Cardin Admissions Process

Shalom. Thank you for considering an application to The Shoshana S. Cardin School, Baltimore’s Independent Jewish High School. We invite you to get to know our wonderful community - our incredible faculty, our diverse student body – and see for yourself how this young, pluralistic Jewish high school is preparing our students to be educated Jewish adults. The Shoshana S. Cardin School is committed to providing a first-rate secular and Jewish education to those who have attended day schools, and also to those from public or secular independent schools who may or may not know Hebrew.

We are always available to answer your questions and guide you through the admissions cycle. We encourage you and your family to visit Cardin to see our classes in action, meet our students, discover our first-class faculty, and learn all the benefits of a Cardin education. Please call 410-585-1400, or contact Cheryl Taragin, Director of Student Recruitment and Alumni Relations, via email at ctaragin@shoshanascardin.org.

To get started, please follow these steps:

Contact us to request an admissions package and to arrange for your personal information session and tour of our school.
Schedule a shadow date for your child where he/she can attend classes, meet current students, and have an Admissions interview.
Register for the Independent School Entrance Examination (ISEE). This test will be given at The Shoshana S. Cardin School on Sunday, December 11, 2011, or may be taken at many other AIMS (Association of Independent Maryland and D.C. Schools) schools in the Baltimore area. It is easy to register online by visiting the ISEE website.
Complete our application and return it to The Shoshana S. Cardin School. Families who complete the application by January 13, 2012 are guaranteed to be notified of admission status by February 15, 2012 (the Association of Independent Maryland and DC Schools earliest notification date). The completed application must include:

Application
$75 non-refundable application fee payable to: The Shoshana S. Cardin School.
ISEE score report (scores can be reported directly to our school by indicating our school number, 211209, on the registration sheet).
Academic transcript from your current school
English teacher recommendation form
Math teacher recommendation form
Jewish Professional recommendation form
Request for Records
Photograph of student

We look forward to meeting you and working with you over this year.