Our 3-week San Diego Program and our 1-week Hawai'i Program are sold out - we are only accepting applications for our Arizona and New Mexico courses.

Academic Connections is a selective pre-college summer academic and residential experience targeted to college-bound high school students, grades 9-12. We offer three program options to choose from:

Research Scholars

Exciting and innovative research labs, one-on-one interactions with world-renown UCSD faculty researchers.
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Research Studies

Approximately 25 intensive three-week courses across a wide array of academic disciplines, taught in classes of up to 22 per class by a UCSD grad student or faculty member.
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New! Global Environmental Leadership and Sustainability Courses

Intensive one-week, hands-on research and field work courses on the Big Island of Hawaii; Biosphere 2 in Arizona; and Los Alamos National Laboratories, New Mexico.