Please register [boy’s name] via our online portal and pay the £450 registration fee on or before 1 January of Year 7 (the academic year of his 12th birthday). Please visit our Year 9 entry page for more information about the registration process. 

We would recommend registering [boy’s name] as soon as possible as testing sessions and offers are made on a rolling basis.  

The advice provided here is valid as of November 2025. Please note that the admissions process is subject to change, so we advise parents to keep up to date with the process regularly via our website. 

We will request a confidential reference from [boy’s name]’s current school immediately after registration. 

[Boy’s name] should sit the ISEB Common Pre-Test as soon as possible after registration. Please visit the ISEB website for more information on the test and how to register [boy’s name]. 

If [boy’s name] reaches the required standard in the ISEB Common Pre-Test and we have received a strong supporting reference, we will request a hand-written CV and invite him to the Harrow Test. The Harrow Test for Late Applicants will place on one of three sessions - the September or January of his Year 7 or the September of his Year 8, depending on when he applied. 

The Harrow Test consists of one 20-minute interview with a House Master, a 60-minute computerised English and Maths assessment, and a 20-minute classroom-based group activity. 

*The Harrow Test for Late Applicants take place on one of three sessions - the September or January of his Year 7 or the September of his Year 8, depending on when he applied. 

Late October / Early November [insert year] onwards* 

Having completed the Harrow Test, an applicant receives one of the following results: 

• [boy's name] has a House Place at the School (conditional on sitting Common Entrance or performing well in our Academic Scholarship examinations in Year 8). 

• [boy's name] has a Guaranteed Place at the School (conditional on sitting Common Entrance or performing well in our Academic Scholarship examinations in Year 8) with his House to be allocated at a later date. 

• [boy’s name] has been placed on our waiting list. 

• [boy’s name]’s application will not be taken any further. 

*If [boy’s name] attends the Harrow Test in January of Year 7 or September of Year 8, offers will be sent out in due course following these assessments.  

If [son’s name] is successful in obtaining a House Place, he will be invited to meet with his prospective House Master and will have a tour of his prospective House. An applicant holding a Guaranteed Places will be allocated a House at a later date (usually in Year 8), after which a visit can be arranged directly with his House Master. 

*If [boy’s name] attends the Harrow Test in January of Year 7 or September of Year 8, visits will be arranged for boys who have been offered a House Place in due course following these assessments.  

We hold Experience Harrow days in the Summer term of Year 7 for boys holding offers of places with us. There are also regular opportunities for boys and families to attend scheduled School events throughout Years 7 and 8. 

We offer the following scholarship awards: Academic, Sport, Drama, Music, Art, and Design Technology & Engineering.   

Scholarship assessments take place by invitation only. To determine whether [Boy’s name] is eligible to apply for a Scholarship, please get in touch with the applicable Head of Subject below for each scholarship discipline:  

• Art – Miss E Stokes, scholarships@harrowschool.org.uk  

• Design Technology and Engineering (DTE) – Mr T Knight, scholarships@harrowschool.org.uk  

• Drama – Mrs G Jervis, scholarships@harrowschool.org.uk  

• Music – Mr D Woodcock, music@harrowschool.org.uk 

• Sport – Mr E Higgins (acting), sportscholarships@harrowschool.org.uk 

• Academic – Please see further information below 

If [Boy’s name] is interested in applying for an Academic scholarship, we will need prior recommendation from his school, ideally from his current Head Teacher. Please ask them to email the admissions office via admissions@harrowschool.org.uk. Boys invited to sit Academic Scholarship exams will be identified during the admissions process and will only be allowed to sit these exams with the recommendation of their current school. 

It will also be necessary for the application to be approved by the relevant Head of Subject at Harrow. Once the Head of Subject for the relevant discipline has approved your son’s initial application for a scholarship, we will email you directly with details regarding the next steps.  

All of our scholarship assessments take place during the Spring term (January - March) of Year 8, with the exception of our Sport Scholarship assessments, which take place in November of Year 8. For further information on the scholarships we offer, what to expect on the assessment days, and access to our Academic Scholarship past papers, please visit our scholarships page. 

Please note that achieving a scholarship carries a 5% fee remission. Scholarships are separate from our means-tested bursaries, which are funds which might allow a boy to come to Harrow if parents are unable to afford the fees. Please see further information on our bursaries here and contact the Access team at accessteam@harrowschool.org.uk for all requests relating to 100% or close to 100% fee support to attend Harrow School. 

All places offered at Harrow are conditional on boys sitting Common Entrance (CE) in June of Year 8. While there is no pass mark for CE as such, the results that a boy achieves will be used to determine the initial sets into which he will be placed when he arrives at Harrow. A boy who performs well in the Academic Scholarship examinations is unlikely to be required to sit the CE examinations. For more information on Common Entrance papers and requirements, please visit section 7 on our Year 9 entry page here. 

Boys preparing to join Harrow are invited to a New Boys Welcome Afternoon in June of Year 8, around which time they receive all the important information about life at Harrow, including further details about uniform and equipment. There will also be an opportunity to meet their House Master and House team once again, along with some current boys from their House and the other new boys who will be joining the House with them in two months’ time. 

Please register [boy’s name] via our online portal and pay the £450 registration fee on or before the first Monday in January of Year 11 (the academic year of his 16th birthday). Please visit our Year 12 entry page for more information about the registration process. Please note that [boy’s name] will have to prepare the following documents prior to registration:

• a curriculum vitae (CV)
• a letter to the Head Master of Harrow School detailing why he wishes to become a Harrovian and what he would bring to the School
• his latest school report (end of Year 10 report)

The advice provided here is valid as of October 2025. Please note that the admissions process is subject to change, so we advise parents to keep up-to-date with the process regularly via our website. 

We request a confidential reference from [boy’s name]’s current school in January of Year 11.

[Boy’s name] will sit tests in two of his four chosen A-Level subjects at his current school. If [boy’s name] is unable to sit the tests at his current school, please contact the admissions team via admissions@harrowschool.org.uk

If [boy’s name] is shortlisted having performed strongly in his first two exams, he will be invited to an assessment day at Harrow. On this day, [boy’s name] will sit papers in his remaining two chosen A-Level subjects in addition to having interviews with the members of the Senior Management Team and the Registrars. 

Year 12 late applicant assessment results are released via email by the end of March in Year 11.