Harvard Model United Nations (HMUN) is a four-day, Harvard-student-run simulation for high school delegations, held each year in downtown Boston.
For HMUN 2027 its organisers run a need-based financial aid programme for delegations that cannot raise the full cost of attending. Aid weighs both demonstrated need and the fundraising a delegation has already done.
Benefits & funding
- Need-based help toward conference costs; no award amount or ceiling is published.
- Recipients must stay at one of the two conference hotels (Sheraton Boston, Copley Marriott), quoted at US$229 a night for single to triple rooms and US$260 for quads, before tax.
Eligibility
- Open to delegations from any country.
- Delegates must be 13 or older and in high school, or recently graduated and not yet in college, at conference time; college students are barred.
- Each delegation travels with a faculty advisor aged 18 or over; at most 20 delegates per delegation.
- Delegations are expected to have sought all other funding before applying.
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Education required
High School
Age requirement
≥ 13 yrs
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Application process
- 1Register the delegation for HMUN 2027 (last registration deadline 1 November 2026).
- 2Read the Guide to Fundraising and Financial Aid.
- 3Submit the online Financial Aid Application by 1 November 2026, with written statements on need and prior fundraising and a cover letter signed by the faculty advisor and the principal.
Program timeline
Financial aid application and late registration deadline
Nov 1, 2026
Conference opens in Boston
Jan 28, 2027
Conference ends
Jan 31, 2027