Link uses specific criteria in considering and evaluating applications. In making our decisions, we aim to keep the following considerations in mind:

• Take a roughly equal number of students from three levels of academic achievement:
  • a) below grade level
  • b) at grade level
  • c) above grade level

• Maintain an equal male/female ratio
  

• Provide opportunities for students whose family resources do not readily allow academic alternatives

Some of the student characteristics we look for include:

• Students who demonstrate a clear need and desire to benefit from Link’s education
  • academically
  • developmentally
  • socially

• Students whose potential has not been realized or whose potential is surfacing and would benefit from small classes       and a small learning community
  

• Students who live in Newark as well as students from surrounding urban cities
  

• Students who have parents who show a commitment to being involved with the active life of the school and who will be     supportive of the high expectations of Link