Admissions FAQs

​​Esher Sixth Form College provides education for students aged 16-19. Applications are therefore accepted from prospective students who will be aged 16 or 17 at the point of enrolment.

When applying to Esher Sixth Form College you will be either a guaranteed applicant or an open applicant.

Guaranteed Applicants
A Guaranteed Applicant will receive an offer of a place at the College, provided they submit a completed application by the published deadline and meet the College’s entry requirements at enrolment. You are a guaranteed applicant if you meet one of the following requirements:

• Resident in postcode areas KT6, KT7, KT8 and KT10
• Attend one of the schools listed as guaranteed in the Admissions Policy for your year of entry.
• Are the child of current employee at Esher Sixth Form College.
• Siblings of current student, or former Esher College student who completed a two-year programme at the College within the last 10 years.

Open Applicants
If you don’t meet the criteria for a Guaranteed Applicant, you will be an Open Applicant.

Once the application window has closed, Open Applicants will be allocated a place using a ballot system.  You will be notified in early October whether you have been offered a place at the College or on the reserve list.

​​All Open Applications will be pending until the outcome of the ballot has been released. You will be able to log in to your account after 3pm on the day of the ballot to check if you have been successful.

​The reserve list is generated by ballot in the same way as Open place offers are made. ​

If you have been placed on the reserve list, you must secure and retain an alternative post-16 place at school or another College.

​You do not need to check your online account.

For Entry 2027 – we will contact you by email on Friday 20 August 2027 to give you the opportunity to confirm that you remain interested in enrolling at the College and to provide the necessary information including preferred courses. The deadline for submitting this information will be 1pm on Tuesday 24 August 2027.

Confirming your interest does not guarantee that you will be invited to enrol. On the afternoon of Wednesday 25 August 2027, we will look at College capacity and course availability, we will contact those Reserve List applicants for whom there is a realistic prospect of enrolment.

In the meantime, we recommend students on the reserve list secure an alternative place for post-16 study.

​This is impossible to answer as it varies from year-to-year.

In recent years, some reserve list students have been offered places but this cannot be guaranteed and we recommend that students on the reserve list secure an alternative place for sixth form.

If you are a British Citizen but you have studied overseas please contact [email protected] before submitting an application. If you are not taking GCSE’s or iGCSE’s we will ask you to apply for a NARIC Statement of Comparability. This tells us if your grades are equivalent to our GCSE entry requirements.

​The College Day starts at 8:55am, with last lesson finishing at 4:15pm. Students will have an individual timetable once they have enrolled.​​

​You will receive four timetable lessons per subject, per week.
A lesson lasts one hour and five minutes.

In addition to this, your weekly timetable will include 1x Enrichment option, 1 x Tutor period, 1x Supervised Academic Study Period.

Find out more about how your timetable might look in our student case studies.

​Course interviews are conducted on MS Teams and held once a month between November and April.

You will be emailed 7-10 days before, with the date and time of your interview. A MS Teams link will be emailed to you a few days before your interview. For more information, please visit How do I join my course Interview.

Please note, interviews are always between 3:15pm and 5:30pm and you may need to ask permission from your school to leave early.​

In cases where exceptional personal or medical issues exist, extenuating circumstances will be taken into account when considering unsuccessful applications.

Further details are available in our Admissions Policy

The minimum entry requirement is five GCSEs at Grade 4 or above, but some courses may require you to get higher grades. It is important to get at least a Grade 4 in English Language and Maths.

Please note that the absence of GCSE English Language at Grade 4 will significantly restrict your study programme options.

For more information please read the latest Admissions Policy.

If you are a Guaranteed Applicant, you will automatically receive a place once you have submitted your application.

If you are an Open Applicant, we will email you in October, or you can login to your online applicant account.

Please note that the offer at this stage does not guarantee a place on particular courses.  Study programmes will be finalised at enrolment and will depend on course availability, estimated student demand based on data gathered from admission interviews, and your GCSE final grades.