PRIVATE SCHOOL APPLICATION PROCESS

The School Counseling Department at Wellesley Middle School helps families expedite the private school process in the following ways :

•  Emailing transcripts to private schools.  

•  Completing recommendations through the platform parents choose (Ravenna, Gateway, Boston Shared Forms). 

Please note Students need to provide their own writing samples to private schools if required. Parent or guardian should encourage student to save samples prior to the application process, or retrieve previous samples.

Parents/Guardians, please complete the following  steps: 

1. Email Jennifer Suttill, counseling assistant to let her know that your student is applying to private school. suttillj@wellesleyps.org .

2. Complete the WMS Private School Release of Information form and have your student complete the WMS Student Activity form.

3. When initiating your private school application through Ravenna or other platforms, enter Jennifer Suttill's email suttillj@wellesleyps.org as the contact for the release form/transcript requests.  School Reports should be sent to the students Counselor.

4. The student should let their counselor, and teachers know that they are applying to private schools and will receive a recommendation request.

*IF your student is applying to multiple private schools that use different application platforms, WMS will have the student's counselor and teachers fill out our own WMS recommendation forms that we will submit to the private schools.

• Most private schools have a January 15th deadline. Due to December vacation, please submit the release form and student activity form to the counseling assistant suttillj@wellesleyps.org no later than December 11th. 

Important information about Recommendation Requests: 

• Teachers and counselors appreciate when students reach out to them and ask them to complete a recommendation

• Teachers and counselors need at least two weeks notice prior to completing recommendations

• The counseling department does not ask teachers or counselors to write recommendations during school vacation weeks or summer break. 

• Teachers write recommendations for their current students. 

Please direct questions to  Jennifer Suttill, administrative assistant, at 781-446-6235 ext. 5816, or via email suttillj@wellesleyps.org. If I can be of assistance, please do not hesitate to contact me. We appreciate you letting us know in the spring if your child will go to private school. If that is the case, we will ask you to complete withdrawal form  . 

Sincerely, 

Kate Mahoney, Department Head of School Counseling

mahoneyk@wellesleyps.org, 781-446-6235, ext. 5719