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Manage a property or develop a home-sale plan in this 2-week program for high school students at UCLA.
Students in Summer Discovery’s 2026 UCLA high school program rated their course experience 4.3 out of 5.
Course Description
What does it take to sell a home or manage a residential property? Students build a foundation in real estate while comparing the roles, responsibilities, and daily resources used across the profession. Career exploration introduces the skills behind sales, leasing, property management, contracts, and client communication.
Workshops make the process practical. Students practice completing real-estate contracts, distinguish features from benefits, develop a sales pitch, and role-play parts of selling a house. A career exploration fair and possible visit connected to university real-estate resources broaden their view of the industry and the pathways within it.
For the capstone, students choose between acting as a real-estate agent selling a home or as a leasing manager running an apartment complex. Teams organize the steps, documents, decisions, and presentation required for their chosen scenario. The project connects professional responsibilities with communication, financial awareness, and the role real estate can play in building wealth.
This two-week course takes place at UCLA. The course is available to residential and commuter students. Beyond class, students connect focused academic work with campus life, growing independence, and clearer direction about what students may want to study or pursue next. The program is developed by UCLA and offered in partnership with Summer Discovery.
What Will You Do?
• Explore careers and responsibilities across the real-estate industry
• Practice completing introductory real-estate contracts
• Distinguish property features from customer benefits
• Develop and rehearse a real-estate sales pitch
• Role-play steps involved in selling a home
• Complete a home-sale or apartment-management capstone
Learning Outcomes
By the end of the course, students will be able to:
• Explain major real-estate roles and professional responsibilities
• Apply introductory contract and sales concepts to a property scenario
• Develop and present a plan to sell a home or manage an apartment complex
Students leave with a completed real-estate capstone and a clearer understanding of sales, leasing, property management, and industry careers.
Why Real Estate Skills Matter
Real estate decisions combine contracts, communication, market knowledge, operations, and financial consequences. Students learn that presenting a property involves more than describing it. Professionals must understand client needs, explain terms, manage documents, and follow a process.
The capstone also builds project management. Students divide responsibilities, organize information, practice a pitch, and present a complete scenario. These skills support business, finance, law, urban studies, hospitality, sales, and other fields where assets and relationships must be managed carefully. Together, the work reinforces careful reasoning and the ability to revise a conclusion when new evidence changes the picture.
Who Should Attend?
This course is for high school students who have completed 9th, 10th, 11th, or 12th grade and are interested in real estate, business, finance, sales, property management, or how housing can function as an asset. It fits students who want to explore the daily work behind transactions and operations.
Participants should be ready to work with contracts, practice client-facing communication, collaborate on a scenario, and present a final project. Organization, curiosity, and willingness to role-play professional decisions will support success.
Recommended by More Than 4 out of 5 Students
Based on students surveyed in Summer Discovery’s 2026 UCLA high school program.
Why UCLA?
UCLA gives high-school students the opportunity to explore an academic interest while experiencing university life in Los Angeles, a city where entertainment, technology, business, science, and culture constantly intersect. The campus has its own community and rhythm while connecting students to a wider environment built around creativity and new ideas.
Students learn alongside peers, navigate a large campus, and gain independence through everyday choices and responsibilities. Time outside class expands the experience through friendships, campus life, and opportunities to notice which subjects and settings hold their attention. For families, UCLA offers a valuable combination of substantive academics, personal growth, and clearer direction about what a student may want to study, experience more deeply, or pursue next.
Summer Discovery Certificate of Completion
After successfully finishing this course, you will be awarded a certification of completion for your accomplishment.
*This is a preview, not what you will receive