decision on 1st March? Anyone want to sit and sweat it out with me?

We got first choice, have to write to the school to confirm our acceptance of a place. :)

DD got the girls grammar which was our first choice. We are delighted, she will be less so

I had the same experience MissMogwi, and assume the same as you, that things will become clearer later when they send out the emails.
Would be nice if web pages included more of this sort of information wouldn't it ?
They don't seem very clued up generally for this end of the process, for example web-pages still referring to applications now being closed, and very little mention of offers eg would be available to see after midnight or whatever.

Yay! DD got a place at the grammar school, so pleased.

It doesn't offer me a way to accept the decision on the web page. Will that be sent by email?

Well, yes, they are actually making the day more stressful for everyone (themselves included) by setting things up incorrectly. Other than putting the link in the wrong section of the web page (which doesn't really matter as there was a link in the email that went out about a minute before the online admissions site went live), my LEA have done well.

I think they have quite a low proportion of disappointed parents in comparison to other LEAs round the country though, so their day shouldn't be too dreadful. There are always some people who don't get any of their choices everywhere, but here you'd only end up with a school you didn't choose because you haven't been at all realistic. Whereas elsewhere in the country I think you can be totally realistic and still not get a place because everything is just so oversubscribed.

dd got her 1st choice grammar school, so made up for her
Well done to all those who got the school they wanted and I hope those who didnt didnt get what they wanted get through via waiting lists

I'm sure it's busy day for them Arbitrary but I find it frustrating that they don't seem to get the basics right - so for example with us there were no details of how to accept and when my friend explored webpage to try to do this she got what I can only assume is an old message (from last year) saying that the response was too late ! Crazy !
So, if they get that sort of thing wrong they'll have lots of otherwise happy families phoning in on top of those that are not happy with what they've been offered wanting to enquire about how to appeal etc.
IMHO They have the rest of the year to prepare for days like this !
I have no sympathy with the authorities !
Enfield are cowards, but I kinda admire their thinking

Being the most annoying parents in the country would be quite an accolade for the people of Enfield. In comparison, those LEAs who released the offers at midnight have set themselves up for a day of phone calls from frantic parents.

*Arbitrary (dope)

I bet you're right Arbitary - I wonder if it's because Enfield has the most annoying parents, so they've chosen them to go last so they CAN'T ring and complain!

I feel bad for the admissions people. Today is probably their joint worst day of the year (with primary admissions day). Stress, stress, stress. From every quarter.

Sorry to all those who have to wait until this evening. That seems unnecessarily mean but I suspect it's so they come out after the staff have gone home for the weekend (and can't take any calls).

Enfield don't let us know until 7PM - I mean that's just EVIL!!!

"and now I can get back to being scatty and useless" Arbitrary

No word here, grumble grumble.

It's working now. Unsurprisingly DS1 got our first choice (just about everyone else at his school will have too). I've accepted it and now I can get back to being scatty and useless.

My friend tried to accept their place (via webpage) but the system didn't seem ready to accept acceptances .... she got some message that they were too late in some way, which of course they found slightly worrying. But am convinced it must be that they haven't updated it from last year yet idiots
For example it's still saying that deadline for applications has passed which they could have got rid of by now surely ?
I'll wait for our email (later today ?) which will hopefully have a request that we accept and details of how to do that.

No news yet. Excruciating!

Phew it's working now, my DD got her first choice. I'm so relieved!

My LEA hasn't sent out emails yet. They put up the link to accept your offer, but they've put it in the wrong page. It's in the 'applying to primary/first school' page not the 'transferring to' page. Silly billies. The online system isn't working anyway.

I just want to sign on and accept my place before I get all useless and forget.

Ah, that can be hard when many friends going to another school. But with DD we found that starting secondary is a great time to make lots of new friends as so many in the same boat not knowing many. And she's kept in touch with lots of her friends from primary who went to other schools or even moved to a new city much more than I thought she would. When you're a teenager you don't have to have all your friends at the same school (unlike at primary where that's often more the case) HTH Inga - glad you are pretty happy with outcome, sorry it wasn't your first choice. Hope it works out really well for DD x

Not til 5 here. Just taken my hand off my mouse from hearing all your good news and my palm was running with sweat!

Having slept apallingly for the last ten days, (mostly hormones, some school stress) used a hypnotherapy cd last night and slept ridiculously well Soothed by all this talk of this being a low birth year.