RETIRED Frequently Asked Questions

The admission application process begins the year before a student would like to enter Harpeth Hall. If you are looking to begin at Harpeth Hall in the fall of 2019, your process begins in September of 2018, and your application is due on or before January 7, 2019.

Inquiring online is the best way to begin the admission process at Harpeth Hall. This ensures we have your current contact information and allows you to receive communication from the Admission Office. Inquire here.

Join us on Sunday, November 4 for Admission Preview Day for prospective students and their families. Registration begins at 1:30 p.m., and the program begins at 2:00 p.m. This is a great way to tour the campus as a family and to hear about our programs from students and faculty. During your student-led tour, you might take advantage of time to visit with faculty and coaches or perhaps hear more about various student co-curricular activities, Winterim, S.E.E.K., College Counseling, or our service learning program. Admission Preview Day is your day to have one-on-one conversations in areas where you have specific interests and learn about Harpeth Hall as a family. Visitors will hear from the Head of School and meet the Division Directors, faculty, coaches, and students.

The required current math and current English teacher recommendation letters are very helpful to the Admission Committee as it seeks to build a cohesive and diverse group of girls each year. However, teacher recommendations are only one part of an applicant’s file. The committee takes into account all pieces of an admission file to assess if a student will be well-served by Harpeth Hall.

Recommendations are to be completed by the current math and current English teachers either electronically using the link provided in the admission portal or printed, completed, sealed and returned directly to Harpeth Hall on or before January 25, 2019.

Please contact the Office of Admission and Financial Aid at 615-346-0126 if your school does not provide teacher recommendations.

Additional letters of recommendation are not necessary.

Standardized test scores from the Independent School Entrance Exam (ISEE) are helpful to the Admission Committee as it seeks to build a cohesive and diverse group of girls. However, test scores are only one part of an applicant’s file. The Committee takes into account all pieces of an admission file to assess if a student will be well-served by Harpeth Hall. ISEE scores are due on or before January 25, 2019. Harpeth Hall discourages any test prep prior to taking the ISEE.

Each year the Admission Office receives more applications than there are spaces available, so we strongly encourage prospective families to apply to more than one school.

Applicants with a complete file are admitted, placed on the wait list, or denied. Students initially placed on the wait list have the option to remain on the wait list until a space becomes available or decline a place on the wait list. Should a space becomes available, the Admission Committee considers all of the students who have chosen to remain on the wait list.

For the 2018-19 school year, there are 700 total students, 300 in the middle school and 400 in the upper school.

In 2000, Harpeth Hall became the first school in Middle Tennessee to initiate a laptop program. The school has a state of the art wireless network, innovative classroom tools, and a variety of software to support this program. Students use school owned laptops and pay a technology fee each year. Harpeth Hall provides need-based financial aid for technology fees.

Middle school tuition is $30,385, and upper school tuition is $30,815. Financial aid is available. Seventeen percent of Harpeth Hall students receive need-based financial aid. For more information on tuition and fees, financial aid and tuition payment plans, visit the Tuition & Financial Aid page.