Boarding/Independent High Schools

SSAT (Secondary School Admissions Test): The gold standard for private school admission testing since 1957, the SSAT is available in three testing formats.

1. Paper

2. SSAT at Home

3. Prometric: with fee waivers and accommodations to make the assessment accessible to as many students as possible. 

SSAT WEBSITE: https://www.ssat.org/

Fee Waiver Eligibility

To receive an SSAT fee waiver from an EMA member school or organization, students must meet any of the following eligibility criteria:

• Annual household income is less than 150 percent of the poverty threshold or the poverty guideline set by their country of residence or is less than 60 percent of the median household income for their country of residence.**

• The student is an orphan, a ward of the state, or homeless.

• The student is enrolled or eligible to participate in a government-subsidized food program or school-lunch program based on household income.

• The student is living in government-subsidized housing based on their household income.

Please note:

• Fee waiver eligibility is not predetermined by a family’s financial need for tuition assistance.

• **For states, provinces, or regions with a high cost of living or varying thresholds, it is acceptable to use available local data to make this determination.

• Students don't have to meet the fee waiver eligibility requirements to request an Equity Tech Kit.

• SSAT fee waivers are not available directly from EMA, the provider of the SSAT.