Off-campus living expenses, such as meals and housing, are not included in your Summer Grant funding. Therefore, you should plan additional resources to cover these expenses.
Students looking for information about housing during summer break or Summer Session should review the Residential Life website. Dining Services will provide communication to all students about meal plan options for the summer, including a list of dining locations that will be open during the summer.
Residential Life and Dining Services will provide information about housing and meals by the end of May. Students requiring any housing or meals during the summer should complete the Summer Break Housing form that should be available on the Residential Life website in May.
Students enrolled in Summer Session who were notified of their eligibility for Summer Grant by the Office of Financial Aid , may be eligible for meals and/or housing assistance if charged by Brown for the Summer Session time-period only. These students should refer to the email they received from the Office of Financial Aid for specific details of their eligibility. Note that you cannot receive any aid for intersession (the times between the end of one term and the start of the next).
If a student fully withdraws at any time during the Summer Session, any support provided for meals or housing will be totally eliminated and those charges will be the responsibility of the student.
Summer Break Housing - Not Enrolled in Summer Session
The Office of Financial Aid cannot provide any aid in the summer to students who are not enrolled in summer classes, nor to cover extended stay and/or early arrival charges.
Students not enrolled in the Summer Session will have the opportunity to request emergency housing and meals through EGAP, however, support is not guaranteed. If you feel that emergency support may be needed, it is recommended that you should schedule a financial advising meeting to discuss summer housing and meal support before May 1st. Students will not be approved for this support without first meeting with a member of the Financial Advising team. To schedule a meeting click here.
Summer Need Calculation
Brown determines a summer family contribution which is consistent with the previous aid year’s family contribution. Support will be provided to those aided Brown University students enrolled in the Undergraduate Summer Session and will be applied only to direct charges posted by Brown including tuition, on-campus Summer Session housing, on-campus Summer Session meal plan, and a portion* of the Global Housing, Meal & Activity fee charged as part of a Brown Global Summer Program. Only charges for the Summer Session enrollment period may be covered; no extended stay, early arrival, or meal charges before or after the official Summer Session period will be covered. No external expenses will be covered.
The Office of Financial Aid calculates the summer family contribution by dividing the total of the full year Total Family Contribution (excluding any Campus Employment or Federal Work Study) by eight. This represents a per class contribution a family has during non-academic year enrollment. This figure will be multiplied by the number of classes the student is enrolled in and charged for during the Summer Session. Most Brown direct charges remaining above this summer family contribution will be covered by Summer Grant. Please note that Summer and Winter Session aid determination is significantly different from Brown’s academic year determination. This support is being offered through funding from the Division of Pre-College and Undergraduate Programs.