Write your answers to three questions about why a year at SMUS would be The Best School Year Ever. Get some advice on your entry.
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Complete and submit the entry form by December 1, 2025. Be sure to answer all of the questions and to include your two most recent report cards.
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We will notify semi-finalists on December 15, 2025 that they are moving on to the next stage of the contest.
Semi-Finalist Stage
Step 1:
Make your own video. In 2-3 minutes show us what makes you unique. Show us your passions and how you will make the most of the opportunity to live and study at St. Michaels University School.
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Share your finished video with us by January 12, 2026. You can upload it to the video platform of your choice or send us the file directly. We will include more details in the email sent to semi-finalists on how to submit your video.
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When you submit your video, your parents or guardians will also need to complete the official application to the school. We will send instructions to all semi-finalists explaining the process.
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We will notify finalists February 2, 2026 that they have won one of the four scholarships up to $80,000, and are moving on to the final stage of the contest which involves an interview in person at SMUS.
Only citizens of Canada (excluding Quebec) or the United States are eligible to enter. You must also be 13 or older at the time of entry and born between July 1, 2008 and December 1, 2012. For more information, please read the complete Terms and Conditions.
Step 1:
Visit SMUS in person with your parents for a tour, Q&A with past winners, and most importantly, an interview with the Admissions team.
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On or by March 31, 2026, the recipients of the grand prize (scholarships up to $80,000) and winners of the two $60,000 scholarships will be announced!
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In September 2026, your Best School Year Ever begins at SMUS!
Last week Theatre Company 1 put on a high school play within a play within a play. “Trap” was written by Stephen Gregg and is a one-act play featuring the strange events of a high school play in Menachap, California, where the entire audience inexplicably falls unconscious.
Head of School, Dr. Aitken, has been working on a special project with this year’s Kindergarten classes but like most collaboration projects, all good things take time! Can’t wait to show you 👋
Aysha Emmerson ’18 returned to SMUS in 2022 while midway through her undergraduate thesis at Harvard, spending the summer working in boarding here as a houseparent – a moment we described then as “working her way back home.”
When we caught up with her again this spring, we learned just how far her journey has taken her since: from Capitol Hill to Oxford University, to local MP Elizabeth May’s constituency office, and most recently, to the floor of the United Nations Environment Assembly in Nairobi.
