A tour and interview are required. Please create an account in Ravenna to schedule your visit. 

Campus tours for prospective students and parent/guardian are led by a student admissions ambassador. During the 30 minute tour, you will walk through Newman's two historic five-story townhouses, observing classes, and chatting with students and faculty.

Should a student like to tour the dormitory, please let us know in advance. admissions@newmanboston.org

Student and parent/guardian interviews take place after the campus tour. The student interview takes about 25 minutes. The parent/guardian interview directly follows and takes about 20-25 minutes. During the parent/guardian interview, students will complete a writing sample.

For families unable to travel to Newman, please email admissions@newmanboston.org to schedule a virtual tour and interview via Zoom. 

Standardized testing is optional for all candidates, with the exception of a required English proficiency test for international students.

The Newman School accepts the ISEE, SSAT, and PSAT with no preference between tests. For those submitting the SSAT, the Character Skills Snapshot is optional. 

If your child has an IEP, 504 plan, and/or a neuropsychological evaluation, please communicate this to Melissa Bacon, Director of Enrollment Management, at mbacon@newmanboston.org to arrange a support evaluation with our School Counselor and/or Director of Student Success. The Newman School has a diverse student body and disclosure of such information is an important part of the admissions process to ensure that we can support your student. Please upload all documents into the checklist as additional documents. Please do this as early as possible so our team can review this prior to the January 31, 2025 deadline.

Ravenna Inquiry Form

We also accept SAO, but all applicants must fill out the Ravenna Inquiry Form. Applicants may submit a SAO application after first registering in Ravenna. There is no preference for either Ravenna or SAO applications.

ALL DOCUMENTS MUST BE TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH

Parent Statement:
Complete the parent section in Ravenna or SAO. 

Student Essay:
Students are required to submit one piece of writing, no longer than one page. The goal of this document is to show the student's voice via written expression. Students may choose to write about themselves, a passion subject, or something completely different from the norm in an essay, expository, poetry, dialogue, or comparative form. It may be a prior graded paper. 

Please submit this work on Ravenna or SAO.

• 2022-2023 and 2023-2024 full-year transcripts translated into English. 
• First semester 2024 transcript translated into English. 

Please have your school upload these documents to Ravenna or SAO, or have them email them to admissions@newmanboston.org. We are not able to receive transcripts directly from families. 

Transcript translation - we advise families to have their school email the transcript(s) directly to a translation service. The service can translate the document(s) into English and then create a PDF with the original language transcript and the English translation. This translated transcript can be emailed to the school, who can then upload it to Ravenna or SAO. 

Recommendations:

• Current English teacher recommendation
• Current math teacher recommendation
• Additional recommendation - this could be from a school counselor, principal, coach, advisor, or someone in your life other than a family member. The recommender could speak to your academic potential, effort/work ethic, and character. 

Please invite your recommenders via Ravenna or SAO. 

Recommendation translation - if a recommender is not comfortable writing in English, we advise families to have their recommender email the recommendation directly to a translation service. The service can translate the document(s) into English and then create a PDF with the original language transcript and the English translation. This translated transcript can be emailed to the recommender, who can then upload it to Ravenna or SAO. We are not able to receive transcripts directly from families, who are not allowed to read these confidential documents. 

We require an English language test for all applicants whose primary language is not English or have not been studying in a school where
English is the primary language of instruction for the past three years.

We accept the TOEFL iBT, Duolingo, and IELTS, with no preference between tests.

The School recognizes that a student's personal motivation to succeed is the best indicator of academic success. Suggested guidelines: