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London Admissions - Do you think schools know what position you put them on your list ?

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drosophila · 08/10/2010 19:47

I suspect they do. I know they are not meant to but I really really think they know whether you have put them no1 or not.

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AgonyBeetle · 08/10/2010 20:22

NO, they do NOT. Or at least if they do it doesn't disadvantage you in your chance of getting an offer.

We have been offered a hugely over-subscribed school as a 3rd choice. I know people who were offered Latymer, QE boys, Dame Alice Owens, Henrietta Barnet and Fortismere as 2nd and lower choices, all of which are the London honeypot schools that people sell their grandmothers to get into.

Honestly, we've done secondary transfer twice ourselves and seen loads of other people do it. Schools are not allowed to take it into account -- if they did they'd be taken to the cleaners by the appeals procedure and/or ombudsman.

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drosophila · 08/10/2010 19:55

I still think they do.. I'm not sure how but I really think they do. I know one head who told a friend of mine not to believe it when we are told that they don't know the position you out the school. Also some of he comments made by Heads at open days seem to allude to this.

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Caoimhe · 08/10/2010 19:52

No they don't as the applications go through the LA and the LA can't tell the schools.