Top 10 Schools in UK (London) that are hardest to get into 

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​@@_.Sir_Isaac_Newton._ r/woooosh whoever made this vid probably didn't think that far since this video is so inaccurate

You shut your eyes, the school is gone

Lebowski53 Exactly! Although you could perhaps argue that ‘hard’ does not have to mean academically; in which case Eton and Westminster would be on a par, both exceptionally difficult to afford but one difficult due to ‘who you know’ and the other difficult due to highest academic standards in the country.

I’d say Kings is harder the Westminster the Eton (I know what I’m talking about) and they put Winchester and Harrow way too high

Yh my best friends did the exam for St. Paul’s girls and that said it was rlly hard! They got in tho

westminister is defo not the hardest, i got in to that school and ended up not going but i can assure the exam is not hard as long as you know all about the subjects u are doing.

@@scartchy8181 i did Westminster and it wasnt difficult

definitley

What would you say about Brighton college?

Harry Alldritt so true

Yh what about oxford and Cambridge?

@@awesomealdc8428 They are secondary schools/ sixth forms not universities... -_-

Damn right it is.

Entrance examinations are difficult without preparation. Winchester expects their new-men to also have an excellent character. Money is never an issue with any of these schools. If you demonstrate you can fully grasp and make the most of the opportunity, all of them will ensure you can attend regardless of income.

@@bertram-raven yes absolutely correct they offer bursaries if money is an issue

@@user-lk8tt3jn3q very few and you need to excel in something to get one

not true. Yes you have to pay but you have to sit entrance exams

@@Every1ShouldSparkle well obviously you have to prepare for the entrance examinations, you couldn't just go into the exam room expecting to pass without preparing.

Savva Zaytsev yes it is

Yep I agree 100%, I got in afterall LOL ...and I’m certainly no Academic Scholar 🙈 You simply need to be lucky enough to have the financial backing. I was very fortunate that my father had made some good investments over the years & had created a Trust Fund to pay for mine & my older brother’s Private Education. My Uncle also went to Stowe but I genuinely don’t think that helped me get in. I actually chose to attend Stowe myself after an argument with my father. I was actually put down (from Birth) to attend Eton, like my father. I got very average Grades in Common Entrance & went to a reasonably well-known Prep-School that is known to have Boys go on to Stowe.

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I new a kid in year 8 at school who went to Stowe and got an all rounder scholarship but didn’t play any music😂😂

@@middleagedwomanwithahandba2795 City of london freemens and King College arent here yet need 65% common entrance and they achieve 90% 7-9s at gcse

Nah definitely Stowe should be and ampleforth as well but not Tombridge

Exactly I go to the Torquay one and that was really hard

@@tiffanyadeeyinwo1990 are you in the northern part of the uk as they generally have it a bit easyer

@@runwaygaming9935 i am in England.o did practice for my 11+ for 2 years non stop with my African parents lol

I know people who went to both - they say that the smart people at boarding schools are smarter than the smartest at grammar schools, but that there are more less cleverer pupils at boarding schools than grammar schools as a whole.

@@alecgurdon5197 but that’s only because they have richer parents who can afford private tutoring. I don’t deny that some are smart but they use their money to get smarter

You a collegeman right now? Whats your name?

Yeah but common entrance is just an exam to make sure that the accepted students are still on the schools level before getting in, you thought Eton’s only exam to get in was the common entrance? No there are other exams the candidates had to go through.

The passmark is different to the acceptance rate. For example, Eton accepts way less boys percentage wise than Winchester and is therefore much harder to get into. The passmark for the exam has no say in terms of how hard it is to get into the school as 99 percent of boys who get a place at those schools will pass the exam anyway

No it’s a good school but definitely not on the same level as some of the schools on this list.

InterestingThings Absolutely right mate. Westminster is nearly impossible to get in if you are a boy in fifth form.

Indeed. It was a lovely building.

xRyann_ yep

well hello there. I didn’t know we would have such an encounter here

BizarreLGR OMFG😂😂

YES thinking exact same thing !!

Sevenoaks is pure shite

@@marcusbarton4562 how do you know

@@toaoih8610 because i go to a school where we play them at sport regularly etc

@@marcusbarton4562 well I don't think it is cause I'm going there, but we can disagree

nobody: everyone at eton: failing the westminster test

Nobody: Everyone at eton: not even bothering to try for Westminster.

@@georgekonig6792 Eton is one of the easiest private schools to get into lol. St. Paul’s, Westminster and KCS are much harder to get into.

@@flop8514 guessing you either failed or haven’t tried it yet based on your response

Hi, I am applying for Winchester college this year and I am kinda clue less how to prepare for the tests and interview so I'm wondering if you can give me some tips and what kind of things to expect. I'd really appreciate that.

