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for the ride of your life.

HOLDERNESS SCHOOL Chapel Lane Post Office Box  Plymouth, NH - telephone: .. facsimile: .. www.holderness.org

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In addition to serving as our mascot, the Holderness Bull has instilled direction in the classroom and on the playing field since 1879.

contents get acquainted speak out play hard stand out get involved stand up make connections come on board

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get acquainted life at Holderness “Hi. How are you?”

There are a lot of different ways to say that, but even casual visitors to Holderness are struck by how often they hear it in the buildings and on the walkways.

There are reasons why Holderness is as friendly as it is. The school is small enough for everybody to know everybody else. That also means that everybody plays an important role in the life of the campus. Students can find roles they are comfortable in and roles that challenge them into exploring the full breadth of their potential in

mind, body, and spirit. And that’s guided exploration, done with your friends and with teachers whose defining characteristic is that they enjoy and care about the students they work with.

This allows a spirit of playfulness to pervade everything they do with kids in the classroom, the playing fields, the dormitories, the outdoors, and the community. Then it happens. Classmates, teammates, roommates, teachers, coaches, dorm parents—they all become friends, and often the sort you keep for life.

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to friends you’ll keep forever.

Classmates, teammates, roommates, teachers, dorm parents—they all become friends, and often the sort you keep for life.

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Mr. Peck has been at Holderness School for over 25 years, serving as a dorm parent, as a coach, as a history teacher, and as the Dean of Faculty before becoming Head of School in 2001. He also teaches in the summer at Columbia University’s Teachers College and is a former coach of the US Olympic Nordic team.

from the head of school What do I love about Holderness? What has kept me coming back for over 25 years as a teacher and coach and dorm parent, and now as the Head of School? I think it comes down to the fact that Holderness is not simply a school, it's a lifestyle— a lifestyle that celebrates a number of different things, and holds them all in a balance you’ll find nowhere else.

To live at Holderness is to be intellectually passionate and always curious; to be public-spirited and always attentive to the needs of others; to be physi-

cally active and always in touch with the outdoors; to be artistically creative and always conscious of the power of intuition and imagination; and to be aware, finally, of the spiritual dimensions of human experience.

Don Henderson, now retired, often quoted Robert Frost when he was teaching here. Don said that his object in living was to unite his avocation and his vocation “as my two eyes make one in sight.” As a legendary Holderness history teacher and a former coach of the US National Ski Team, Don knew how

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At the last Outdoor Chapel of every school year, seniors place a rock on the wall that surrounds the Chapel. It’s a symbolic act that links together past, present, and future members of the Holderness community.

to achieve that sort of vision. His work was full of playfulness, and he and other great teachers here have helped the whole community to live and work that way.

The different qualities of the Holderness lifestyle reinforce each other so naturally that they blend into one another. Mind and body and spirit direct themselves in unison to high achievement and an atmosphere of excellence—not the sort of excellence that is arrogant or pretentious, but rather is expressed in a humble sort of confidence.

That’s what makes life at Holderness rich and full, and also what keeps me coming back. It’s a recipe not only for success, but for the joyfulness a person finds in exercising all of his or her gifts.

R. Phillip Peck, Head of School

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Holderness is a tightly-knit community where everyone helps, everyone is needed, everyone has a name, and everyone is important.

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Within the context of a caring community, Holderness School fosters equally the resources of the mind, body, and spirit in each student, instilling in all the resolve to work for the betterment of humankind and God’s creation.

– Holderness School Mission Statement

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The South Side of campus offers small dormitory environments for boys and girls, each hosting between 8 and 16 students.

You could start with the numbers: 275 boys and girls, in grades nine through twelve, and 45 teachers and their families. That works out to a student-teacher ratio of less than 7:1. Add the location, amid the lakes and mountains of central New Hampshire while accessible to Boston. Assemble those students and teachers into a tightly-knit community where everyone helps, everyone is needed, everyone has a name, and everyone is important. Mix in the classrooms, the playing fields, the arts studios, the dormitories, and the outdoors, and you have a recipe for the sort of place where everyone can pick out a path to success.

