Scholarship Eligibility

For information about each scholarship subject, please refer to the relevant section in this prospectus.

Acceptance of an offered Confirmed List place at the College must be established prior to an application for a scholarship.

Parents should discuss and agree a scholarship application with the Head of their child’s current school prior to the completion and return of a scholarship application form.

Scholarship application forms are emailed to parents at the end of the Summer term of Year 7 and are also available from the Admissions Department.

All scholarships are awarded on merit, which is determined chiefly by the candidate’s performance in the relevant examination or assessment and, where applicable, scholarship interview. More than one type of scholarship can be applied for. For a small number of candidates who narrowly miss achieving two or more individual scholarships the College may make discretionary all-rounder awards.

Closing dates for each type of scholarship are published on the College website at the end of the Summer term of Year 7. No further applications can be considered after the published deadline dates.

In support of a Sports award application, a teacher’s report of the candidate’s achievements and potential is also requested.

All scholarship examinations and assessments are held at Marlborough College, except the optional papers for an Academic scholarship. Please see the Academic scholarship examinations section of this booklet.

As a condition of a Marlborough College scholarship, a successful candidate is not permitted to enter a scholarship for another school. If he or she does so, the Marlborough award is automatically withdrawn.

Please note that a scholarship award is honorary and does not secure a reduction in College fees. To support families who would not otherwise be able to afford College fees, applications for means-tested bursaries are welcomed and need to have been applied for by 9th October of Year 6 prior to the entry assessment and place offers. Further information about the bursary application process can be found at www.marlboroughcollege.org/bursaries.

Scholars are expected to play an important role in the life of the College and their talents are nurtured through comprehensive enrichment programmes. The performance of each scholarship holder is reviewed on an annual basis by the Master in collaboration with the relevant subject Head of Department and the scholar’s Housemaster or Housemistress.