Apply to Xavier

Ready to ApplyUse the button above to start or continue your online application. The application for the Class of 2028 opens on September 1, 2023. Once you submit your application, you will be able to track the progress of the submission of all other parts of your son's application and register for events through the Parent Portal. The deadline to submit your completed online application is December 1, 2023. If you plan to take the in-person Scholarship Exam (HSPT) administered by Xavier, the priority deadline for your online application is November 6, 2023 (this is a strict deadline). Applicants taking the HSPT through Regis High School, Fordham Prep, St. Peter's Prep, or Loyola School have the standard application deadline of December 1, 2023.

If your son is an "A" student (all grades in core subject courses above 90 [or their equivalents] for the last two academic years), he should consider registering for the HSPT. Please do not register for the exam if your son does not have such an average, unless he is using the HSPT as his entrance exam choice. You must complete and fully submit an online application (Step 1) by November 6 to register for the HSPT. No other steps in the process are due by November 6. Your son can only take the HSPT once, whether administered by Xavier, Regis, or Fordham Prep, Loyola School, or through the Archdiocese of Newark. Applicants to Regis must take the test at Regis. Applicants from New Jersey taking the COOP/HSPT must list Saint Peter's Prep (code 828). If he takes the HSPT through any of these locations, your son will be considered for a merit scholarship and for our Ignatian Scholars Program, provided that you give consent to Xavier to receive the HSPT score from an outside source. Regardless of where your son takes the HSPT, you will need to fill out the "Registration Form for HSPT" through the Parent Portal.

Knight for a Day visits will begin on October 16 and continue through December 15. We only offer Knight for a Day visits to eighth graders after they have submitted the required admission application. You must submit an admission application in order to register for Knight for a Day. Register through the Parent Portal.

Applicants must take one of the following standardized tests: TACHS/HSPT/SSAT/ISEE. If you are taking the online TACHS, you must list Xavier as a choice (code: 110). As our FAQs state, it does not matter which place you list Xavier on the TACHS exam, as long as you list Xavier as one of your three choices. Registration for the online TACHS opened on August 21 and closes on October 26. If you are taking the SSAT or ISEE, you must send your scores directly to Xavier (we must receive them no later than December 17). Once you submit the online application, please note which exams you are taking by filling out the Entrance Exam Form on your Parent Portal through which you submit the application.

If your son attends a Catholic school in the Archdiocese of New York or the Dioceses of Brooklyn and Rockville Centre and takes the TACHS, we will receive his TACHS applicant record along with his TACHS scores. He must list us on the TACHS for us to receive the transcripts. If he does not attend a Catholic school in the Archdiocese of New York or the Dioceses of Brooklyn or Rockville Centre, you must submit a Request for Academic Records form (also accessible through your online admissions portal) to his school’s principal or guidance/high school placement counselor. Make sure you complete the Request for Academic Records and give it to your school prior to December 1, 2023. We must receive his official academic records from sixth, seventh, and eighth grades, along with attendance records and state test scores, before December 8, 2023, to make a decision by the deadline. Your son's school should not submit the official academic records until your son has completed the first marking period of eighth grade. Due to privacy regulations, we cannot accept academic records provided directly by parents.

Each student may select up to two individuals to write online recommendations. Recommendation 1 must come from the teacher of a core subject area (math, science, history, English, or religious education) from sixth or seventh grade—preferably seventh grade. Recommendation 1 can be linked to Fordham Prep's application portal (and vice versa), only after you submit a separate application to each school. Please submit a recommendation request only to one of the two schools. It is the parent's responsibility to link the recommendations on the Parent Portal. This joint recommendation form will allow a recommender to complete the same recommendation for both schools at the same time. Recommendation 2 may come from a principal, school counselor, placement director, coach, pastor, or another teacher (again, preferably a seventh grade teacher). Each recommender must have a valid email address. You must complete and fully submit an online application before you have access to request an online recommendation through the Parent Portal. Teacher recommendations must be received no later than December 8, 2023. To be kind to your recommenders, we ask that you submit your requests for your online recommendations no later than December 1, 2023.

Starting on October 24, 2023, if you choose to submit an application for tuition assistance, please visit our Affording Xavier page for more details. FACTS applications must be received by December 1, 2023, and all supporting tax documentation must be received by FACTS no later than December 8, 2023.