The Night Same mate, have just done my interview

@@dongshenwu oh how was it? What did they ask?

r u gey fam?

Northern pleb.

Warrington?????

they are trolling you with this list - one girls school on the list, and no WA, CLC, SPG, NLC?

You guys are so correct

@@wrh152 omg ikr

i think they've improved on that now, ampleforth i mean. Not sure about the others.

Eton is a private school not public. There are around 7 private schools. Public schools are also fee paying schools but not part of the original group of private schools

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I went to one of these schools myself, and whilst not every child is suited to boarding school life, I could not disagree with you more. Indeed, the pastoral care at my school was excellent and remains one of the principal attractions of these schools. Whilst your school may have fallen down on this particular facet of your personal experience of boarding, I think it as wrong for you to extrapolate from the purely anecdotal evidence of your own experience that children are inevitably 'damaged' by boarding, as it would be for me to extrapolate from mine the conclusion that every child will automatically enjoy the boarding experience. We were not 'locked away' nor were we 'institutionalised' nor have I ever since felt alienated by the world at large. The teaching staff were not 'weirdos' and led perfectly normal lives (with spouses and children of their own) as much as teaching staff at day schools do. Indeed, a number of the teachers at my boarding school were 'refugees' (to coin a phrase) from state-funded schools and were happy to tell us that the teaching experience at such a school as mine was a pleasure after the dysfunctional misery they had experienced professionally at some state-funded schools. And if you're wondering what the personal political inclinations were of such 'refugee' teachers, they were happy to tell us that they were socialists (self-described) and voted Labour. This led to many an interesting and educational discussion, as you might imagine. What I write here is most definitely not a condemnation of state-funded schools. Rather, it is merely an observation that whilst not all is well at every single boarding school, neither is everything well at every single state-funded school. How many children have been 'damaged' by a day-school education, I wonder? By being obliged to attend a school chosen mostly by where the parents are obliged to live, which schools are under-funded and under-staffed, where teachers are continually unhappy with their professional lives and facilities are inadequate? Where violence is rife and the parents have little or no choice? I agree that the rather gloomy image described above is not the case at all state-funded and/or day schools, but then neither is the image you render typical of even a significant minority of boarding schools. I strongly feel that our state-funded schools need more money for better facilities, better school meals, higher teacher pay, smaller class sizes and improved school transport to boost attendance. And - yes - I know that will mean higher taxes for people like me (which I will willingly pay). The 'nuclear' family is in trouble in modern society and domestic violence is rife - indeed, my own sister has devoted her professional life to this particular blight on our society. It is a problem that afflicts even those families with satisfactory incomes, but it is epidemic amongst those with lower incomes because of the stresses that are associated with the situation where even two working parents cannot earn enough to achieve financial security. A dysfunctional home inflicts far more 'damage' than any boarding school could - or does. And I will tell you that there were more than a few kids at my (otherwise, very expensive) boarding school who came from very modest backgrounds, and attended courtesy of a scholarship of some sort. Yes, they fitted in socially just fine, and some readily disclosed that boarding school was a haven of peace compared to the family life they had to endure whilst not at school. Did I send my own children to boarding school? The answer: 'yes' and 'no'. The younger one has shown little interest and has attended day schools both primary and secondary throughout her education, with which my spouse and I are entirely happy. The older one attended day school until she was 15 nearly 16, at which point she discussed with me the pros and cons of boarding and asked if she had the option to board? I was lucky enough to have the means to afford her this choice and after she had discussed the idea with teachers at her day school and with school friends, she said she wanted to go. As she put it, she wanted to 'spread her wings' and and stand on her own two feet as an 'independent person'. And, between the ages of 16 and 18 , she boarded for the last two years of secondary school. My spouse and I missed our daughter very much and she missed us when school life wasn't keeping her very busy. But school life did keep her busy, and once she was settled in each term, she thrived and absolutely loved the experience. We saw her at home each school holiday and frequently throughout the each term - I obviously have no idea how much your parents saw you during your boarding school days, but it seemed to my spouse and me that we were at the boarding school almost as much as our daughter was. Indeed, given how many extra-curricular activities she had at her day school and how active her social life was with her peers outside school hours during her teenage years, I feel we saw our daughter almost as much during her boarding school years as we had when she attended day school. So - no - boarding school life is not for every child and none should be obliged to go to a boarding school if they do not wish to go. But if parents have the means and are assessing whether or not to send their child to boarding school, I think two critical questions need to be answered affirmatively before the decision is made: - 1). Does the child wish to go to boarding school? 2). Will the boarding experience enhance the education and the life of the child, and result in a well-rounded human being? If the answer to both questions is 'yes', do what you can to make the child's wishes a reality. Lastly, university: boarding school life prepares children emotionally for going away to university. Children who have gone to day schools will adapt to university life - after all, they're intelligent, bright and for the most part, emotionally healthy young adults. But for those who have never been to boarding school, the sudden experience of being away from home and entirely left to their own devices for the first time in their lives can - and often does - result in an extended period of emotional adjustment with which more than just a few struggle to cope. Indeed, I saw more than a few drop out of the university I attended after a year or two, because they simply weren't prepared emotionally for university life. Sadly, a few even committed suicide. Ex-boarding school kids suffered these problems at a far lower rate than kids coming up to university after a day school education and spending their entire childhoods at home. No - boarding school is not the solution to this problem, I readily acknowledge that. But what both government and the universities can do is to allow kids who have not achieved emotional maturity by the time they leave secondary school, an easier pathway to beginning university attendance when they are in their early to late twenties. Not everyone is prepared for university life at age 17 or 18, and both the universities and our children would be better off if we had more kids starting university life a few years after leaving secondary school, at an age when they are emotionally ready.

