Here’s a month-to-month breakdown to guide you through the admissions process.
Below are descriptions of all of the items needed to complete your application. The application and all required supporting documents are to be submitted through SSAT’s Standard Application Online (SAO) by January 15.
Please complete and submit the Standard Application Online (SAO) with your parent(s) and/or guardian(s).
We require a graded essay or paper (with teacher comments) from your current English or History class. The graded paper should not be a creative essay.
We require recommendations from your current math and English teachers. Please have teachers submit their recommendations using SAO.
We require a school recommendation from your principal, head of school, or guidance counselor. Additionally, we require a transcript of your grades from the current academic year and the past 2 years.
Note: If you have attended more than one school, you may need to contact each school to obtain the appropriate transcripts.
Test Optional Policy
At Miss Porter’s School, we believe that there are many ways to define academic success and promise. A study conducted of Porter’s students confirmed that standardized testing is not a complete predictor of academic achievement in the classroom. One’s course of study, grades, and teacher recommendations provide a far more comprehensive assessment of one’s ability than standardized testing. Additionally, championing test-optional practices will allow us to assess applicants’ strengths while promoting equity. It is for these reasons that we will no longer require standardized testing in our admission process.
If a student feels as though standardized test results, whether the SSAT, ISEE, SAT or state-based exams, represent them well and support their academic profile, they are, of course, still welcome to submit them.
While we continue to require applicants whose first language is not English to demonstrate their proficiency in English by submitting either the TOEFL, IELTS, or Duolingo results, we will not require students to submit standardized results from the SSAT, ISEE, or state-based exams.
To apply for need-based financial aid, you must check the appropriate box on the admission application due January 15. For more information about eligibility requirements and application instructions, please visit our financial aid page.
All students applying to Miss Porter’s School must complete an interview. Interviews can be done masked and in-person during one’s visit to campus (as conditions allow) or via Zoom. Students and families who are unable to come to campus will be given a virtual tour of the school prior to their interview. To schedule an in-person and/or virtual visit, please contact the Office of Admission at admission@missporters.org
Generation after generation, our leadership is defined by our ability to articulate how young women think, how young women learn, and why gender matters. At Miss Porter’s School, we provide students with a uniquely empowering learning environment and our mission and program focus on girls and women and the experiences needed for our graduates to shape a changing world.
In the admission process, we welcome applicants who identify as girls. While enrolled, some students come to openly identify with different gender identities, and the School is committed to an inclusive community rooted in the inherent worth and dignity of each member. This requires that our teachers, administrators, and students work together to create the conditions that allow for belonging as our understanding of gender expands and deepens over time.
Associate Director of Admission for Financial Aid
860-409-3618
jrumsey@missporters.org
Director of International Recruitment; Assistant Dean, Equity & Inclusion
860-409-3612
ksimison@missporters.org