College student walking across campus
← All Scholarships

You manage a diseaseand a course load.

The Warrior Scholar award is $2,500 for a student living with Type 1 Diabetes. No minimum GPA, no essay contest polish required. Tell us the truth and we will read it.

1 award for 2027$2,500

Who can apply

Short list. On purpose.

  • You live with Type 1 Diabetes.
  • You are enrolled, or will be enrolled, at a college, university, or accredited trade program during the 2027 to 2028 academic year.
  • You can name one recommender who will write a short letter.
  • Immediate family of T1D Warriors board and committee members are not eligible.

The award is paid toward tuition, fees, books, or the real cost of managing T1D at school. There is no GPA cutoff. We care more about how you have handled what is in front of you.

The recommendation

We email your recommender for you.

When you submit, we send your recommender a short request with a deadline of March 22, 2027. They reply to that email with the letter, attached or just typed in the message. There is no portal and no form for them to hunt down.

Give them a heads up before you list them, and nudge them a week before the deadline. Letters are almost always the last piece to land.

2027 cycle

Four dates to keep.

STEP 1
You submit

Confirmation to you, request to your recommender.

STEP 2
March 15, 2027

Applications close.

STEP 3
March 22, 2027

Recommendation letters due.

STEP 4
April 1, 2027

Every applicant hears back, awarded or not.

Applications open January 2027

We'll tell you the week it opens.

Applications open January 2027

Applications are not open yet. Leave your email and we will write to you the week the form goes live, so you are not checking back all winter.

Questions in the meantime: scholarships@t1dw.org

Application information is seen only by the selection committee and is never shared or sold. Applications that are not awarded are deleted 90 days after the announcement date.

How awards are decided

Small committee. Plain rules.

  • A small selection committee reviews every application.
  • Immediate family of board and committee members are not eligible.
  • Awards are made without regard to race, religion, sex, or national origin.

T1D Warriors is not affiliated with the American Diabetes Association. We fund camper fees for families attending ADA Camp Korelitz.