Our academic program combines depth and breadth, preparing students for the challenges of college and a lifetime of curiosity and understanding. All dormitories are small (the biggest houses 18 students per floor, the smallest four), and a faculty member lives on each floor. Students and teachers eat cafeteria-style at Weld Hall for breakfast and lunch, and sit family-style for dinner several times each week. Each weekend a committee of faculty and students plans activities that include games, dances, films, trips, informal sports, or such outdoors activities as hiking, canoeing, or rock-climbing. get ac quainted L ď™Œ

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an Nowhere else do students play such an important role in the daily management of the school. In a unique balloting system that has existed at Holderness for over fifty years, student leaders are elected by all members of the community on the basis of dependability, initiative, fairness, and leadership.

Each junior or senior has an equal opportunity to become one of over sixty school, residential, or job crew leaders.

It’s a community of spirit as well, and also service.

Holderness was founded in 1879 as an Episcopal school, and it remains loyal to that heritage. As a result, Holderness supports, encourages, and nurtures the varying degrees and kinds of religious belief in its community. Students of all faiths are made to feel welcome in the Chapel of the Holy Cross. Catholic and Jewish students, if they prefer, are provided the means to worship elsewhere.

It’s a community in which each student plays an important part in the life of the school. No one can be stereotyped into any single role. You learn who you really are, and how easily that identity can be expanded, through a wide variety of challenges and a deep sense of belonging.

The school’s commitment to service is linked to both leadership and the human dimensions of spiritual experience. Students have opportunities throughout the year to take part in service projects that might be centered on campus as part of the Job Program, in the immediate area, or in another country. F

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Elena Bird ’13 exemplifies the type of balance we strive for here at Holderness, combining a place on the High Honor Roll with excellence on the USSA Eastern Skiing circuit, where she has found her way to the podium on numerous occasions. She also participates on the soccer and lacrosse teams, and has been a soloist in the chorus.

balance (one of our core values) We anchor our community in a reverence for all aspects of a young person’s potential: mind, body, and spirit. We hold these aspects in a dynamic balance, each as important as the other.

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The school’s academic program is intentionally challenging, geared to providing a strong preparation for selective colleges and universities, and laying the foundation for a lifetime of curiosity, inquiry, and learning. The program demands energy and hard work, and course selections are broad enough to accommodate each student’s interests, strengths, and pace of learning. Meanwhile faculty members—who model a healthy balance of mind, body, and spirit themselves—are always available to provide help, advice, or just friendly support.

12. The school offers AP courses spanning multiple disciplines, and encourages students to pursue an intellectual passion of their own in their twelfthgrade year as part of the Senior Honors Thesis program. The campus is connected to a variety of online research databases and the greater world via a wireless Internet connection accessible in all dormitories and academic buildings. The life of the mind is one facet of the Holderness Experience, a life enriched and reinforced by the lessons of the playing fields, the arts studios, the dormitories, and the outdoors. At Holderness the ablest students find themselves challenged, while those still finding their way learn to enjoy the journey on their way to new heights.

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The Lakes Region and White Mountains of New Hampshire provide not only a beautiful environment in which to work and play, but also a powerful natural laboratory for exploration and study.

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We celebrate intellectual achievement

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and nurture its catalysts—curiosity, passion, and initiative.

r Average Teaching Experience: 18 years r Faculty with Advanced Degrees: 2/3 r AP Courses: 13

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to your mind’s every possibility.

In the Holderness classroom each student is—literally—in the front row, with an average class size of twelve.

