Summer Session Grants (SSG)

The Summer Session Grant (SSG) provides funding for undergraduate students, especially for underrepresented groups. Students pursue coursework during the summer session at Stanford or other accredited colleges and universities.

Purpose

The program assists students in completing courses required for an engineering major, e.g. engineering fundamentals, science, chemistry, differential equations, other math, GER, etc. It provides flexibility in the student's four year plans and an opportunity to improve the student's grade point average.

Awards

Students are selected according to their academic need and potential for achievement reflected in their application proposal. Selected students receive $100 to $3000 in grants. Units must be transferable.

Eligibility

Undergraduates must be a declared major or have academic interest in engineering and plan to complete courses during the summer session and use them towards graduation requirements. Applicants are especially sought from the following groups: women, Native Americans, African Americans and Hispanic Americans.

IMPORTANT: The flowcharts below will walk you through the application and award (reimbursement) process; deadlines included.

Flowchart for students taking classes at STANFORD for summer 2016

Flowchart for students taking classes at ANOTHER UNIVERSITY or COLLEGE for summer 2016

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Frequently Asked Questions

Application

Link to Application

Your application will not be considered complete until you have submitted in PDF format a resume, four-year plan, and a description of the equivalent course at Stanford (including what college, course number, and description). Please submit all of these in PDF format to Martha Schmidhauser at marthas1@stanford.edu with the subject: SSG 2016.
 

NOTE: An incomplete application WILL DELAY a timely response to your request.

Deadlines

Questions

Inquiries regarding pre-approvals may be directed to Ms. Darlene Lazar, Student Affairs Administrator, at (650) 723-5984, by email to dlazar@stanford.edu, or in Huang Engineering Center 135.

Inquiries regarding logistics may be directed to Martha Schmidhauser, Accounting Associate, by email to marthas1@stanford.edu, or in Huang Engineering Center 135.

Inquiries regarding advising and course scheduling or questions about Four-Year Plans may be directed to Dr. Noe Lozano, Associate Dean of Student & Diversity Affairs, at (650) 862-7063, by email to noe@stanford.edu