Arts Academy in the Woods: Application

Any resident of Michigan is eligible to attend Arts Academy in the Woods tuition free. On the application form, you are asked to prioritize your interests in the Arts Areas and select as many of the five areas as you wish. You will be placed according to your preferences, as space is available. After acceptance and registration, an audition is required for placement into the arts classes, and placement tests will be given for the academic areas.

Each of the Arts Areas will be assigned a maximum number of students that may be enrolled in that discipline. As soon as the maximum number for any discipline has been reached, that area is closed and no further students will be accepted in that area.

There is a series of deadlines for accepting students. When a deadline is reached, and an Arts Area is not filled, students will be accepted into that area of the Academy. If an Arts Area has more applicants than spaces available at the registration deadline, students will be selected by lottery in that area. After that deadline, only the remaining slots will be considered for future students until the next deadline. Students will continue to be accepted after each deadline only for the available spaces.

Registration Requirements

Step One: Student Registration

Parents and students interested in enrolling in Arts Academy in the Woods must complete the student registration form and receive an academic and art class placements packet.

The student registration form includes:

Student/Parent Information page
Student Art Interest page
Student essay
Student/Parent agreement page
Two letters of reference
Records request page
Affirmation of Prior Discipline Record page
Media Request page
Statement of varicella

Along with the registration form, we require the following additional materials:

Copy of the Student’s Birth Certificate
Copy of the Student’s Immunization Record
Transcript for incoming 10th – 12th graders or 7th grade final report card and 8th grade current report card for incoming 9th graders.

The student registration form and academic and art class placements packet are available in the main office or you can download them from the school website. Completed registration forms and other paperwork may be turned in to the main office by person, mail, or fax. Only when the completed student registration form and the three additional materials are on file in the office will the student be considered officially enrolled at Arts Academy in the Woods.

Step Two: Academic and Art Class Placements

The academic placement consists of testing in science, math, and English (10th - 12th graders only take the English portion). This test will be used to place the student in the correct level of academic classes. The art class placement is used to place the student in the correct level of art class. Students are required to sign up for an art placement for every art class they wish to take.

Step Three: Scheduling

The scheduling step is an appointment with the student, parent, and a member of our scheduling team. Depending on your grade level, scheduling appointments will last five - fifteen minutes, and in most cases can be completed on the same day as the academic and art class placements.

Placement Dates For September 2010 Admittance

Friday, May 7
Friday, June 25
Friday, August 13
Friday, August 27
Thursday, September 2
Friday, September 10 (late start)
Friday, September 17 (late start)

Full Enrollment Procedure

In the case where AAW enrollment has reached capacity a wait list will be created. Students who are not able to enroll in AAW because it is full, will be wait listed for the beginning of the next semester's enrollment. The student will be assigned a number in order of his/her application completion and submission (Step One).

Application Materials

You can download the required application forms here:

If you are having trouble downloading any of these forms, please email the webmaster and we'll email the file as an attachment. You can also arrange a time to pick them up by calling (586) 294-0391. Return the completed registration form to:

Arts Academy in the Woods
Admissions
32101 Caroline Street
Fraser, MI 48026

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