The university offers fully furnished residence halls and suites within easy walking distance of classrooms, libraries, and recreational facilities for summer high school students enrolled in the Summer College Immersion Program (SCIP and SCIP+) and Precollege Summer Institutes with mandatory housing. To learn more about campus living, take the virtual tour of the residential halls. Please see below for housing details depending on program type:
Many students find living on campus to be a convenient and enjoyable option during Summer Sessions. Housing is available for periods of 3, 6, 8, 9, 10, and 12 weeks. To learn more about campus living, take the virtual tour of the residential halls and watch our UCLA housing videos.
For students who prefer the independence of living off-campus, UCLA also offers furnished University Apartments near campus. To be eligible for University Apartments, students must be 18 years of age or older by June 26, 2023. For more information on summer housing opportunities, please visit UCLA Housing Services.
Note: UCLA Summer Sessions is not affiliated with and does not provide support for any non-structured housing. There will be no supervision provided for students with at-large housing contracts.
For those enrolled in either Precollege Summer Institutes with mandatory housing, as well as those enrolled in SCIP/SCIP+ who indicate yes to housing, students will reside in a residence hall with following amenities:
Residential check-in and check-out depends on whether your program has mandatory or optional housing.
Early arrivals for residential check-in or late departures for check-out cannot be accommodated. If you need to leave earlier before check-out time, you may do so as long as all mandatory programming and final requirements have been completed.
If you are attending back-to-back Precollege Summer Institutes, you may submit a Stayover Request for the night in between institutes to info@summer.ucla.edu; the deadline to submit this request is June 15.
You will be assigned roommates based on age and gender and will be notified of the roommate assignment during check-in. In order to better foster a learning community that exposes students to a broader network of peers, we do not accommodate any specific roommate assignment request.
Summer Institute students will be grouped by their specific programs in the residence hall.
Please complete the Roommate Agreement (one worksheet per room, all roommates contribute) and submit to your program (online or ask RA where to submit) at your earliest convenience and no later than day 3 of your program.
Suggested items to bring:
Before packing, please refer to your specific program page as some programs require or suggest clothing or other items for program activities.
If you choose to bring an electronic device(s), we strongly recommend documenting the serial number to prove ownership in the event of a lost and recovered device. Your sole responsibility is to keep track of all your belongings; we are not responsible for lost items. We do not recommend bringing expensive jewelry or irreplaceable items.
Our residential staff will be planning interactive, optional Residential Activities for SCIP and SCIP+ students in housing. These activities are designed to help students make the most of their academic programming at UCLA and connect with their cohort. Some of the areas that may be covered in workshops also include time management, stress relief, and study tips.
Our precollege programs with mandatory housing (only) also feature non-curricular evening and weekend activities, the availability of which is at the sole discretion of the academic department offering the program, and are not operated by UCLA Summer Sessions. To learn more about when your selected program will host such activities, please consult the schedules for each program or contact the department in question directly. Please be sure to visit your program page more than once as schedules are subject to change.
Outside of the official academic class schedule, participants are expected to participate in all planned evening or weekend programming activities offered by the residential supervision team. However, during their down time, students may also spend time doing homework, relaxing in their dorm, or exploring on campus. Off-campus trips that are not part of either official programming or part of residential activities are only permitted when they do not interfere with scheduled activities and are done safely. Any requests to leave campus or the program at any time must be made well in advance of any planned absence by parents/guardians, and are subject to university approval as described in the Supervision and Curfew section on this page.
If students are approved for an off campus trip via a Leave/Curfew Request (see “Supervision and Curfew” below), they should review and follow the Bus & Public Transit Safety Guidelines. Students may NOT leave campus alone and should contact their Residential Staff and/or Program Coordinator if they have questions on their program’s attendance policy. Any unapproved departures from campus or absences from mandatory program activities may become grounds for dismissal from the program.
Summer Institute attendance for academic programming, co-curricular events, and team-building extracurricular activities, unless otherwise specified, is mandatory. You must participate in and be punctual to all required activities, including, but not limited to, orientations, classes, group meetings, and excursions. No make-up activities will be provided.
Program faculty and administrators reserve the right to dismiss a participant for repeated tardiness to and/or unauthorized absences from required activities for reasons other than unforeseen emergencies; program fees will not be refundable in the event of dismissal. Parents/guardians should consult the program administrators concerning any foreseeable absence as soon as possible.
UCLA Precollege Summer Institutes with mandatory housing, Summer College Immersion Program, and Summer Courses are NOT youth summer camps. Rather, UCLA Precollege Summer programming is intended for highly motivated, mature high school students who are ready for college-level experiences and capable of making their own decisions, as well as accepting the consequences for those decisions. Participants are expected to manage themselves with a high level of independence and self-sufficiency comparable to matriculated UCLA students.
Residential Supervision:
A skilled team of UCLA undergraduate students and staff will be assigned to residential participants. All staff have undergone an extensive background check and training. Their duties include:
Curfew:
In accordance with the Program Participant Agreement, participants must abide by the nightly curfew of 11:00 PM in their assigned dorm room, which is to ensure sufficient rest for successful participation in the program’s activities. Curfew violations without prior staff approval may result in disciplinary actions, such as being dropped from the program.
A parent/guardian may submit a Leave and Curfew Exception Request Form (see below) to request an exception to the evening curfew. Approval will not be granted if forms are incomplete, submitted by someone other than the student’s parent/guardian, or submitted without ample time for staff to review and process the form. After receiving the request, the residential staff may contact the parent/guardian for verification purposes.
Students may be absent from the program’s required activities due to medical reasons, emergencies, or personal reasons. However, absences may affect successful performance, and full participation in program activities is essential to your success in the program. Any foreseeable absence from a mandatory activity must receive prior approval via a Leave and Curfew Exception Request Form (see below).
PROGRAM LEAVE AND CURFEW REQUESTS MUST BE SUBMITTED NO LATER THAN THE END OF THE FIRST DAY/START DATE OF THE STUDENT’S PROGRAM/COURSE SESSION.
SCIP and SCIP+
Precollege Summer Institutes
