IU Simon Comprehensive Cancer Center 2025 Grad/Undergraduate Summer Programs Application

Official LAST NAME.

Please provide your LAST NAME as it appears on your social security card, or other similar official documents. If your last name is more than one word, please include it as it appears on your official documents

Official FIRST & MIDDLE NAMES.

Please provide your first and middle names the way they appear on your social security card, or other similar official documents.

What is your preferred email where we can write you to follow up on your application?  

Note: This is the email where you will receive confirmations and follow up links for your application

Please provide an alternate email in case we cannot contact you via your preferred email for any reason.

Because institutional email addresses such as those belonging to universities or high schools sometimes employ a firewall which blocks email external to the institution, we ask that your alternate email be from a non-institutional provider such as gmail or yahoo.

Race

Please check all that apply

Are you an individual with disabilities, who are defined as those with a physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more major life activities, as described in the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, as amended? (ADA information: https://www.ada.gov/law-and-regs/ada/)

Were you previously or are you currently homeless, as defined by the McKinney-Vento Homeless Assistance Act?

(Definition: https://nche.ed.gov/mckinney-vento/)

Were you previously in the foster care system, as defined by the Administration for Children and Families?

(Definition: https://www.acf.hhs.gov/cb/focus-areas/foster-care)

Were you eligible for the Federal Free and Reduced Lunch Program for two or more years?

(Definition: https://www.fns.usda.gov/school-meals/income-eligibility-guidelines)

Are you a first generation college student?

(Definition: https://nces.ed.gov/pubs2018/2018009.pdf)

Were you previously or currently eligible for Federal Pell grants?

(Definition: https://studentaid.gov/understand-aid/types/grants/pell)

Have you received support from the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants and Children (WIC) as a parent or child?

(Definition: https://www.fns.usda.gov/wic/wic-eligibility-requirements).

Did you grow up in a U.S. rural area, as designated by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) Rural Health Grants Eligibility Analyzer?

To answer, please type your address into this link, and click search. Report the answer provided. (https://data.hrsa.gov/tools/rural-health)

Is the zipcode where you grew up listed on the Medicare and Medicaid Services designated low-income and Health Professional Shortage Area?

To answer the following question, please click and download this Excel File. (https://www.qhpcertification.cms.gov/s/LowIncomeandHPSAZipCodeListingPY2020.xlsx?v=1)

Do you believe that there are other factors not contained with the NIH's definition of Populations Underrepresented in Science that you feel would classify you as Under-Represented in Medicine and Biomedical Sciences?

Please explain why you believe your circumstances or background qualify you as belonging to a population Underrepresented in Science

Which option best describes your current educational level:

Please note: This application is only for High School seniors and Undergraduate students who are Freshmen, Sophomores, or Juniors. If you are currently a high school junior, please complete the IUSCCC High School Summer Program application instead. If you are currently a 1st-year medical student, please complete the IMPRS application.

From which high school did you graduate?

Please provide name of high school and address

Which high school are you currently attending?

Please provide name of high school and address

What is your cumulative GPA ?

Note: Your GPA information will not be used for evaluating your application.

Please upload your unofficial college transcripts here.

Note: Transcripts will be accepted as .pdf files only. If you have multiple transcripts from different universities, please combine them into one file before uploading

Please upload your unofficial high school transcripts here.

Note: Transcripts will be accepted as .pdf files only. If you have multiple transcripts from different high schools, please combine them into one file before uploading

Describe your familiarity with Microsoft Office programs such as Word, Excel and PPT or similar Google products.

Note: These skills are not an eligibility requirement for IUSCCC summer programs. Your response will be used to ensure you are placed into the most supportive environment for your training needs. Please provide sufficient and honest detail for program directors to match your skill set.  

Describe any experience you have with software such as Prism/Graphpad, MATLAB, R Studio Statistics, and Image J as well as any experience you have coding within Python, Java, and Java Script.

Note: These skills are not an eligibility requirement for IUSCCC summer programs. Your response will be used to ensure you are placed into the most supportive environment for your training needs. Please provide sufficient and honest detail for program directors to match your skill set.  

What are your personal and professional goals you want to accomplish after finishing your studies? What inspires you to pursue biomedical research?

In the past three years, in what athletic, artistic, extracurricular, community or other volunteer activities have you participated?

Please limit your answer to 300 words and specify which activities were during college and which during high school.

Which option best describes your prior participation in IU/IU School of Medicine summer research programs?

Note: Prior experience is not an eligibility requirement for IUSCCC summer programs. Your response will be used to ensure you are placed into the most supportive environment for your training needs.

Please provide information regarding your past program participation. What year? Who was your mentor? What did you research?

Please provide sufficient detail for program directors to know what you accomplished.  For multiple years please list them in chronological order providing relevant details for each year.

Have you previously participated in any formal summer research program that was not provided by IU/IU School of Medicine and/or any scientific research independently? 

If NO, leave blank. If YES, please name the program(s) and mentor(s), describe program duration and requirements, briefly describe your research, and explain what grade / school year you were in at the time.

Note: Prior experience is not an eligibility requirement for IUSCCC summer programs. Your response will be used to ensure you are placed into the most supportive environment for your training needs.

Please provide an explanation of your interest in cancer research and the IUSCCC summer programs. In your explanation, be sure to include how you think your participation would benefit your personal, educational and career goals and why you are interested in cancer research as opposed to other research areas.

Note: Please be clear in your description of why you are specifically motivated by cancer research in contrast to other research areas within the medical sciences.

IUSCCC provides housing support to a portion of accepted students based on need, but slots are limited. Housing is a shared apartment-style unit with full appliances. Applicants from outside central Indiana who do not receive and/or need housing support have the option to stay with family or friends who live within 40 miles the IUI Medical Library (988 W Walnut St, Indianapolis, IN 46202).

Please note:

• IU housing policy does not allow participants under the age of 18 (at time of program start) to stay in campus housing
• IUSCCC does not permit participants to stay in unsupervised accommodations such as hotels VRBOs, or AirBNBs during the duration of the program.

Please select the option that best describes your summer housing needs.

Enter your name on this line to certify you have completed this form with accurate information.

After you click submit you will receive a confirmation email to your personal email address (not your school email) that you provide.