Anonymous
11/11/2025 21:42
Subject: Do Catholic high schools require you upload a baptismal certificate?
LOL
My kids were recruited by coaches at Catholic HS's in the DMV. We are Jewish none asked for any certificate.
Soccer and Lax. LOL
My kids were recruited by coaches at Catholic HS's in the DMV. We are Jewish none asked for any certificate.
Soccer and Lax. LOL
Anonymous
11/11/2025 21:40
Subject: Do Catholic high schools require you upload a baptismal certificate?
Yes and attendance reports from mass. If you’re able to get a ledger of your church tithes that helps too.
What a ridiculous question OP.
What a ridiculous question OP.
Anonymous
11/11/2025 21:39
Subject: Do Catholic high schools require you upload a baptismal certificate?
The answer is no. A school like SJC is like 35%+ non-Catholic.
Anonymous
11/11/2025 21:05
Subject: Do Catholic high schools require you upload a baptismal certificate?
Anonymous wrote:The baptismal certificate parents receive after the ceremony is more in the nature of a keepsake. The official record typically is held at the parish where the baptism occurred. If you contact them they will issue a copy should one be required for school. If the parish no longer exists contact the relevant (arch) diocese to find out who now has the records.
+1. If your child was baptized in a Catholic Church, this is how you get the certificate. FWIW, though, Gonzaga does not ask for a copy and I don’t think DJO does either, although both ask whether you’re Catholic and for the name of your parish. If your DS is receiving sacraments at your church, they also would have likely asked for a copy and should be able to give you one if you need it for one of these schools.
Anonymous
11/11/2025 20:34
Subject: Do Catholic high schools require you upload a baptismal certificate?
The baptismal certificate parents receive after the ceremony is more in the nature of a keepsake. The official record typically is held at the parish where the baptism occurred. If you contact them they will issue a copy should one be required for school. If the parish no longer exists contact the relevant (arch) diocese to find out who now has the records.
Anonymous
11/11/2025 20:28
Subject: Do Catholic high schools require you upload a baptismal certificate?
The word is kerfuffle. Only one L.
Anonymous
11/11/2025 19:56
Subject: Do Catholic high schools require you upload a baptismal certificate?
Not getting th kerfluffle comment. Was your child actually baptized? If it's just that you lost the certificate, you can get a new one from the Parish where the baptism occurred.
Anonymous
11/11/2025 19:39
Subject: Do Catholic high schools require you upload a baptismal certificate?
We did not have to but we were applying from a Catholic K-8 that did have our records, so that could be why.
Anonymous
11/11/2025 19:23
Subject: Do Catholic high schools require you upload a baptismal certificate?
What does this mean?
There is no way to be “almost” baptized. Either you are or you aren’t. It’s like being a little pregnant.
If your children are baptized, you are able to get the certificate from the parish or diocese. If your children aren’t baptized, then your only option is to get them baptized.
There is no way to be “almost” baptized. Either you are or you aren’t. It’s like being a little pregnant.
If your children are baptized, you are able to get the certificate from the parish or diocese. If your children aren’t baptized, then your only option is to get them baptized.
Anonymous
11/11/2025 19:17
Subject: Do Catholic high schools require you upload a baptismal certificate?
Anonymous wrote:Elementary schools require the baptismal certificate because they do sacrament prep.
High schools don’t so you just write down Catholic. At least in my experience.
I seem to recall having to upload baptismal certificates for Catholic High Schools.
Anonymous
11/11/2025 18:52
Subject: Do Catholic high schools require you upload a baptismal certificate?
Anonymous wrote:Is the kerfluffle remediable? Aren't there parish records?
Your child will need the baptismal certificate if they want to be married in the Church someday.
Anonymous
11/11/2025 18:46
Subject: Do Catholic high schools require you upload a baptismal certificate?
Is the kerfluffle remediable? Aren't there parish records?
Anonymous
11/11/2025 18:10
Subject: Do Catholic high schools require you upload a baptismal certificate?
Elementary schools require the baptismal certificate because they do sacrament prep.
High schools don’t so you just write down Catholic. At least in my experience.
High schools don’t so you just write down Catholic. At least in my experience.
Anonymous
11/11/2025 18:08
Subject: Do Catholic high schools require you upload a baptismal certificate?
Anonymous wrote:We are Catholic, contributing members of a parish, but do not have a baptismal certificate due to a kerfluffle when DC was younger. Should we list 'Catholic' as our religion on the application if we don't have the certificate? Do the high schools require you to upload it?
We live in DC and are applying to:
Gonzaga
SJC
DJO (Bishop O'Connell)
Our Lady of Good Counsel in Olney MD
Dematha
When we applied to our parish school years ago, this was an issue I think, but I haven't thought about it again until now.
Didn’t you need a baptismal certificate for your child to go through first communion and confirmation?
If he hasn’t gone through those sacraments I don’t think he’d be considered a practicing Catholic for high school admissions purposes. If he has completed them and it’s just a case of a lost baptismal certificate they should be able to figure out a work around for you with proof of the other sacraments.
Anonymous
11/11/2025 17:57
Subject: Do Catholic high schools require you upload a baptismal certificate?
We are Catholic, contributing members of a parish, but do not have a baptismal certificate due to a kerfluffle when DC was younger. Should we list 'Catholic' as our religion on the application if we don't have the certificate? Do the high schools require you to upload it?
We live in DC and are applying to:
Gonzaga
SJC
DJO (Bishop O'Connell)
Our Lady of Good Counsel in Olney MD
Dematha
When we applied to our parish school years ago, this was an issue I think, but I haven't thought about it again until now.
We live in DC and are applying to:
Gonzaga
SJC
DJO (Bishop O'Connell)
Our Lady of Good Counsel in Olney MD
Dematha
When we applied to our parish school years ago, this was an issue I think, but I haven't thought about it again until now.