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FOR YOUR HOLDERNESS DIPLOMA, YOU’LL NEED THE FOLLOWING: FOUR YEARS OF r English THREE YEARS OF r Mathematics (including Algebra II and Geometry)

TWO CONSECUTIVE YEARS OF r The same foreign language

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semesters of history) ONE SEMESTER OF r Theology r Fine Arts

ONE TERM OF r Human Development

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First-Year program

The ninth-grade experience at Holderness prepares students for the responsibilities and challenges of independent school, while simultaneously bringing the class together around meaningful and powerful experiences. From Orientation Hike and the ninth-grade ropes course activity in the fall, to Project Outreach and a class excursion to Church Island on Squam Lake in the spring, students in the ninth grade build powerful bonds that last throughout their time at Holderness. From an academic perspective, all ninth-grade students take Western Civilization, a cross-curricular English/history course, introducing and reinforcing important study and research skills.

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Education needs to be about inspiring a commitment

Our goal at Holderness is not only to help our students get into a competitive college or university, but also to prepare them for success while there. Recent graduates have attended such competitive schools as:

to lifelong learning, to identifying and acting on a passion for learning, and by giving students the skills they need to not only get into a great college, but be successful there and in life as well.”

– Phil Peck, Head of School

r Amherst College r Bates College

r Middlebury College r Parsons School of Design

r Bucknell University r Colby College

r St. Lawrence University r George Washington

r Colorado College r Cornell University r Dartmouth College r Harvard University r Kenyon College

University r Princeton University r University of New Hampshire r University of Vermont r Williams College

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In almost every case, coaching at Holderness is provided by teachers who have competed with distinction in their respective sports.

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Because we believe athletics to be important to the exploration of a young person’s full potential, and also to an adult’s lifetime habits, at Holderness we provide programs that allow for the highest levels of participation at several levels of competition.

Every varsity program also operates at the junior varsity level. This means that each Holderness student receives dedicated training and coaching in as many as three sports per year, wears a Holderness uniform, and regularly represents the school in interscholastic competition. Nobody stands on the

sidelines. But neither is anybody in over their heads.

In almost every case, coaching is provided by teachers who have competed with distinction in their respective sports. But since they are also teachers and dorm parents and advisors, they know how to keep sports in their proper perspective. They teach their athletes how to work together and reach beyond themselves. They let the wins take care of themselves, and know how to use the losses as opportunities for improvement.

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for the ride of your life.

Nowhere else are such high levels of competition available in combination with such a powerful academic program.

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In 2010–11, 25 different members of the Holderness Eastern Alpine Team qualified in seven national, regional, and state championships.

The school’s 600 acres include a turf field, a fullyequipped athletic center, eight large playing fields, eight tennis courts, a covered artificial rink, and ten kilometers of Nordic ski trails that have been the site of national competitions. A short drive from campus, snow sports athletes train and compete in the USSA, USASA, and FIS circuits on the slopes of Cannon Mountain, Loon Mountain, or Waterville Valley.

At the varsity level in certain sports, Holderness has chosen to step up to a higher division, dominated by bigger schools, in order to provide suitable competition. But levels exist in all sports for students of whatever experience and talent to have fun. The school also provides alternatives to athletics for students who are more passionate about independent

study, public service projects, or honing their skills in the arts. Students in love with the outdoors may join the rock climbing and mountain biking program, utilizing several world-class facilities in the area. You don’t have to compromise or commit to just one definition of yourself; at Holderness we honor the full breadth of a young person’s potential.

Holderness snow sports programs are known both nationally and internationally. Nowhere else are such high levels of competition available in combination with such a powerful academic program.

But the same may be said for other Holderness athletic programs, which offer challenges suitable to all, and prepare the way for a lifetime of active living. F

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At Holderness, we believe an opportunity to play is an opportunity to learn.

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snow sports r Since 1940, the Holderness School snow sports program has

produced 15 Olympic athletes, 6 World Championship Team members, 15 Collegiate All-Americans, and 37 National Team members. r Holderness snowboarders have combined for twenty USASA national titles, and twice been members of the USASA World Junior Team. r Scott Nelson ’10 was the Eastern Slopestyle Champion, the Eastern Dual Mogul Champion, and the 2008, 2009, and 2010 USSA Junior Olympic Combined Champion. r In 2010–11, 25 different members of the Holderness Eastern Alpine Team qualified in seven national, regional, and state championships. They posted over 75 podium finishes, including a national championship title. Holderness racers won New Hampshire’s Macomber Cup series.

