Congratulations Incoming Bruins! As you plan for your upcoming transition to UCLA, we invite you to participate in our summer bridge program.

The AAP Freshmen Transfer Summer Program (F/TSP) is a rigorous seven-week residential academic summer program that prepares first generation, low-income, educationally disadvantaged and underserved students, to successfully transition to UCLA by exposing students to the rigor and demands of academic life, and to campus programs, services, learning resources, and networks.

Students in F/TSP receive personalized attention from professors, teaching assistants, counselors, and peer counselors. Additionally, students work closely with peer learning facilitators in small groups and one-on-one meetings where they gain transferrable skills to take responsibility for their own intellectual development. Students in F/TSP get a head start on their four years at UCLA by enrolling in three courses, earning 10-12 units of credit. The courses offered in FTSP provide students with an introduction to the university and research; advance their critical reading and writing skills; and explore the culture, history, and experiences of diverse communities. F/TSP encourages students to become leaders within the AAP community of scholars, where they will broaden their life experiences and world outlook and have an entire network of support that will extend throughout their time at UCLA.

As an F/TSP student, you will:

• Be challenged academically.
• Enroll in three university courses that meet UCLA’s graduation requirements.
• Receive close personal attention from professors, teaching assistants, counselors, and peer counselors.
• Work closely with peer learning facilitators in small groups or in one-on-one individual meetings.
• Gain even more confidence in your intellectual abilities before having to deal with the pressures of your first full quarter of university academic work.
• Become familiar with the whole range of campus programs, services, and resources available to you.

Every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of the information in this Freshman Transfer Summer Program site. However, all courses, course descriptions, dates, fees, and conditions of admission are subject to change and deletion without prior notice.

To learn more, please visit our site here.

To apply, log in to my.ucla.edu & click “New Students” → “Admissions” → FTSP Application