What a 3 days we've had - any insightful comments welcome. In short:
- Our daughter was offered 3rd choice (her 11+ score was about 30 down on passmark);
- 3rd school is outstanding but we appealed to 2nd choice school as was our preference;
- Last Friday took calls from our local Ed admissions authority saying why appealed when have offer from grammar school?
- Said we hadn't. She made further calls to other relevant admissions authority and came back and told us we definitely have an offer and it would be in post next day (Saturday just gone);
- It duly arrived, and we posted our acceptance same day (they should have got it today) - verbal acceptance of place given by phone on Friday;
- On Friday the Authority also withdrew both our place at 3rd choice school and our appeal to 2nd choice school;
- Today i take a call from a friend whose daughter got substantially higher score than my DD - and she is 188 on waiting list;
- I call our admissions auth to check they received our acceptance (they said still in posttray but will be dealt with this afternoon);
- I query whether there could possibly an error and i'm told categorically 'no'. And if there was, we have a written offer, accepted it and they can't take it off our daughter;
10. Finally, my other DS is that grammar school.
I'm perplexed. What could be a possible explanation?