Healthy Deerfield and the 2020/2021 School Year

Admission

Start your application
Step 1: Request a Viewbook
To learn about student life, academic breadth, financial aid, and the many opportunities available at Deerfield, please fill out our Request for Information form. We look forward to mailing you a viewbook.
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Step 2: Schedule an Interview
We look forward to speaking with you about Deerfield! At this time, we are unable to schedule on-campus visits. As an alternative, we are offering Zoom and Skype interviews for those applying for enrollment in the fall of 2021. We are happy to answer all of your boarding school questions and provide you with helpful virtual content to give you a sense of the Deerfield experience.
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Step 3: The Standardized Test
Standardized testing is one of many ways our admission team gets to know each prospective candidate and is a required aspect of the application process. Please do not hesitate to contact our office with any standardized testing questions.
Testing Requirements
Step 4: The Application
Our online application is provided by Gateway to Prep Schools and can be found online at gatewaytoprepschools.com. All application materials can be submitted directly via the Gateway site. Further information detailing the application process is available here.
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Step 5: Deerfield Admission Portal and Your Application Checklist
Once you have submitted your Application Part I: Candidate Profile you will receive a link via email providing you with access to the Deerfield Admission Portal. You will have the opportunity to submit additional application materials, complete required items and schedule an on-campus visit within your portal. Trouble accessing your Deerfield Admission Portal Account? If you need portal account instructions and your authentication code resent please click here.
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Admission Timeline

January 20

Information Sessions and Virtual Interviews available for Fall 2021 admission.

Sign up for an Information Session.

August - January

Schedule and take your standardized test.

Send out Gateway recommendation requests

January 15

Priority Application Deadline. Submit your completed application by this date.

Financial Aid Application Deadline. Submit the Parent Financial Statement and all required supporting documentation to solutionsbysss.com by this date.
School Code 2770

March 10

Notification of Deerfield’s admission and financial aid decisions.

April 10

Candidate reply date.

Get in touch with your Deerfield admission representative.

Find your representative

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Received Aid
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Saturday Classes
Girls 51%
Boys 49%
STUDENTS OF COLOR
Self Reported 42%
FOREIGN NATIONALS
14%

Tuition and Financial Aid

APPLY FOR FINANCIAL AID

“Deerfield’s commitment to affordability and access in the form of need-based financial aid is historic, deep, and central to its educational mission. It is founded on the idea—beautifully articulated over a century ago when Frank L. Boyden asked families to ‘pay what you can’—that the Deerfield Experience should be accessible to all young people of promise, regardless of means.”

—Head of School Dr. John P.N. Austin

Partnering With You

For more than 40 percent of prospective families, applying to Deerfield Academy also means applying for financial aid. Our Financial Aid Office works with families throughout the entire application process—and for those who enroll, throughout their Deerfield Experience. While the application process may initially intimidate some families, they soon learn that applying for financial aid is simple, streamlined, and completely confidential.

Tuition and fees cover the cost of academic instruction, room and board, athletics and arts programs, on-campus student activities, Macbook use and support, and the use of our campus health center.

Frequently Asked Questions

An interview is an important part of the application process. All candidates are required to interview by February 1. 

Deerfield offers a need-based financial aid program that includes full-need grants, which cover 98% or more of tuition costs and other fees, and middle-income grants, which vary in size. If you have specific questions regarding your financial aid application please contact the Financial Aid office.

For the 2020-2021 admission cycle Deerfield will allow students to apply without submitting standardized test scores. Students who do not submit test scores will not be penalized in the selection process as we will continue to evaluate each application using a holistic approach that considers students’ achievements and successes in relation to their individual opportunities and challenges. 

For those students able to access a standardized test we do recommend submitting scores and have created the following testing guidelines:

 
Ninth and Tenth Grade Applicants:
We will accept an SSAT, PSAT, or ISEE test taken after September 1, 2019  
 
Eleventh, Twelfth, and PG Applicants:
We will accept any SAT, ACT, PSAT, or SSAT that you have taken after September 1, 2019.  
 
International Students in a Non-English Speaking School: 
For international students who have not been in an English speaking school for at least three years, we require a TOEFL or IELTS exam.    

In GPS systems, you can use: 7 Old Main Street, 1 Albany Road, or 1 Academy Lane.

Deerfield accepts students for September enrollment only. Our priority application deadline for September 2021 enrollment is January 15, 2021.

We will make every effort to give full consideration to completed applications (including testing) received after January 15, however we cannot guarantee a March 10 notification.

Candidates who do not receive a March 10 notification are considered late candidates, and their chances for admission are limited by the number of spaces available after April 10. Late candidates should file their applications as soon as possible and call the Admission office to make an appointment to visit campus after April 15 for a tour and interview. The Admission Committee meets periodically throughout the spring to make decisions on this group of candidates.

Contact Admission Office

admission@deerfield.edu
413-774-1400
Fax 413-772-1129

Main School Building
Mon-Fri, 8:00am–4:30pm
Sat, 8:00am–12:00pm (Sept–Jan)

7 Boyden Lane, PO Box 65
Deerfield, MA 01342

 7 Boyden Lane, PO Box 87, Deerfield, MA 01342

NOTICE OF NONDISCRIMINATORY POLICY AS TO STUDENTS: Deerfield Academy admits students of any race, color, national and ethnic origin to all the rights, privileges, programs, and activities generally accorded or made available to students at the school. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.

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