Housing
Applicants to Yale Summer Session who wish to live on campus should complete the online Application for Housing and Meals at the time of application to Summer Session.
Students who live on the Yale campus during the summer will have an opportunity to experience many aspects of Yale undergraduate life. Yale dormitories, called residential colleges, are the foundation of Yale's social and intellectual structure. The residential colleges foster a sense of community for their members and serve as a focal point for both informal and planned activities. Only students in residence have access to these summer facilities and activities.
The Summer Master is the chief administrative officer of the summer colleges and supervises the Assistant Masters and Yale students who serve as residential counselors. Together they are responsible for the well-being of the summer residents. The counselors help summer students adjust to life at Yale and in the New Haven area, and they coordinate a wide range of cultural and recreational activities such as lecture and film series, volleyball tournaments, chess matches, softball or touch football games, dances, and study breaks. There are also organized, supervised outings and field trips, which in the past have included visits to area museums and summer theater performances, a day at the beach, sailing on Long Island Sound, hiking in the Berkshires, and excursions to New York and Boston for Broadway plays and major league baseball games.
