Enrichment Programs

To secure space in UChicago Summer Session, students and their families need to complete all the items on the checklist below. All items are accessible through the Status Page located at https://applypcs.uchicago.edu/apply.

Complete and submit the required forms via your UChicago Account:

• Health and Medical information
• Emergency Contact information
• Parental Release Form (to be completed by parent or guardian ONLY)
• Academic, Social, and Residential Policies Acknowledgment
• Student Waiver of FERPA Rights
• You will be emailed information about submitting a photo for your ID card.

Check-in will take place at the University’s Hyde Park campus. Please arrive between 10:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. to check into the residence hall. Students who arrive before 10:00 a.m. will keep their belongings with them until they can check into their room after 10am.

Please check your program page or decision letter to confirm your arrival day. On the Sunday of your arrival, you will become acquainted with and ask questions about life at UChicago. Students will check in at the residence hall and receive their program materials, attend an orientation session, and connect with their residential House through a campus tour, dinner, and an all-House meeting.  

GETTING TO CAMPUS

All travel is booked by Fox travel. You will receive more details about how to book travel.

Chicago weather in the summer can fluctuate, but you should, when packing clothes, make sure you’re prepared for the possibility of high heat (as high as 90-95 degrees Fahrenheit) and humidity. 

We recommend that you pack the following items to make your stay more comfortable:

• Light clothing
• Extra blanket or comforter
• Warm layer in case of cooler weather
• Umbrella or rain jacket
• Walking shoes
• Laptop recommended, but not required
• Notebook for notetaking
• Smart Casual outfit for Networking dinner
• Swimsuit
• Sunscreen
• Notebooks
• Toiletries
• Folders
• Clothes hangers
• Pens and pencils
• Photo ID
• Personal spending money

The residence hall’s linen service provides a summer-weight blanket, sheets, pillows, and towels, but, if you are particular about your linens, you should bring your own. All beds are extra-long single beds (36” x 80”). Students who prefer more than one pillow, a heavier weight blanket (air-conditioned buildings can be chilly at night) or a larger towel will want to pack accordingly. The residence hall has pay-per-use laundry facilities, and Summer Session will provide basic laundry detergent, but you will need to provide your own fabric softener, dryer sheets and clothes hangers.

All pre-college students on campus will check-in nightly with their residential staff members. This required nightly curfew sign-in period, which is reviewed with students during Orientation, is another opportunity for students and staff to connect. Although we do not conduct bed checks or enforce a “lights out” in the residence halls after curfew, quiet hours after 10pm ensure that all can study and sleep.  There are no exceptions to the nightly curfew policy for 9th and 10th grade Enrichment students. Parent or guardians of students in 11th grade may request to bring their students home (or elsewhere off campus) on a specific evening, and have submitted a Parental Curfew Release Form more than 24 hours before the student departs from campus.

Parents must complete a Parental Curfew Release Form if:

• They authorize an adult (including themselves) who is not a Summer Session participant, to accompany their student outside the dormitory after curfew hours, or
• They authorize an adult (including themselves) who is not a Summer Session participant to accompany their student off-campus overnight and/or for a weekend.

This online form is to be completed by the parent or guardian for every date the student will be outside the residence hall during designated curfew hours: after 10:00 PM and before 6:00 AM daily. This form must be received at least 24 hours prior to the release date. Please allow 24 hours for a staff member to acknowledge approval of your request. Students without approved Curfew Release Forms on file and who are not present for curfew sign-in will be considered in violation of the curfew policy and disciplined accordingly.

The form should be used if the student will be continuously out of the residence hall during curfew hours: for example, a late dinner one night or staying with family off-campus overnight or for the weekend. Blanket releases that would allow students to come and go throughout the program without regard to curfew will be rejected.

All residential students must check out of the residence hall by 9:00 AM on the day their program ends.