Note: The online application for the 2023-2024 academic year will open in September. You will not find an option to select 2023-2024 within the Admission Portal at this time.

First Time Users: Submit the Pre-Application 

A first time user is someone who has not submitted the Pre-Application form, nor completed any forms for previous applicants.

If you are a first time user, you can begin the application process by clicking on the Pre-Application Form link below. After submitting the Pre-Application, you will receive an email that will give you access to your user account and a link to set up your password. Your user account and password will then give you access to your Admission Portal to begin the online application at your convenience. If you have already completed a Pre-Application Form and/or you already have a username and password, see below for information regarding “Returning Users: Apply Online.”

Prep Pre-Application link

Returning Users: Apply Online

If you have already completed the Pre-Application Form or are a current Seattle Prep parent with a Veracross username and password, you may access the online Admission Portal and online application by clicking the Seattle Prep Admission Portal link below. Then enter your username and password. If you do not remember your username or password, click the “Forgot Password” link inside the Admission Portal, or click here. A reset email will be sent to you.

Note: You will not receive a confirmation email when you have completed the application. Within your portal, each section has a progress bar. As each section is completed, the progress bar will change to show completion. Your application is fully completed once all the sections show the Green Completion status.

Prep Admission Portal link

The applicant must access and send the Confidential School Report/Transcript Request and the Confidential Teacher Evaluation forms to his or her current school using the Veracross admissions portal. Please check with the applicant's school to confirm who should receive each form. 

The applicant’s school must complete and electronically submit the forms to Seattle Prep along with an official transcript. This includes standardized test results and grades from at least 7th and 8th grades by the January 5 deadline. Applicants may want to follow up with their school to ensure that the forms and transcripts have been sent to schooldocs@seaprep.org by the deadline. The Admissions Committee will not consider incomplete applications.

Note: If the applicant's school prefers to complete the PDF version of the school forms instead of using Veracross, please download the school forms. Then provide the school with the forms to complete and email to schooldocs@seaprep.org.

Applicants in the 8th grade who are interested in visiting Prep for a day should begin the process by first creating an online admissions account in Veracross (step 1 above). Visits take place from October - December. Once the admissions account has been created in the portal, not only can 8th graders register for a visit, but they can also submit an application, electronically send school forms to their school, and track application status. 

Seattle Prep’s primary use for the High School Placement Test (HSPT) scores is to help with class placement for accepted students. While Prep also uses these scores for admissions, they represent a small piece within a multi-layered, holistic review of every application. Aware that some tutoring services advertise HSPT preparation as a paid service, Prep suggests that you save your money. There is no need to prepare for the HSPT. By virtue of being an 8^th grade student, applicants for freshman year have already prepared for the test. Better to concentrate on performance in school than waste time and resources on expensive test-prep tutoring.  Applicants can take the HSPT at Prep on Saturday December 3, 2022 or Sunday, December 4, 2022. 

Online registration for the Seattle Prep test dates must be completed by November 28.  Those who would like to apply to take the test with accommodations must complete the online registration by November 15. You can learn more about the HSPT here.

Online registration for the HSPT at Prep will open in October, 2022.

Seattle Prep requires 8^th grade applicants to submit a short video answering an interview question. The purpose of requiring 8^th grade applicants to submit a video is to give applicants an opportunity to share something about themselves with our admissions team. Applicants will record themselves responding to a question prompt provided by Prep and submit their video as part of the application process. More details and dates can be found within the admissions portal. The first date is in November.

Registration will open by mid-October within the admissions portal.