If you are a prospective Trafalgar student, family member, or friend, Kelly Carrier will be your main Admissions contact at the school.
Kelly joined the Trafalgar staff, working with parents, alumnae, and other community members in the school's Advancement Office.
A mother herself, Kelly admires how Trafalgar’s caring, nurturing environment helps girls to develop into confident, capable, and community-minded professional women.
Our helpful student, parent, and alumnae ambassadors are always ready to give tours, answer questions, and provide an “insider’s view” on all things Traf. They are an integral part of Traf’s Admissions team.
Trafalgar teachers are at the ready throughout the Admissions process! From speaking passionately about their areas of expertise when families come to visit, to organizing special activities that help them to get to know each and every applicant, these dedicated professionals help to ensure that girls and young women will find the place that they truly belong.
Our name says it all: at Trafalgar School, we are FOR Girls.
For more than 130 years, we have been bringing out the best in girls and young women, who go on to lead lives of joyful purpose.
Our teachers delight in finding the spark that is in each and every one of their students, igniting a fire that will burn for a lifetime.
To ensure these educators have access to the latest research and to insights from colleagues at girls’ school around the globe, Trafalgar is a member of the National Coalition of Girls’ Schools (NCGS). They regularly attend NCGS workshops and conferences, sharing their excitement about what they have learned there with colleagues and students upon their return.
We make the process easy for you!
We are happy to receive applications at any time of the year. Please begin by filling out the inquiry form below.
*Please note that in order to attend Trafalgar, students require a Certificate of Eligibility for Instruction in English. Completing this inquiry form will help us to assess your file for Eligibility.
Every school wants to admit students who will thrive in their learning environment; every student and her family should want the same thing.
How can we meet this shared goal? Research in the field provides valuable insights.
According to an article published in the Journal of Educational Psychology, when Admissions staff take into account the results of report cards and self-assessment rather than test scores alone, they are able to improve their ability to predict a student’s success in their milieu by a factor of three.
Why? Because report cards and reference letters typically reflect a students’ academic abilities and the “soft skills” she has developed over a period of years, whereas standardized tests measure memorization and analytical skills, as demonstrated at the time the test is written.
As for self-assessment, according to a Yale University researcher, when students themselves reflect on their ability to manage their time, their academic success in relation to their own efforts, and their need for intrinsic or extrinsic academic motivation, they are surprisingly accurate.
At Trafalgar School for Girls we have devised an innovative admissions assessment process that is informed by this research, and grounded in best practices.
At the core of this process is our assessment team, composed of both Admissions staff and teachers. They thoroughly review each applicant’s previous report cards, and reference letters. They also consider her responses to a self-assessment questionnaire. Finally, these expert educators observe students in experiential learning sessions, and discuss their observations as a team afterwards. Their goal is to identify those aligned with our school’s vision, mission, and guiding principles.
We are delighted with the results we are seeing since we launched our Comprehensive Admissions Assessment process, and look forward to working with more researchers and our knowledgeable educators as we continue to put best practices into practice.
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