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The application program will be live on or after June 2, 2025. Please return then and navigate to the Scholarship America Hub to register your account and begin your application process!

Corient Family Scholarship Program and CI Financial Family Scholarship Program
Live application window: June 2, 2025 through June 30, 2025 3:00 pm CT

As we work together to build the leading ultra-high net worth wealth manager, we’re committed to creating differentiated offerings – both for our clients and our employees. Corient has established a scholarship program to assist children of employees who plan to continue their education in college or vocational school programs. This site has everything you need to learn and apply to the program.

The program is administered by Scholarship America®, the nation’s largest designer and manager of scholarships and other education support programs for corporations, foundations, associations, and individuals. Eligibility for individual programs is determined at the sole discretion of the sponsor and eligible applications are reviewed by Scholarship America’s evaluation team.

Applicants to the Corient Family Scholarship Program and CI Financial Family Scholarship Program must:

  • Be dependent children*, age 26 and under, of full-time
    • Corient (United States) employees who have a minimum of 1 year employment with the company as of the application deadline date and who have an employee annual income of $200,000 USD or less
    • CI Financial (Canada) employee who have a minimum of 1 year employment with the company as of the application deadline date and who have an employee annual income of $200,000 CAD or less
    • *Dependent children are defined as natural and legally adopted children or stepchildren living in the employee’s household or primarily supported by the employee.

  • Be high school seniors/students in their final year of upper or higher secondary school, graduates, or current technical or college/university undergraduate students (including CGEP students)
  • Plan to enroll in fulltime undergraduate study at an accredited two- or four-year college, university or vocational-technical school for the entire upcoming academic year.
  • Have a minimum GPA** of 3.5 on a 4.0 scale.
    **Previous recipients may reapply with a minimum GPA of 3.2

Awards

If selected as a recipient, the student will receive a $10,000 award. Up to five (5) recipients will be selected annually.

Awards are renewable up to three years or until a bachelor’s degree or associate’s degree is earned, whichever occurs first, on the basis of satisfactory academic performance (maintaining a cumulative grade point average of 3.3 on a 4.0 scale), full-time enrollment, continued parent/guardian employment and employee annual income requirement.

Awards can be used for any education-related expenses.

Awards are for undergraduate and vocational-technical study only.

Notification

All applicants will be notified in June.

Payment of Scholarships

Scholarship America processes scholarship payments on behalf of Corient. Payments are distributed in late-August or early-September.

Payments are made payable to the college or vocational-technical school but mailed to the recipient’s home address.

Awards will be disbursed in United States Dollars.

Selection of Recipients

Scholarship recipients are selected on the basis of:

  • Academic record
  • Demonstrated leadership and participation in school and community activities
  • Work experience
  • A statement of educational and career goals and objectives
  • Unusual personal or family circumstances
  • An online recommendation

Selection of recipients is made by Scholarship America in accordance with Corient’s requirements.

Not all applicants to the program will be selected as recipients. Students may reapply to the program each year they meet eligibility requirements.

As part of your application, you must upload the following:

  • A current, complete transcript of grades. Grade reports are not accepted. Transcripts must display:
    • Student name
    • School name
    • Grades
    • Credit hours for each course and term in which each course was taken.

One online recommendation form must be submitted on your behalf no later than July 3, 2025 3:00 pm Central Time.

Your application is not complete unless all required materials are submitted electronically.

Corient has partnered with Scholarship America. Selecting the button below will redirect you to the Scholarship America Student Hub!

Please make sure to add studentsupport@scholarshipamerica.org as well as the program email address provided below in the footer as safe senders in your email contact list.