​@@xetalq I've only just read your reply. I'll address your points in my response, which will be quite soon. Bit busy today.

@@xetalq There was certainly pastoral care at my school, we went to chapel 6 days a week, I don't think having religion drummed into you did you harm especially but I personally got little from it. Not many people who I went to school with ever retained any sort of religious belief afterwards. I do believe that kids who go to these places are damaged, as I said previously. Not being raised by ones parents, and being locked away - which hardly prepares you for the civilian world, a world you were excluded from - these things are, in my view, detrimental to the person. You says kids are 'not locked away'. They are, they can't leave the place except on occasions, and that is similar to day-release from a young offenders institution. Others I've known have agreed with me when I've said that there's little difference between boarding school and a young offenders. On the issue of the staff being weirdos or not, the committed bachelors in these places are not normal people, the tradition of these people trying to get off with kids - often successfully - is something that's been going on in these places since Victorian times. Nothing happened to me, but I know people it did happen to. The staff at these schools with spouses and children - there were none at my school fitting that description - I would agree are ordinary people. They are quite rare in these schools and, like I say, I never encountered any. I'm all for kids going to State schools, I can not see any negative aspects unless the school is in a terrible area. So the vast majority of State schools are fine. The life a day school kid will have is similar to what a person will have from 18-90 years old, namely living in the civilian world 7 days a week and being educated by people who do too. Certainly some kids will be damaged by State education, but only if attending one that is quite rough, most are in ok areas so the kids there will have nothing negative about their experience. At least the kid in that situation will see family every day and night, the initial part of each morning, and all weekends. They will also live in the ordinary world: walking streets, visiting people, going to shops, etc - rather than spending 24/7 in a walled-off institution miles from anywhere. A dysfunctional home will certainly inflict damage on a child, but that only exists in a minority of households. The damage done by boarding schools, as I've outlined here and in my previous comment, occurs to one degree or another with most former boarding school attendees. I also knew a small number of kids on scholarships at my school, I never really saw the point - they would have got just as good an education at a good State school, or if their parents are very snobby about it then a good private day school. I don't see the point of the boarding element unless the parents aren't around to raise the kids - like if they work overseas, and that is the reason these schools were started in the first place. It's good you found what you felt was the right thing to do, education-wise, with your own children. Maybe kids are more listened to now than in my day, when I was at school in the 1980's any gripe a kid had wasn't listened to at all, the view from parents was the kid must endure whatever the thing was because somehow all this is a good investment in their future. When many got older they looked back and realised it wasn't. In terms of how much I saw family: four months of the year for holidays, and a 5 day half-term, 3 or 4 Sunday's and one weekend home, during each 13 week term. You speak of your daughter having a social life with her peers outside school hours, we had none of that in my day. There were feeble attempts occasionally, mainly because lads kept asking, for a 6th form dance to occur - where girls are bussed in from a girls school elsewhere and there is a kind of disco. Many of the staff discouraged this as they didn't want us associating with girls, them viewing male/female interaction as unnatural. I remember a group of lads, probably about 16 years old from my school, who were caught by one of the staff chatting to some girls on a country lane near the school. There were security cameras around certain entrances to the school and they were spotted - and within minutes of the chat starting they were busted by two staff. They were sent to the headmaster and caned (for young people reading this who are lucky enough not to know what that is, being caned is having your backside whipped with a stick 6 times). Had they been caught smoking or stealing the punishment would have been less. You mention how boarding school prepares kids for university. As they'll be going to live away, the fact they're previously lived away will obviously be a bonus. When you're 18 or 19 however you're a young adult and can adapt quite well to living on your own. Some young people leave home at 18 or 19 anyway. Sending someone away to live away from their family at 11 or 12 - some are even 7 - is not a good thing, unless the parents really keep an eye on it are really listen to what the kids says. So if the son or daughter says "dad, mum, I'm very unhappy here" they should be removed from that place and that way of life - kids who don't like it shouldn't be forced to endure it. In summary: boarding school is not a good thing in my view, unless a school can be found that is as close as possible to what post-18 life will be like. This would involve a mixed school, no single sex ones, and a place where all the staff have families. Also a lot of access to the outside world, and a situation where the parents monitor the happiness and well being of their kid, and really listen, and if they're not happy and it all doesn't feel right, they should be removed from that environment. Most will endure it to some degree, most tolerate a life nothing like what they'll have later, and most have few to turn to when they have difficulties - and that DOES damage the person.