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Cross-country Field hockey Soccer Alpine skiing Basketball Eastern USSA alpine skiing Freeride Freestyle skiing Ice hockey Nordic skiing Rock climbing Ski jumping Snowboarding Cycling Golf Lacrosse Softball Tennis

Cross-country Football Soccer Alpine skiing Basketball Eastern USSA alpine skiing Freeride Freestyle skiing Ice hockey Nordic skiing Rock climbing Ski jumping Snowboarding Cycling Golf Lacrosse Baseball Tennis

athletic department goals r Cultivate the highest standards of

sportsmanship, fair play, teamwork, leadership, and self-discipline. r Expose students to a variety of athletic

experiences: competitive and non-competitive, team and individual. r Instill a love of sport and an appreciation of

the outdoors. r Encourage good health and physical fitness as

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as “The arts are the foremost expression of our civilization,” says Glenn Lowry, a Holderness alumnus and director of the world-famous Museum of Modern Art in New York City. “They comprise a complex language, one not just non-linear, but intuitive, and through which one learns to code and decode a vast amount of visual [and aural] information, as well as to think in new and different ways.”

At Holderness we agree that the arts represent both the best of human creativity and a language necessary for understanding today’s world. We also believe that the arts are no less important than academics and athletics in the exploration of each young person’s potential.

As the means to an end, the arts provide unparalleled opportunities for learning and practicing creativity, imagination, resourcefulness, and selfdiscipline. And as an end in themselves, the arts provide answers to the deepest questions of who we are.

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Holderness’s Carpenter Arts Center houses courses in the studio arts, ceramics, instrumental and choral music, music theory and composition, theater, and traditional and digital photography. Each offering is taught by an artist who is a successful and practicing professional in his or her field.

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recent theater productions r Grease (Spring, 2005) r One Acts – Dating (Fall, 2005) r Aida (Spring, 2006) r Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)

(Fall, 2006) r Free 2 Ride (Spring, 2007) r Buddhafest (Fall, 2007) r Godspell (Spring, 2008) r The Dining Room (Fall, 2008) r Chicago (Spring, 2009) r Rumors (Fall, 2009) r The Wiz (Spring, 2010)

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kathryn field, faculty

Poetry lives at Holderness. You can see it through

Kathryn Field was educated at Temple University’s Tyler School of Art and earned her Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of Wisconsin in Madison. She has taught sculpture and design at Ohio State University, and Washington University in St. Louis. Her work has been exhibited in galleries and museums throughout the Midwest and the East Coast. She executes commissions for public and private nonprofit institutions as well as for corporate and private collectors, and her paintings and sculpture are in numerous private collections nationwide. She has her home and studio in Sandwich, New Hampshire.

our participation in the national Poetry Out Loud contest in which students interpret and recite the poems of the greats. You can feel it in the celebrated artists we have had on our own stage including poets Galway Kinnell, Robert Bly, and Donald Hall, as well as notable performance artists such as Taylor Mali, Rives, Ishle Park, and Shihan the Poet.

The Carpenter Arts Studio offers a digital recording studio, a digital photography lab, a traditional darkroom, a ceramics studio and gas kiln, a studio for still-life and portrait photography, student gallery space, and more.

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As an end in themselves, the arts provide answers to the deepest questions of who we are.

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Holderness proudly participates in Poetry Out Loud, a national poetry recitation contest sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Poetry Foundation.

School concerts and drama productions take place in the 325-seat auditorium in the Hagerman Center, allowing students to perform for their peers and the public. The Hagerman Center also serves as a venue for School Nights, which showcase the work of visiting musicians, lecturers, or writers.

