International Applicants

Each year, our goal is to construct a well-rounded class with students from diverse backgrounds. We will look closely at the educational background that each student brings to the WRA classroom. Therefore, regardless of whether an applicant has a green card or a passport other than PRC, if the student has received the majority of his or her education from a Chinese school, public or private, that applicant is considered an applicant from China.

If an applicant has received the majority of his or her education from an international school in China which only admits non-Chinese passport holders, he or she will be considered non-Chinese.

If an applicant with a PRC passport has attended a school in the US for a minimum of three years immediately prior to attending high school, he or she will not be considered a Chinese applicant.

All applicants are required to submit an official score report for ONE of the following standardized tests. Please review the chart to determine which test is right for you.

English Proficiency Testing

Chinese applicants are also required to submit an official score report for one of the following English proficiency exams.

Each virtual interview will last approximately 15-30 minutes and will be conducted via Zoom or WeChat.

Please email Jordan Shriver at shriverj@wra.net or Lily Zhang zhangleli@wra.net to schedule the interview

Parents are not required to attend the virtual interview. Once applicants have completed the interview, parents may be invited to a parent interview with a WRA representative at a later date.

WRA uses the following portal.

• You need to start an online account on SSAT. Fill out the basic information and pay the application fee.

Our application deadline is January 15. We understand that your transcript, your recommendations and your test score may not be ready by Jan 15 . You must submit everything by February 14 in order for an application to be considered complete.

You may check the status of your application on SSAT or Ravenna. If there is something missing, we will contact you. It is extremely important that you put on your application a working email address which you will check daily.

WRA is mainly a boarding school with close to 65% of our students living on campus. The entire school program is designed for boarding students. It is also a co-ed school with nearly the same number of boys and girls.

We are going to admit 10 students, 8 into 9th grade and 2 into 10th grade. It will be an even number of girls and boys.

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The admit rate is around 5%.

If someone from our Chinese student pool doesn’t rise to 11th grade, we may have a space for 11th . We don’t admit Chinese students into 12th grade or for a post-graduate year.

You may email our admission office (admission@wra.net) to schedule a virtual campus visit.

Be yourself. It is to your benefit to showcase your true self. Being overly prepared for your interview can only hurt you. Don’t try to say what you think the interviewer wants to hear. Show your uniqueness! Be honest!

Admission decisions will be sent via email around March 10, 2020.