Application Insights from Anyone?
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Please post any application insights from veteran families here -- timing, essay topics, things not to include, things to include, etc. Thanks from all the newbie families!

Testing Info.
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Remember to submit your testing exam applications soon!

Note: Your son/daughter should take the test twice if you're not sure which high school they will be attending -- once in New Hampshire (taken at BG), and the other at one of the Massachusetts high schools. You need to complete the exam form to request that they send the exam results to other high schools (and specifically request which schools by their codes) -- the cost is $24-$25 to take the exam.

If you don't take the test at BG, and you ask another high school to forward the results to BG, BG makes you fill out the exam application form and pay the $25 to them anyway. So your son/daughter might as well take it twice, since you're paying for it!

High School Web Sites
www.pelhamweb.org/highschool (Pelham High School)
www.dracut.k12.ma.us/dhs/dhs.htm (Dracut High School)
www.bghs.org (Bishop Guertin High School)
www.lowellcatholic.org (Lowell Catholic High School)
www.centralcatholic.net (Central Catholic High School)
www.ndatyngsboro.org (Notre Dame Academy)
www.pmamethuen.org (Presentation of Mary Academy)
www.austinprepschool.org (Austin Preparatory School)
www.andover.edu (Phillips Andover Academy)
www.brooksschool.org (Brooks School)

Bishop Guertin's Open House Dates
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BG is hosting guided school tours at two open houses:
First Open House: Sunday, October 16 at 1:00, 1:30, 2:30pm
Second Open House:
Wednesday, November 9 at 6:00, 6:30, and 7:00pm.

Entrance exams are held on Saturday, November 5, from 7:30am - 11:30am
and on Saturday, November 19, from 7:30am - 11:30am

Fee is $25. You need to request other schools you want it to be sent to -- need to check on sending it to schools in Massachusetts (Lowell Catholic, Central, etc.)