How to Apply

Our admissions team wants to learn about you as an individual, and about your family, too! Throughout the admissions process, we’ll ask questions that allow us to get to know what you dream about, what goals you’ve set, and who you want to become. We’ll also ask your teachers and other people who know you well for evaluations.

Step 1: Create a Ravenna Account 

Ravenna is our online, paperless admission system that helps families manage their child's applications to private and independent schools. It is our strong preference to receive applications and accompanying forms through Ravenna. Please contact us if applying online is not possible for you.

Step 2: Visit Campus 

Our school building is beautiful and we would love to invite your family into our teaching spaces. All students applying to L-Dub will have a student visit day where they will spend time learning about L-Dub. Registration for a campus visit must be booked through your Ravenna account. We also encourage you to attend an Open House, either on October 26th from 10 AM - 12 PM, or November 13th from 6 - 8 PM.

 

Step 3: Submit the Application

Submit online application to L-Dub through Ravenna. Ravenna guides families through the online application process—forms submissions, teacher evaluations, deadline tracking, application status, and decision notification. Students can apply to multiple schools using Ravenna (essays must be submitted separately). Applications for the 2025-2026 school year will open on September 1st, 2024. Applications for the 2024-2025 school year have closed. However, if you are interested in enrolling your student for the 2024-2025 academic year, please contact our Director of Admissions & Enrollment Management, Sarah Campbell-Harris, at [email protected]. 

 

Required Application Components 

Please make sure to review the application components below and submit all required components. 

Application form

Submit the online application to L-Dub through Ravenna. Ravenna guides families through the online application process—forms submissions, teacher evaluations, deadline tracking, application status, and decision notification. Students can apply to multiple schools using Ravenna. (Essays must be submitted separately.)

Application fee

A non-refundable fee of $75 must accompany the application, paid directly through Ravenna. If the application fee is a possible barrier to application, please call the Admissions Office at 206.709.3800 or email Sarah Campbell-Harris at [email protected].

Current Photo

Please include a recent student photo.

Student Visit Day

All students applying to L-Dub will visit school in-person and spend a day learning about L-Dub. Please register through Ravenna.

Teacher recommendations

Two teacher evaluations – one from the 5th grade core teacher and from a teacher who has taught the applicant within the last two years – are required. Please delegate teacher evaluations forms through Ravenna.

Parent/caregiver statement

This form is to be submitted through Ravenna.

Student essays and activity form

We request a hand-written student essay. Please complete each of the questions with a handwritten response, and mail to us at:

LWGMS Admissions | 2100 S Walker St | Seattle, WA 98144

The student activity form is to be submitted through Ravenna.

interview

Throughout January and February, each applicant and at least one parent/caregiver will participate in an interview. 

Confidential school report/Transcript request

L-Dub strongly prefers to receive all confidential school report/transcript forms electronically via Ravenna. LWGMS will accept hard copy transcripts directly mailed from an applicant's school to our school. We ask that you choose ONE method of delivery — either hard copy or electronic.

Please use the PSIS Transcript Request form on Ravenna.

Optional Application Components 

The below components are optional.

Personal Recommendation

L-Dub will accept an optional additional reference letter from an adult (tutor, coach, instructor, etc.) who knows your daughter in a unique capacity or who may share additional insights may also be submitted. Please send personal recommendation letters via email to Sarah Campbell-Harris.

Supplemental Information

Please feel free to email or mail hardcopies of any additional test scores, artwork, writing samples, awards, or other information that will help us get a clearer overall picture of the applicant. Please do not send original artwork that you want returned.

LWGMS Admissions | 2100 S Walker St | Seattle, WA 98144

Test scores

L-Dub will not require standardized testing (ISEE or SSAT). Members of the admissions committee will not have access to any ISEE or SSAT results, even from applicants who choose to take a test and submit their scores.

Nondiscriminatory Policy
Lake Washington Girls Middle School admits students (who identify as girls) of any race, religion, national or ethnic origin, sexual identity, or family composition. It does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, national or ethnic origin, sexual identity, or family composition in administration of its educational policies, admission policies, scholarship programs, athletic, co-curricular, or other school-administered programs.