Students who are passionate in their pursuit of the arts can often arrange extra time to accomplish projects, or can continue with advanced levels of each discipline and receive help with portfolio preparation. The school’s Arts in the Afternoon program provides students with the

opportunity to pursue the arts as an alternative to sports one season each year; offerings have included ceramics, photography, dance, songwriting, and theater.

Good things happen when students work alongside top-drawer artists in a community where the arts, in one way or another, are part of everyday life. They learn not only to speak and understand the language of the arts, but how the arts can break down barriers—between people, and inside them. F

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get involved special programs service; Artward Bound, an exploration of one’s creativity and imagination; Out Back, an exhilarating experience challenging students in an outdoor setting; and the programs of Senior Honors Thesis and Senior Colloquium, both offering powerful and individualized learning experiences.

By far the most exciting time to be a Holderness student occurs in March, when the school begins its two-week period of Special Programs. Students, divided by graduating class, begin activities that address the lessons of the mind, body, and spirit in a very experiential way. And these are lessons that are woven into the fabric of the rest of the school’s curriculum, both academic and non-academic.

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Holderness ninth-graders travel to Philadelphia to embark on two service projects. As half the class works to maintain the physical environment of

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Philadelphia’s expansive Fairmount Park, the rest help to provide a healthy social environment for children in St. Barnabas Mission’s Butterfly Program. Halfway through the program, the students trade places, so ensuring a comprehensive service experience.

Participating in this program is a way of satisfying Holderness School’s graduation requirement in community service. It also serves to teach lessons about social responsibility and demonstrates the sense of satisfaction that comes from helping others.

arts with eight artists-in-residence for a period of uninterrupted creative work.

Each day, students work in a variety of artistic forms including improvisational theater, bookmaking, fused glass, photography, drawing, dance, painting, graphics, ceramics, papermaking, and blacksmithing. Through the program, students are pushed outside of their comfort zone to explore their creative side, all around a unifying theme for that year’s program.

out back artward bound Artward Bound, a nationally recognized visual and performing arts program, provides a unique opportunity for tenth-grade students to explore the

Out Back began in 1969 as part of the school’s commitment to the outdoors, and serves as a powerful expression of the school’s philosophy of simultaneous challenge and support. The junior class, after thorough instruction in safety techniques and ac-

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companied by two well-trained faculty leaders, disperse into the White Mountains for a challenging 11-day, outdoor camping experience. Generations of Holderness students have worked through their initial nervousness to find not only fun and success in Out Back, but feelings of warmth, pride, and belonging that last a lifetime.

senior honors thesis Senior Honors Thesis is a semester course in which participating seniors—using the academic tools cultivated over the course of their high school careers—engage in an area of particular interest and passion. In the spring, these students submit an academic paper and produce a public exposition.

Both tasks unite high-level scholarship with fieldwork and experiential learning completed during the Special Programs period.

senior colloquium Another group of students, all seniors, remain on campus to begin an intellectual experience known as Senior Colloquium. The students divide into small, seminar-style groups and begin a program of intensive study in subjects that range from the academic (classic American cinema, for example) to the technical (robotics or bridge engineering, for example).

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seven guiding principles of a senior honors thesis r A student’s personal interest or passion leads to an essential

question that directs the project. r There is research and directed learning in order to answer the

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scholarly paper, a high-quality performance, works of art, or another finished piece of high quality. r The final product is presented to a real audience that is

appropriate to the event.

We insist on involvement, and its corollary, a readiness to accept new challenges. We believe that effort and determination, even in the face of setbacks, prepare the way for success, and that such resolve is most available to those involved in a warm and supportive community.

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One the most unique and best things Holderness School offers is Special Programs. It’s a time to step outside of your comfort zone and learn new things about your friends and yourself.”

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stand up the environment With the White Mountains immediately to the north, and New Hampshire’s famous Lakes Region just to the south, no school in New England is so fortunate in its location as Holderness. Nor does any school take more seriously its responsibilities as a steward of its environment, and as a teacher of environmental citizenship.

