Thank you for your interest in Saint Peter’s Prep. I know it can be an anxious time for both students and parents as you begin the admissions process: work on all of the required application items, prepare for the entrance exam, and try to visit different schools. And then once all of that hard work has been completed, there is the long wait for the decision letters.
While it may be a time filled with uneasiness or even worry for our applicants, for the folks in Admissions, it is an exciting time as we review the files of so many excellent students. I have been doing this for 25 years, and I am sometimes asked if it gets boring reading so many applications. I quickly reply, “Not at all.”
For me it is an honor to know that hundreds of outstanding young men want to make Prep their second home for the next four years. I always think, as I read the applications, that future student council members, talented actors, remarkable musicians, gifted artists, star athletes, and, of course, brilliant students are in that group of applicants. It is our job at Saint Peter’s Prep to find them and to help cultivate that greatness during their time here.
I look forward to reading your application and your essay, where you will have the chance to tell us about the gifts and talents you are going to bring to Prep.
John Irvine, ’83, P’11
Director of Admissions
201-547-6389
IrvineJ@spprep.org