Year 9 Entry

A standard applicant who will not be applying for a scholarship or bursary to come to Harrow should, ideally by the end of Year 5, but definitely by 1 May of Year 6:

• complete the Year 9 online registration process. You will first be asked to create an account, then to complete the registration form and finally to make an online payment of the non-refundable Registration Fee of £350.

An applicant at school in Hong Kong should register with Ms Battie Fung at Academic Asia in Hong Kong.

An applicant at school in mainland China should register with UK Boarding Schools Admissions Service. Tel: 0086 (0) 21 3165 1368 www.ukboardingschools.org.uk

Please contact these representatives for details of our admissions process in these locations.

An applicant who wishes to apply for a scholarship but would accept a place irrespective of receiving one, should ideally by the end of Year 5:

• complete the Year 9 online registration process. You will first be asked to create an account, then to complete the registration form and finally to make an online payment of the non-refundable Registration Fee of £350. 

An applicant who would only accept a place at Harrow on receipt of a means-tested bursary can either:

• complete the Scholarship and Bursary Application Form below and return it, together with the £50 Scholarship and Bursary Application Fee, by early December of Year 8, or
• complete the Scholarship and Bursary Application Form below and return it, together with the Year 9 Registration Form and the Registration Fee of £350. An applicant will then go through our standard academic process. We will be able to inform parents in advance of the scholarship assessments what bursarial assistance they are likely to be entitled to and if their son is academically strong enough for Harrow. These applicants will have £200 of the £350 Registration Fee returned if they are not offered a place at the School.

SCHOLARSHIP AND BURSARY APPLICATION FORM 

Year 9 Registration Form

An applicant who is registered between 1 May of Year 6 and 1 May of Year 7 is referred to as a ‘Late Applicant’.

Late applicants should:

• Complete and return the Year 9 Registration Form below and submit it by email to admissions@harrowschool.org.uk attaching a copy of the ID page from the applicant's passport. Please pay the non-refundable Registration Fee of £350 by bank transfer using the details on the form.

A late applicant will be invited to sit the ISEB Pre-Test (if he has already sat this for another school, we will access his results). If the applicant's ISEB Pre-Test results meet the required standard, we will invite him to sit the Harrow Test. As there are fewer places available at this stage, the competition among late applicants is intense and they must be particularly promising to secure an offer.

Year 9 Registration Form

An applicant who attends a prep school in the UK informs his current school that he is required to sit the ISEB Pre-Test for Harrow; the school should be familiar with the Pre-Test and will make arrangements for him take it there.

An applicant who attends a school that does not routinely administer the ISEB Pre-Test asks his current school to supply a suitable testing room with a computer and internet access, along with an administrator to set up and supervise the Pre-Test. Once the administrator's name and email address have been supplied to us, we will provide them with the information needed to administer the test.

An applicant who attends a school overseas asks his current school to supply a suitable testing room with a computer and internet access, along with an administrator to set up and supervise the Pre-Test. If the applicant's current school is unable to provide this, his local British Council office or another educational establishment may provide an alternative venue. Once the administrator's name and email address have been supplied to us, we will provide them with the information needed to administer the test.

The Admissions Office should be informed if an applicant has already sat the ISEB Pre-Test for another school as we will request his results from the ISEB (results are shared between the schools for which a candidate is registered). Applicants can only sit the Pre-Test once in any one academic year.

An applicant at a CE school, who has been offered a place at the School will sit the full range of subjects in the CE examinations in June of Year 8.  There is no formal pass mark hurdle for CE as such, but 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.

An applicant is required to sit Level 2 or 3 papers in Mathematics and Latin, and Level 2 papers in English, Science and French. If he does not study French, he should sit a Level 2 paper in another language. We encourage applicants to stretch themselves and we weight the CE results to reward those who attempt the more challenging papers.

An applicant at a non-CE school (excluding those in Hong Kong) who has been offered a place at Harrow, sits CE examinations in four subjects in June of Year 8. A boy who performs well in the Academic Scholarship examinations is unlikely to be required to sit these CE examinations.

We would expect an applicant to pass English (Level 2) and Mathematics (Level 2 or 3). He must sit the Maths Calculator and Non-Calculator papers; if he is at school in the UK, he must sit the Mental Maths paper. He will also be required to sit papers in Science (Level 2) and French (Level 2, if studied), for setting purposes only. He need not take the speaking and listening examinations in Languages.

We encourage applicants to stretch themselves and we weight the CE results to reward those who attempt the more challenging papers.

An applicant at school in Hong Kong, who has been offered a place at Harrow, sits CE examinations in four subjects in June of Year 8. A boy who performs well in the Academic Scholarship examinations is unlikely to be required to sit these CE examinations.

To secure his place, an applicant is required to sit papers in English (Level 2), Mathematics (Level 3), Science (Level 2) and French (Level 2, if studied) for setting purposes only. He need not take the speaking and listening examinations in Languages, nor the Mental Maths paper.

An applicant applying for a scholarship sits the Academic Scholarship examinations at Harrow in late February of Year 8. A boy who performs well in the Academic Scholarship examinations is unlikely to be required to sit the CE examinations.