- Are California residents or AB 540
- Have demonstrated financial need and family incomes of less than $80,000
The Chancellor’s Associates Scholars Program (CASP) was created to accompany the scholarship and to support admitted scholars throughout their time at UC San Diego. The program represents UC San Diego's full commitment to support and develop scholars through graduation; it provides a wide range of services and opportunities to ensure that they thrive as UC San Diego undergraduate students, and are fully engaged in academics, student life, and university experiences.
Our Mission Statement
Through scholarship funding, services and programs, the Chancellor’s Associates Scholarship Program recognizes and supports talented local students with financial need and great potential and motivation to academically succeed at UC San Diego.
Benefits During Scholarship Tenure
- Summer transition program
- Critical thinking seminar course
- Leadership development and communication training opportunities
- Individualized financial aid and academic counseling
- Career and graduate school advising
- Guaranteed university housing assignment/space (provided housing deadlines are met)
- up to 4 years for students who enter as first-year students
- up to 2 years for students who enter as transfer students
- Guaranteed housing confirms placement but not housing costs
- Faculty and peer mentoring
- Priority enrollment, beginning winter quarter of enrollment
- And much more!
The Award
- First-Years: up to $10,000 per year, up to 4 years
- Transfers: up to $10,000 per year, up to 2 years
How To Apply
- Your UC application is also your scholarship consideration pathway (you do not apply separately)
- Visit admissions.ucsd.edu for more information about applying to UC San Diego
- Submit FAFSA/CADAA to be considered, selection is based on financial need (SAI and eligibility criteria)
- For additional information on eligibility, please visit the Financial Aid & Scholarship Office website
Eligibility and final determination is administered by Enrollment Management via the Financial Aid & Scholarships office.
Student Retention & Success
CASP is part of Student Retention and Success, within the Division of Organizational Transformation.
Campus Partners
The Chancellor’s Associates Scholars Program resides in Student Retention and Success and relies on the partnership and support of several campus partners, including:
- Academic Enrichment Programs
- Basic Needs Hub
- Center for Student Involvement (CSI)
- Campus Community Centers
- Financial Aid & Scholarships Office
- Housing*Dining*Hospitality
- Office of Academic Support and Instructional Services (OASIS)
- Student Veteran's Resource Center
- Undergraduate Admissions
- Undocumented Student Services Center
- The retention program also works closely with campus partners in the Eight Undergraduate Colleges; the Division of Student Affairs and Campus Life; and the Jacobs School of Engineering.
School & Community Partners
UC San Diego is committed to our local community and to the promotion of diversity, equity, and inclusion. With the support of donors and the university, these scholarships will strengthen efforts to enroll highly qualified local students who will become future leaders and innovators in the region and state. The program serves a select number of eligible admitted students from local high schools who have been designated by the state as an LCFF+ school, and/or have a free/reduced lunch (FRL) percentage of at least 70%. In addition, the program also serves a select number of eligible students from all 9 Region X California Community Colleges.
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