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Please click here to request information about Saint Vincent Academy.Saint Vincent Academy students are challenged to reach beyond academic excellence - to be reflective, to be committed to the service of personal faith and to the promotion of goodwill throughout the larger community.
We enroll approximately 90 new students each year and encourage applications from those women who have the ability and enthusiasm to benefit from and contribute to our unique environment.
Below you will find a list of steps which should make the applications process clearer to prospective students and their parents. If you have any further questions about the admissions process, please call us at (973)622-1613.
For admission to the ninth grade:
(Tuition aid is available to incoming ninth graders. A separate application is required and may be obtained from SVA or your eighth grade teacher. These applications are due in early December.)
Early fall of eighth grade:
Student should consider the high schools to which she wishes to apply.
In early October, register to take the High School Admissions Test, administered each November by the Archdiocese of Newark. SVA'S COOP ID is 815.
For information about registering for this test, contact SVA or call the Archdiocesan School Office at (973) 497-4260. Parochial school students will be directed in this process by their own teachers.
Prior to December 1:
Request that elementary school records be sent to SVA no later than December 1st. Records should include marks from grades 6, 7 and 8, attendance records and standardized test scores from grades 6, 7 and 8.
Last week of December – first week of January:
SVA processes applications, records and results of the admission test.
Criteria on which acceptance decisions are made include the following:
The recommendation of the student's elementary school principal.
The student's grade point average (minimum C average).
The student's attendance record.
Standardized test scores, above fortieth percentile.
Third week of January:
Letters of decision sent to all applicants.
First Saturday in February:
Registration: non-refundable registration fee of $100 required.
For admission to the tenth, eleventh and twelfth grades:
Spring
Submit applications. Application for admission includes:
Student’s official high school transcript.
Letter from the parent or guardian explaining why she or he wishes to enroll the student in SVA.
Letter from the student with her reasons for wishing to transfer to SVA.
Early summer
Applications for admission reviewed.
July, August
Registration for grades 10 through 12 as openings allow.
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