The application for the 2025 CVS Health / AACP Community Pharmacy Award for Student Pharmacists program is now open and can be found here: https://my.reviewr.com/site/cvs2025
Program Information
The CVS Health / AACP Community Pharmacy Award for Student Pharmacists will be awarded to 21 outstanding student pharmacists who face financial barriers in their pursuit of education. Students must be enrolled in their first (P1) or second (P2) year of the professional phase of the Pharm.D. degree program during the 2025-2026 academic year at an American Association of Colleges of Pharmacy (AACP) member institution. Selected awardees must demonstrate leadership, academic success, and a commitment to care for patients in underserved communities. Each awardee will receive a single $20,000 scholarship.
Goal of the Program
The CVS Health / AACP Community Pharmacy Award is intended to support students who will care for the needs of patients in underserved communities, the profession, and the public, both within and outside healthcare settings. The purpose of the scholarship is to reduce financial barriers for student pharmacists in pursuit of a Pharm.D. degree who are committed to addressing health disparities and the well-being of individual patients in communities across the United States.
Eligibility Requirements
Qualified applicants must meet the following requirements:
- Eligible student statuses during the 2025-26 Program:
- Students must be enrolled as a first (P1) or second (P2) year Pharm.D. student for the 2025-26 academic year.
- NOTE: Students enrolled in a 0-6 Pharm.D. program as a P3 or P4 (out of P6) student during the 2025-2026 (current) academic year are also eligible.
- Students must be able to demonstrate that they face financial barriers in their pursuit of education. To qualify, students must have filed or be claimed as a dependent on the most recent Federal Income Tax Return Form 1040, 1040A, or 1040EZ with an adjusted gross income that falls below the Low-Income Level listed below. The Low-Income Level is based on 200 percent of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services poverty guidelines and used to determine what constitutes a low-income family. (Table 1)
Table 1: 2024 Low-Income Levels | |
Persons in Family or Household | Income Level |
1 | $30,120 |
2 | $40,880 |
3 | $51,640 |
4 | $62,400 |
5 | $73,160 |
6 | $83,920 |
7 | $94,680 |
8 | $105,440 |
*For each additional person, add $10,760 | |
- Student must be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
- Students must demonstrate leadership, academic success, and a commitment to advancing the pharmacy profession and patient care.
- GPA for current degree program must be 2.5 or greater on a 4.0 scale. Applicants from schools with other grading systems are still eligible to apply for the scholarship.
- Students must submit a completed application by the deadline.
- A student may only receive the CVS Health / AACP Community Pharmacy Award once.
Scholarship Notification
- Completed applications are due Sunday, June 1, 2025, at 11:59 p.m. Hawaii Time (HT).
- Completed applications will be reviewed by August 2025.
- Scholarship recipients will be notified via email during Fall 2025.
- Funds will be forwarded to the student’s institution during Fall 2025.
- Additional information will be requested from awardees (e.g., media release, photo) during Fall 2025.
- AACP will announce the scholarship recipients on the AACP and Pharmacy Is Right for Me websites and social media in Fall 2025.
- CVS may also release related announcements about the scholarship recipients via the company’s communication channels.
Scholarship Payments
A single scholarship in the amount of $20,000 each will be awarded to twenty-one (21) outstanding students. AACP will pay the scholarship funds for each awardee directly to the pharmacy college or school where the student is currently enrolled. Funds will be dispersed in fall 2025 after the 2025-2026 academic year begins. Each institution will exclusively apply the scholarship funds to the awardee’s tuition and/or fees.
Scholarships Questions
Please contact AACP at scholarships@aacp.org with questions.