Holderness is committed to LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification in its building practices. Recycling of renewable materials is one of the primary tasks of the student-led Job Program. The principles of environmental sustainability are applied to every facet of school life.

At the personal level, this means lots of fresh air—in outdoor sports and recreation, in the Job Program, and during Out Back—and preparation for a lifetime of outdoor living. It means a curriculum that stretches beyond classroom walls, one that forges connections between many different subject areas in its consideration of humanity’s place on earth.

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to our future on earth.

No school takes more seriously its responsibilities as a steward of its environment, and as a teacher of environmental citizenship.

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The beautiful White Mountains of New Hampshire provide yet another classroom for learning—be it in outdoor sports, recreation, or during Out Back.

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make connections advising At a time when more and more schools are parceling their various jobs to specialists, Holderness remains committed to “multiple points of contact”—that is, teachers who are also coaches, dorm parents, advisors, Out Back leaders, and more.

At Holderness the same person who requires a closer reading of a Toni Morrison novel in the morning may be that student’s soccer coach in the afternoon, dorm parent in the evening, and faculty advisor throughout the year.

every effort to know their students well, frequently inviting them into their homes for company, conversation, pizza, and fun.

But the advisor relationship is just a formal version of something that happens informally all the time at Holderness with the faculty. They seek out students and take an active interest in their apprehensions, ambitions, and dreams. In the end, they are much more than teachers. They are the friends and mentors who help in the realization of dreams. F

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to a friend on the faculty.

The same person who requires a closer reading of a Toni Morrison novel in the morning may be that student’s lacrosse coach in the afternoon.

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admission timeline r December: Preferred SSAT sitting. Register at:

www.ssat.org r January: Last date for SSAT. (In lieu of the SSAT, a

WISC IV taken within the past two years will be accepted.) r January 31: Filing deadline for Parent Financial Statement (PFS) for parents seeking financial aid with School and Student Service in Princeton. File at: www.nais.org/financialaid/sss.

r February 1: Deadline for applications. r February 15: All new or updated income tax

statements filed with Holderness. Business/form (SSS) filed with Holderness. r March 10: Notification of Admission Committee decisions. r First week of April: Second visit days. r April 10: Parents’ reply date to Holderness.

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come aboard admission Holderness looks for those who can benefit from what the school offers, and who can take part in— and contribute to—the life of the school. These are students of strong character, demonstrated scholastic ability, and the promise of achievement in several different areas.

Candidates for admission are urged to come visit the school. A visit provides the opportunity to have a student-led tour of Holderness and also a personal interview. Families can meet various members of the community, and prospective students can talk with students who are already at Holderness. All visits should be scheduled in advance by writing, or telephoning the Admission Office at 603-536-1747, or via e-mail at admission@holderness.org.

All candidates must take the Secondary School Admissions Test (ssat), preferably in December for admission the following September. A wisc taken within the past two years will be accepted in lieu of

the ssat. Requirements for admission should be completed and received at the school by February 1.

Incomplete applications cannot be guaranteed consideration before April 15. Notification of the Admission Committee’s decisions will be mailed on March 10. Accepted students are asked to reply in turn to Holderness by April 10.

The Holderness School does not discriminate on the basis of sex, race, religion, or national or ethnic origin in the administration of its educational policies, and scholarship, athletic, and other school programs. Indeed, we see multiple perspectives and experiences as vital to educational excellence and as a means of strengthening our community.

Grants for financial aid are allotted by the Financial Aid Committee to students on the basis of family need, potential, and character. Holderness subscribes to the principles governing financial aid established by the School and Student Service for Financial Aid in Princeton. F

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to a balance matched nowhere else.

At Holderness, you don’t have to compromise. You don’t have to commit to just one definition of yourself. You can explore. You can go on becoming.

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In addition to serving as our mascot, the Holderness Bull has instilled direction in the classroom and on the playing field since 1879.

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