Out of cohort eligibility for burseries/scholarships

[Flittingaboutagain]

Good morning. I can't find any answers on the internet and the prep school won't give me a straight answer.

How is eligibility for burseries or scholarships impacted by education out of cohort? What happens if my child does well at music/sports and wants to apply for a scholarship but has been educated with the year below (summer born prem)?

Are they joining the correct academic year at their new school?

I would imagine you can't have it both ways when arguing for the difference a few months in age makes.

Obviously my comment doesn't apply if your child would be going into the correct year group by DOB.

I know two children on sports scholarships. Most high level competition is based on DOB rather than school year, you don't get a sports scholarship for being the best in a school class, so that shouldn't affect him.

Music, I don't know but I'd assume the unusual level of skill would be obvious enough to warrant a conversation.

Surely it depends if they are gifted beyond the level expected in what would be their usual year group .

No. The year below.

This is what I was thinking. Thank you.

this will really depend on the school.

Sorry for the delay in responding to you all I wasn't alerted to replies. It seems it goes off date of birth so my child would still be entitled to apply regardless of which year group they were in, and would be compared to age peers. This has come from a teacher at an independent school.

You need to speak to the individual schools about their admission policy.