Bursary appetite-Eton/Wellington/Charterhouse

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Anyone have any experience of securing Bursary to any of the above ?
DS is sports scholarship material (county cricket playing up a year, county tennis on verge of Regional) In receipt of Sport and Academic Scholarship at Prep but will need to get to about 35% fee remission in a Senior School.
Any experiences appreciated. Thanks

Have you looked at all the details on line and spoken to all the bursars? Every school has its own thresholds and criteria which will move year on year so it's always best to get this information directly from the horse's mouth?

Yes have read heaps and getting a sense but always helpful to hear ‘real’ experiences !!!

What does “bursary appetite” mean? How likely to get a bursary? Eton offers a fair few, as I know you’ll know through your research. A friend had one as a child. Was an academic scholar. Hated his time there. Speaks bitterly of Eton. But it was 30-plus years ago...
what does your prep think? They probably have an idea of whether he’d enjoy it there, or at the other two schools.

What much / little do you need as a household income to get a say 50 percent bursary? This is what we would need to afford a 'fancy' public school but I'm assuming I earn too much.

Alternative to Tonbridge ?
Any thoughts on a back up school to Tonbridge ? We have registered with Eton but think that will be a push. Love what we have seen so far of Tonbridge but need a back up plan ! Have registered with Wellington College but still feel we need a few other ideas as these schools get Ao over subscribed. Any other thoughts?
Going to visit Sevenoaks, don’t like Brighton College, not inspired by Harrow on webinars… thanks

What are you looking for? Best sporting opportunities for your dc? Biggest fee reduction?

@orchidsonabudget strong academic rigour and traditional (not too stuffy) and plenty to sport. Son is cricket and tennis county level Boarding more likely than day. SE but not London.

I think Winchester has started doing sports scholarships. DS is a prep school sports scholar. Plays 3 years up at cricket and will do county trials this year so watching with interest. Adept at tennis, hockey and football. We can afford prep school but not senior school.

Have you considered Rugby? You need to get a scholarship and then you can apply for a bursary.

I think most of these schools will require your ds to get a scholarship and then you apply for a bursasy afterwards
The only way this doesn't happen is usually of the DC is extremely academic, not sporty I'm afraid they are 10 a penny!

Whitgift very sporty all the boys in 'A' teams are county level also give away a lot of burseries.

The "fancy" public schools are more likely to have larger bursary pots and thus the ability to share bursaries around those who can afford various proportions of full fees. We would have had scholarships only (with nominal fee reductions) at our local day schools, but have paid less with 50-75% bursaries at boarding schools for our two. We couldn't actually afford the day school fees to be honest.

Talk to school bursars honestly about your situation and they are pretty good at explaining their policies - which vary significantly from school to school. The extent to which achieving scholarships grants access to bursary assistance also varies from not at all, to 100%.

Good luck finding the "right fit" school(s) and I hope it works out.