You need to be entering your sophomore, junior, or senior year.

Summer Challenge is a residential program only and students must live in the dorms on campus to participate.

No. Summer Challenge is non-credit.

The program fee includes tuition, housing, meals, scheduled activities, and textbooks.

Yes, international students can participate.

You can find application instructions on the How to Apply page.

We are looking for motivated high school students who are taking a college preparatory curriculum.

There is no financial aid for the Summer Challenge Program.

It usually takes three weeks after we receive your completed application. We encourage students to call our office to confirm that we have received a completed application.

Summer Challenge students enroll in two Boston University seminars. Click here for a list of seminars.

The number varies by session, ranging from about 90 to over 200 students.

There are about 20 students in each class.

Yes. The curfew is 11 pm Sunday-Thursday and midnight (12 am) Friday-Saturday.

All planned activities are mandatory. However, during free time students can leave campus as long as they have at least one other student with them, and they let a Program Assistant know they are leaving.

You can see a sample schedule of activities on the Program Events page.

If a parent or guardian is in town and would like to spend time with his/her son or daughter, they must schedule it during the student?s free time when there are no activities planned. Students may not miss scheduled activities.The parent or guardian needs to send written permission to the Summer Term office forty-eight hours before taking the student off-campus. The parent or guardian can email a letter of permission including details such as the time when the student will leave and return to campus and the cell phone number of the parent or guardian to summerhs@bu.edu.

Students are able to visit relatives or family friends in the area only with written permission from a parent received forty-eight hours before and only during scheduled free time. Students may not miss scheduled activities. The parent should email a letter of permission including details such as names and contact information of who the student will be visiting, the location, and the time of when the student will leave and return to campus to summerhs@bu.edu.

Yes, there is a $25 co-pay fee each time a student visits the Student Health Services Center.