Admissions Criteria
To be eligible for the Simons STEM Scholars program you must be a high school senior or academically equivalent and entering your freshman year of college on the traditional timeline (ie; not transferring from Stony Brook or another institution into the program).
Applicants must have at least a 3.0 GPA or an 87 on a 100 Point GPA scale.
Applicants must have at least completed Pre-Calculus or a math-equivalent by time of matriculation.
Applicants must have a personal commitment to increasing diversity and inclusion in the STEM fields.
Applicants must have a strong interest in research and a research based career.
Applicants are preferred to have demonstrated leadership and community service experiences. (If it is present on your Stony Brook Application we will see it there!)
Applicants must either be a US Citizen or Permanent Resident. Applicants who are not US citizens may apply, however students who intend to study on a F1 visa are not eligible. If you have additional questions regarding this stipulation, please contact us at SimonsScholars@stonybrook.edu.
Simons STEM Scholars Accepted Majors
Students must apply within one of the majors listed below, with this being said as long as a student is in one of these majors, they may double major or minor in something not listed here if they wish under program funding:
- Applied Math and Statistics
- Astronomy/Planetary Science
- Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences
- Biochemistry
- Biology BS
- Biomedical Engineering
- Chemical and Molecular Engineering
- Chemistry BS
- Civil Engineering
- Climate Science
- Coastal Environmental Science
- Computer Engineering
- Computer Science
- Computational Linguistics
- Data Science
- Economics
- Electrical Engineering
- Engineering Chemistry
- Engineering Science
- Environmental Studies
- Geology
- Human Evolutionary Biology
- Marine Sciences
- Marine Vertebrate Biology
- Mathematics
- Mechanical Engineering
- Physics
- Psychology BS
