Get Started & Apply to be a Tartan!
Admissions Checklist
✓ Sign-up for a Tartan for a Day visit day!
✓ Attend our Open House on Sunday, November 7, 2021.
✓ Create your admissions account and submit your application.
✓ Online application and $60 fee due via admissions portal, by Friday, December 10, 2021.
Archdiocese of Washington Catholic School Students
✓ List The Academy of the Holy Cross as one of your choices when completing the Authorization Transcript Release form and High School Placement Test.
✓ Your school will automatically send over your academic transcript and recommendations to Holy Cross.
✓ School records must be submitted to the Admissions Office by Monday, January 10, 2022.
Public or Non-Catholic School Students
✓ Transcript Request for 7th & 8th grade.
✓ Two (2) Letters of Recommendations from your (1) English/ Language Arts & (1) Math teacher. (These forms can be sent directly to your teachers using the application portal)
✓ School records must be submitted to the Admissions Office by Monday, January 10, 2022.
Standardized Test Scores
After careful consideration, The Academy of the Holy Cross will not require the submission of standardized test scores. Applicants are welcome to submit standardized test scores they may have taken within the last calendar year, such as the High School Placement Test (HSPT). Submitted scores will be added to the admissions file. Applicants who choose not to submit scores will not be penalized. It is the preference of the applicant and her family.
The HSPT will be administered at Holy Cross on Saturday, December 4, 2021. Registration forms are available at www.adw.org beginning in October 2021.
For those applicants interested in the Sancta Crux Scholarship, Gillespie STEM Scholarship, or Performing or Visual Arts Scholarships, evaluations will be scheduled in February. Learn more about our scholarship opportunities here.
Admissions decision notifications of completed applications are mailed on Thursday, February 24, 2022 and emailed on Friday, February 25, 2022.
