Summer Bridge Programs

SSEA students.

Welcome! Our summer bridge programs aim to facilitate the transition from high school to Stanford. There are a variety of opportunities, including online courses and community based programs.
 

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Options for Summer Bridge Programs

Leland Scholars

Leland Scholars Program (LSP)

The Leland Scholars Program (LSP) facilitates the transition to college for incoming Stanford frosh who may be the first in their families to attend college, attended under-resourced high schools, or are from low-income backgrounds.
SSEA students.

Stanford Summer Engineering Academy (SSEA)

SSEA is a fully-funded, four-week summer program that welcomes a cohort of incoming first-year students from across the country and worldwide every August for a dynamic, fully integrated academic and community experience.
Students with computers. Photo by L.A. Cicero

Stanford Online Academic Resources (SOAR)

Stanford Online Academic Resources (SOAR) offers two online courses over five weeks in foundational mathematics and writing to prepare incoming students for further mathematics and writing courses at Stanford.
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LSP taught me the importance of accepting that I do belong at Stanford and should be proud of my FLI background. I was able to find a loving community who shared many of my struggles and fears coming into Stanford. LSP empowered me and gave me access to resources I would have struggle to find. Through LSP I learned what it means to have a home away from home.
—Kevin Longoria, LSP VII
Kevin Longoria, LSP VII
 

"SSEA has been transformative for me. Coming into SSEA, I was really apprehensive about engineering and the amount of competition here. But everyone so far has been super collaborative. Especially the professors. It’s amazing to see how qualified these individuals are, and how willing they are to engage with people who are not at their level yet, but are trying to get there."

—Hannah Leou, Stanford Summer Engineering Academy

Hannah Leou
 

“I would recommend SOAR particularly for students whose high school mathematics may have not laid great foundations in trig and precalculus. These foundations are utilized routinely in Math 19-21 and having some fluidity with them sure makes life easier and helped me follow along in the lectures (or at least not get hung up on foundational knowledge I should have known).”