Ioana Rozorea Wycombe Abbey and Cheltenham Ladies aren’t that hard to get into. Trust me, I tried out for both.

Abi Turner, then why were these schools labeled as some of the best in the world? I mean what’s the diffrence between graduating from charterhouse, stowe, eton, tonbridge, hurtwood house or these two? Don’t get it wrong, pure curiosity is pushing me to ask. Besides, I’m very interested in this topic, because I’m going to attend cheltenham ladies starting with the fall of 2021, so I still got time to change my mind. Do you have any suggestions, that are worth considering?

Ioana Rozorea I would probably suggest Charterhouse over just because many of the people who I know who go to Wycombe Abbey say that it’s not that demanding academically and I found when doing the exam there I didn’t like the ethos as much as Charterhouse. Many people from Cheltenham Ladies that I know don’t like the school. I didn’t try out or look into applying to Cheltenham though so I’m not fully aware on what’s it’s like as a school. Please don’t let my comment completely change your mind on a school you are going to attend because i feel it is your own opinion on where you should go to.

Abi Turner thanks a lot for your honest opinion, I really apreciate it. Although I won’t change my mind right away, I still have a lot to think about, in fact I’d like to take some other schools into consideration, because I already had a few doubts about this one.

-_-. not all these schools are p2w

Ampleforth sounds like a wonderful school: www.theguardian.com/education/2020/nov/28/pupils-barred-ampleforth-college-catholic-school-abuse-scandal

@@jeffoliver7491 I understand that they have a new Head in, so hopefully that will be an end to the abuse. Parents are still sending their children to the school. Stoneyhurst College and Downside are in a similar league, and St George’s College is nearly there.

@@rafd3593 The abuse was so awful at Ampleforth, so widespread, and so accepted, that I don't think a place like that could ever redeem itself - even if all the staff were changed. It should be closed down and the place demolished.

@@jeffoliver7491 I think it can. Look at how Germany redeemed itself after WWII. There is hope if you get good people in.

@@rafd3593 Ampleforth will have to have an entire clear out of the staff and the culture will need to totally change. Kids will have to have mentors and guardians, completely independent of the school, that they are encouraged to go to if they have a problem - and the kids must be listened to, and strong action taken, if they do. Do that and the place could continue as a school.

AlphaL 5 what's his name I will say hi.

[ Content Deleted ] what do you go there if so well done because it seems difficult to get in and he is called Harvey baton

Im off to eton to

AlphaL 5 What area of work are you in out of interest?

Tips? 😭

@@gavaza7576 what kind of tips

@@lclayton7075 getting into charterhouse

@@gavaza7576 get good grades and have money lol

Do you study at Tonbridge btw?

zheng gong my mate brother goes there

Neeelshrav PS2 lol I go there

Correct, is the best grammar school, so naturaly the competition is fierce. 140places/2000applications average.

I gotttt iiiinnnnn 😂 happy asf but yea

Meme Royale what house are you in and what year?

@@u9gaming244 we are a group so in different houses. We are in Harrison's Leicester and stapylton yr 8

pecking order? -_-

no

Husan Sharif colleges mate, would a primary ever be that big and that old

Trust me you have to be more than rich. You have to be intelligent and have many good personality traits which are tested in the interviews

WHE Alternatively, taught by a private tutor for two years and told what to say by your parents.

ZimiTros no, you do not know what you are going to be asked. For example in my interview at winchester in year 6, it was partially in french, partially in Latin and I was asked about the symbolism of a napoleonic painting- this tested my analytical ability aswell as language and historical intellect.

Yeah thats a cap. You cant buy your way into these schools. Even if you were poor, you can still go via a scholarship or alternatively a bursary where you can go for free or at a reduced fee.

Nah. Money helps a lot but you can get into the school if you’re especially bright and Winchester + Eton papers are extremely difficult

nope easy...my sons went to Rugby and housemasters choose on potential of the child and whether the parents are going to be bearable for 5 years.

Izzy Playz Msp god no they’re easy to get into

Whats that??

that is quite alot but i go to a school 10k more lol

Camilla Lucas my girlfriend is there

cool

Outrageous......Not.

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