Summer Springboard Interior Design II High School Course

Yes. Summer Springboard makes Interior Design I a prerequisite, so this course is for students who already have the drafting, floor plan, color scheme and furniture basics from that course's apartment project. You must also have finished 9th grade before the program starts, and Summer Springboard asks for a 3.0 GPA (or local equivalent) for every program. International students show their English through a phone interview or a minimum score: TOEFL 60 on the iBT or 490 on paper, Cambridge PET-Distinction or FCE-C, or SAT 450 in Reading and Writing.

Interior Design I runs at NYSID in Session 1, 11 to 23 July 2027, right before this course, and Summer Springboard lets NYSID students pick two courses for a four-week stay. It doesn't say outright that taking both in the same summer meets the prerequisite, so it's worth confirming with admissions before you book. The application itself asks for short answer essays and signed agreement forms, and Summer Springboard also screens applications against its essential eligibility criteria, such as managing your own medication and walking more than a mile between buildings. It publishes no acceptance rate.

Class runs from 9:30am to 12:30pm and again from 1:30pm to 3:30pm, Monday to Friday in the first week and Monday to Thursday in the second, which comes to about 45 hours (five hours a day over nine days). Three or four of those sessions, usually mornings, become excursions, and for this course Summer Springboard lists private tours of hotels such as the Regency and the Plaza alongside showroom and design-studio visits. In class you get your own drafting table and computer in a NYSID homeroom, with access to the library, printers and a fabric library.

Outside class, a residential day starts with breakfast at 8am, and lunch at 12:30pm is at NYSID or nearby. Late afternoons bring a College Readiness Workshop or a True You personal-growth session, dinner is at 6:30pm, evening clubs start at 8pm and dorm checks are at 10:30pm. Past weekend trips have included a New York exploration day with Top of the Rock, Central Park and a boat tour, plus Six Flags Great Adventure.

The instructors Summer Springboard names are mostly working designers, several with NYSID ties, although it lists two different line-ups. For Interior Design II it introduces Pamela Giolito, an interior designer it describes as a supportive and approachable teacher, and Francisco de Leon, president of FAD Graphics, a former New York Times graphic designer and the program's pre-college director. It also introduces Taruan Mabry, a 2015 NYSID graduate whose projects include a skyscraper restaurant in Dubai and cocktail bars in Las Vegas.

Its 2027 information for the interior design courses instead lists Christine Ortiz, a NYSID graduate who founded her own firm, Oh! Designs Interiors, and Lynette Bard, a NYSID faculty member who holds a National Council for Interior Design Qualification (NCIDQ) certificate. Summer Springboard doesn't say who teaches which session or how big classes are, so both are fair questions for admissions.

You leave with a finished hospitality design, the café and hotel lobby you plan for your chosen client, which Summer Springboard describes as a floor plan created from start to finish for your portfolio. Summer Springboard says the course offers one college credit that applies toward an undergraduate degree at NYSID or can be included in your college applications, and it says nothing about other colleges accepting it. Every Summer Springboard student also receives a completion certificate and a letter of recommendation from their professor.

For applications made by 30 November 2026, residential tuition is $5,998, commuter tuition $3,398 and the classes-only commuter option $2,698. Summer Springboard raises tuition on 1 December 2026 and hasn't published the new figures. Residential covers your room, all meals, the course, excursions and weekend trips. Classes-only covers lunch, the course and excursions from 9:30am to 3:30pm on weekdays, and leaves out the College Readiness Workshops, True You sessions, evenings and weekend trips, with weekend excursions available for $125 per day. The middle commuter option adds the workshops and campus access from 9am to 5pm on weekdays.

On top of tuition, the non-refundable application fee is $99, rising to $149 after 21 February 2027 and $199 after 18 April 2027, and a $600 deposit is due when you apply. Group airport transfers are $95 each way, and Summer Springboard suggests about $100 a week in spending money. Need-based scholarships can cover up to 30% of residential tuition or 60% of commuter tuition, but never the deposit or fees.

If you cancel before 1 March 2027, you get all your tuition back except the application fee. From 2 March to 1 April you get all tuition back except the deposit and application fee. After that the refund drops to 75% of tuition between 2 April and 1 May, 25% after 1 May and nothing after 1 June, again without the deposit and fee. An optional Tuition Protection Plan, bought when you apply, lets you cancel for any reason up to the day the program starts. Under its 2026 terms it cost $699, which isn't refunded.

Residential students live in a Marymount Manhattan College residence hall in Midtown and walk to NYSID on the Upper East Side, and Summer Springboard puts a staff member on every floor, with other staff living on site and on call 24 hours a day. The building has round-the-clock security with ID-card entry, students must stay in their rooms after the 10:30pm dorm check, and urgent and emergency care are close to both the dorm and the school.

Suites hold 4 to 7 students in two bedrooms of 2 to 4, matched by age and gender, who share a bathroom and kitchenette. The building has air conditioning, a small gym and laundry you pay for through an app. No linens are provided, so pack Twin XL sheets, a blanket or comforter, a pillow and towels. Breakfast and dinner come from a preloaded meal card, lunch is served at NYSID, and Summer Springboard can cater for some special diets, including vegetarian, vegan, gluten-free and specific food allergies. Students keep and take their own medication, and phones must be off during program activities.