The Butler Scholar Program provides opportunities for academically gifted students with outstanding leadership potential and exemplary personal values to attend Marymount's Upper School. The program seeks to enrich its community by attracting a diverse student body from parochial schools and Catholic parishes in Manhattan, the five boroughs, and beyond.

In order to be eligible for the Butler Scholarship, students must attend a parochial school or be baptized Catholic. In addition, they must be nominated or approved by their school principal in the spring of seventh grade. As this is a highly competitive process, we advise principals to reserve this nomination for their highest achieving students. All nominations are due September 6, 2024.

Marymount's Butler Scholarship is a nominal, merit-based grant. For families seeking additional aid, please be sure to complete a Clarity financial assistance application by November 1, 2024.

100-150

annual nominees for the Butler Scholarship

48%

average percentage of nominees who move to the semi-finalist round

15

average number of Butler Scholars who join Class IX each year

$457,000

average amount of grant money awarded to Butler Scholars each year

Butler Scholarship Process (nominated students only)

1. Submit Application

All Butler Scholar nominee families will receive an email from Marymount with confirmation of your daughter’s nomination and a link to finish setting up your account. Once you create an account and log in, you will be able to begin your application. Within 48 hours of submitting your application, you will have access to your online application checklist.

2. Butler Information Session

Butler Scholar nominees and their families are required to attend this important virtual information session on September 16 2024, at 4:30 p.m. Families can register using their checklist.

3. Request School Records

Butler Scholar nominees must submit principal, math, and English teacher recommendations and two years of school transcripts. Recommendation forms are also available through your checklist. Request that your child’s current school send school records directly to admissions@marymountnyc.org.

4. Butler Scholar Exam

All Butler Scholar nominees are required to take the Butler Scholar Exam, administered in person on November 2, 2024, at 9:00 a.m. In addition to taking our internal exam, we encourage applicants to take the ISEE. You can learn more about this test here. The deadline for submitting an ISEE score report is January 9, 2025.

5. Applying for Financial Aid?

All students named Butler Scholars are awarded a partial merit scholarship for each of their four years at Marymount. If you are interested in receiving additional financial assistance please click here for more information and here to begin the process. It is important to note that in order to be considered for additional financial assistance, all Butler Scholar nominee Clarity applications are due on November 1, 2024.

Butler Scholarship Timeline (nominated students only)

Clarity Financial Aid Application Opens 

September 1

Butler Scholarship Principal Nominations Due 

September 6

Butler Scholarship Nominees Information Session (via Zoom @ 4:30 p.m.)

September 16

Butler Scholarship Application Due

October 7 

Upper School Open House (115 East 97 Street @ 6:00 p.m.)

October 29

Clarity Financial Aid Application Due 

November 1

Butler Application Materials Due (transcripts, teacher recommendations, writing sample, activity form)

November 1

Butler Scholarship Exam (115 East 97 Street @ 9:00 a.m.)

November 2

Butler Scholar Semi-finalists Notification Deadline 

November 15 

Butler Scholar Semi-finalists Interview Day
115 East 97 Street (9:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.) 

November 23

Butler Scholar Finalists Notification Deadline 

January 22

Butler Scholar Reply Deadline 

March 12 

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