Apply to Middle School & Upper School
Application Timeline
We are now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 school year. To be considered for our first round of decisions, all application and tuition assistance materials must be submitted by December 2, 2024. First round decisions will be released in January.
In the spring, we will process applications on a rolling basis. Please note availability becomes more limited as we move through the year.
Step 1: Set up
Families New to Friends' Central: The first step in the application process is to submit our pre-application form for access to the Friends' Central Admissions Portal. This step needs to be completed on a desktop computer. Please click here to begin.
Current Friends' Central Families: Please click here to begin. Use your existing Veracross login account information and select add a student.
Step 2: Required Items
Once you have your Admissions Portal login credentials you can begin to complete the family portion of the application. If you are applying for more than one student you can begin multiple applications at this point. Your portion of the application is considered complete once the following items are submitted:
- Family Information
- Parent Questionnaire
- Student Questionnaire
- Last Year's Report Card
- Application fee ($75)
Step 3: Campus Visit
Upon submission of the above pieces of the application, a member of the admissions team will reach out to arrange the student and parent/guardian visit. This visit will include a conversation with an admissions counselor for the student and for the parents/guardians.
Step 4: Recommendations, Transcripts and Other Supporting Documents
- Recommendation Forms - Please send recommendation requests to the applicant's current Math and English teachers, as well as their Principal or School Counselor. We suggest you wait until October to send these forms. There is an optional supplemental recommendation that you may choose to send to a teacher, coach etc.
- Transcript Request - Please request an official transcript from your school. This must include the applicants previous year's grades as well as their grades through the first semester of the current school year.
- Student Graded Writing Sample - Please upload to the portal a graded writing assignment your child has completed within the last school year. Examples include: English/history essay or essay test, book report, story, history paper etc.
- Activities and Special Interest Form - This optional form is to list all activities and accolades students have earned from organizations outside of their school.
Step 5: ISEE Testing
All applicants must take the ISEE (Independent School Entrance Exam) to fulfill our standardized testing requirement. Use FCS code: 393315 for the ISEE. In addition to the ISEE, families can also submit a WISC-V test.
Step 6: Tuition Assistance (optional)
If you are planning to apply for tuition assistance, please click here to apply. More information on how to complete the application can be found here, or in the Quick Guide here.
