The College is not yet taking registrations for entry in 2012 and the years following. Registration may be made no earlier than four years before the term of entry (i.e. on September 1st 2008 at the earliest for entry in September 2012).
You may make an appointment to visit the school at any time to meet an Admissions Tutor and to tour the school. We shall send information on the applications procedure (the main principles of which are outlined below) and explain how an initial visit to the College may be arranged. Jump to: Contact Information.
Registration Choosing a Boarding House Open Day and Enrolment Assessment Day Selection and Confirmation Scholarships and Anniversary Bursaries Overnight Visit Common Entrance Late Entry: The Master's List
When you fill in and return the Propectus Request Form you will be sent a Registration Form. If you wish to proceed with an application please fill in this form and return it to the College with a registration fee of £150. To jump to the Prospectus Request Form, click here.
Three years ahead of entry, parents and pupils will be invited to make an appointment to visit two boarding houses on one of several designated afternoons. Parents may expect to be joined on their visit by three or four other interested families. To jump to more information on the boarding houses, click here.
Parents and pupils receive an enrolment form and an invitation to come to an open day in October two years before entry (key dates by years of entry). At this time parents who have not already visited a house will have the opportunity to do so.
The enrolment form enters a child for assessment in the January or February of the following year. A number of assessment dates will be offered to parents. On the enrolment form parents may state their house preference.
If numbers for assessment prove to be too large to be manageable, the College may need to 'cap' the numbers who enrol. In such a case, preference will be given to those parents who have registered their child earliest for the school.
Soon afterwards, we request a reference from the Head of a pupil's current school and we ask the pupil to complete a questionnaire on their interests and connections with Marlborough.
A pupil will arrive at around 10.45 am for assessment. The assessment will comprise:
Further information on assessment
In early March eighteen months prior to entry, as a result of assessment, places will be offered either on the A List or on the B List.
Parents of children who are offered a place on the A List will be asked to confirm their choice of house using a confirmation form and to pay a deposit of £1,000. If particular houses turn out to be oversubscribed, parents will be offered places in other houses.
Parents are invited either to pay their deposits and to confirm or to decline the offer of a place on the A or B Lists, by the end of April.
In February or March of the year of entry, Music, Academic, Art and Sports Scholarship assessments are taken. Assessments are also made for Anniversary Bursaries. Further information.
All candidates will be invited to the College for a 24 hour stay in late March of the year of entry.
In the June prior to entry, all candidates who have been offered places after assessment must affirm their entry either through success in the Academic Scholarship Examinations or through a creditable performance in the Common Entrance examinations.
For candidates attending schools which do not prepare for Common Entrance, different expectations apply. Contact us for more information.
The College will consider carefully applications from pupils which are made after the regular assessment date. At the time of assessment, a number of places will be held open for the express purpose of making such applications possible.
These applicants will be placed on the Master's List and they will be invited to come for a general visit to the College and to meet with the Tutor for Admissions.