NHASA admits students of any race, color, sexual orientation, 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, sexual orientation, national and ethnic origin in administration of its educational policies, admissions policies, scholarship and loan programs, and athletic and other school-administered programs.

Admissions Procedure
• Interested students will complete all forms in the Application Packet and pay a mandatory, non-refundable application fee of $50.

• All applications will be reviewed by the Admissions Committee.

• NHASA uses a rolling admissions procedure. We shall begin considering applications on April 1st for the proceeding fall semester and will continue to accept applications throughout the year creating a file of applicants.

• All applications will be reviewed by the Admissions Committee.

• Students will be notified via email if they have been accepted for an interview.

• Students accepted for an interview must call and schedule an interview with the Admissions Committee within 2 weeks of their notice of acceptance.

• Letters of acceptance to our school will be sent via email and, from that date, the applicant has 2 weeks to turn in their Agreement Form.

• A notice will be placed on our website when enrollment has been filled for the particular semester.

• If space is no longer available, students who would be accepted if space was available will be placed on a waiting list and will be notified that they are on the waiting list.

• Waiting list students need to reapply for the following year if they have not yet been accepted into NHASA.

Financial Expenses
Costs for the 2010-2011 school year are as follows:
Tuition:                $   9,500 
Transportation:     $     485
Books                  $       240
Laboratory Fees   $     100 
Art Fees               $     100
Tech Fee              $       75 
TOTAL                $10,500

We will also require that parents do one of the following:
- make a $1500 donation by mid-year, or
- commit to no fewer than 4 Parent-Fundraiser meetings/year and work no fewer than 15 hours in making an honest and sincere effort to raise a minimum of $1500 each for the year.

Directions on Making Payments
• A $1,000 payment must accompany the NHASA Agreement Form and Student Conduct Code form. This amount will be applied to the applicant’s tuition.
• Half the tuition plus all other fees are due 3 weeks prior to the first day of the fall term classes.
• The remaining tuition is due 3 weeks prior to the first day of classes for the second semester.
• $2,500 fundraising amount is due no later than May 31, 2011. If all the money has not been raised, the family is responsible for the difference.
• Payments must be made in one of the following approved ways:
 Personal check drawn from a local bank
 Cashiers check
 Bank check
• Checks are to be made out to NHASA.
• A $50 non-refundable processing fee will be charged for any returned check.
• We highly recommend that all students come to NHASA with a laptop computer.