Sutton, Wallington,Wilsons Test 1 Results

Heaven forbid that they might stay later today to try to ensure that everyone gets their email on the same day. stomps off with a bad grace Thanks to all who are sympathetic - I can't keep posting this stuff on Facebook, most of my friends aren't parents and won't understand x

Just big hugs to all affected by this , I know the force will be with you , fingers crossed

Apparently there has been a glitch and WCGS will have to resend some emails tomorrow (to those who haven't got them already).

I appreciate that email glitches are probably out of the control of the admissions staff at the school, but if they're weren't working quite so close to the wire.... Sympathies with anyone still awaiting an email.

Although I suppose I could break out the Nerf guns and take aim at the platoons of pigeons that congregate hereabouts.

Sensible idea, Ladymuck, alas no. As for the cat - haven't got one, so the neighbourhood moggies had better watch out.

Spam folder?

I wonder if they've passed more because there's more attrition for WCGS possibly?

I think your philosophy is quite right Shaq!

I think it's quite possible they're doing them alphabetically MrsSteptoe....hang on in there.....

Shaq, assuming you are eligible for a comp place, then yes, you will get the one ranked highest on the list. You will also be put on waiting lists for the grammars, and usually you can then find some information about where you are on the waiting list.

MrsSteptoe, have you opened the yet? Otherwise I fear for your cat....

Thanks Ladymuck, that's the kind of reassurance I'm after!

One thing that I don't understand, if on the 4 March, we don't get offers on the Grammars, am I not automatically offered one of the comps on my CAF? Or am I supposed to sit on that, hoping to move up the waiting list?

If you are sitting Sutton too, then yes, the chances are good, and close enough that you could feel genuinely disappointed if you were not to get a place come March. But equally there is a lot of movement in March and April, so even if the news on 4 March isn't what you want, it still doesn't mean that it is all over.

There were a lot of prep school uniforms at WCGS and Wilsons so it wouldn't surprise me if a significant number are after Whitgift/Trinity scholarships. [There are other schools as well obviously, but those 2 have a particularly generous scholarship fund].

Thanks, shaq - you never know, but I'm so bad-tempered now that I think they could offer me a place on the spot and I'd want to tell them to f* off. This is ridiculous. People have no homes and massive debts, and I'm stressing about one school. STOP IT.

Yes true, but my philosophy is that I would honestly be happy with any one of the three, as I think there is little between them, and the gulf is between them and the comps/secondaries.

With DS having now passed Wilson's and WCGS, and knowing there is no further info to be had until one fateful day in March, I'm just trying to reassure myself that he has a good chance now?!?

It is still nearly 5 boys for every place, but all depends on how many of those boys firstly rank highly enough, and secondly prefer other schools.

Didn't realise Wilson's takes 180 - ok, so that makes a difference!

Wonder why WCGS have passed so many then?

Dibbleofficer, I've been doing those sums too!

360 places at the three Sutton grammars. Those are only available to the 799 that passed the SET. Some of those 799 will be siphoned off to St Olaves and Tiffin, depending on location, but no idea how much that will account for...

How much are the indies likely to take?

Anybody have any figures on how far down he waiting list the Sutton Grammars have gone in previous years?

586 is a big number!
What are the odds of getting in?
My DS happy!

Hope that it is good news MrsSteptoe. Dibble, there are 420 Sutton grammar places for boys this year (Wilsons has gone to 180 and 120 at each of the others). But yes, it is all one vast game of musical chairs. There are fewer than 1,000 year 6 boys living in the London Borough of Sutton, which puts a certain perspective on the whole thing!

Sorry meant good luck Steptoe

Crossed post with Ladyluck

MrsSteptoe, don't give up hope just yet, maybe it's done in batches based on surnames, or on birthdate (My son is a November-born, and an 'A' surname)?

This is Wally's, anything is possible!

Fingers crossed for you willemdefoe, we got a good result , but it does not narrow it much

My Maths say 380 approx Grammar places in sutton , Tiffins x number of places - to far away didn't apply. ?

So they have to pass around 500 , then there are St Os , Kent and Indie public schools who will take some candidates

This jigsaw is very complex , am I way off beam with my sums?....

Now wine o clock.....gggggg

Sorry - cross posts.
I think what the new system did do, is firstly encourage more "average" pupils to attempt it than ever before, on a "nothing to lose" strategy, and secondly the possibility of losing 3 schools on 1 day meant that the more seasoned boys went for multiple entries which has certainly increased the exam load and stress I would guess.

It may also mean that there is more chopping and changing in March and April. I know one person who lives in easy reach of Wilsons, but now prefers Judd despite the fact it is 30 miles further away! With so little time between results and CAF deadline, parents may be swung by an unexpected result, but then realise once offers are out and they know their waiting list options, that a different school becomes their first choice. I know that everyone is meant to decide their preferences without considering how likely their chances are, but the reality is some people will be swayed by a "likely" letter from St Olves or a 423 score from Kent.

willemdefoeismine not sure if passing the first round has made it worse on DS. If they didn't have preselection, then he'd still have had to sit three exams, and face three fails (which I'm referring to as "not getting through" when I talk to DS). So from my position of one failure and, I fear, one to come at some point later this afternoon, I'd say - there's not a lot in it. But at least we can say to him that he got in the top 35% of the 2,300 preselection candidates.

Predictably... no email here. Now I am, of course, thinking that only the success emails have gone out. fffffffffffffffffff.

Ladymuck, yes we should - but this is rather like labour. Everyone tells you that at the end you'll have a wonderful baby, but actually you do wonder, contracting like a bastard, why on earth you started this whole blasted process.

hurrah!

Going to give the good news to my son now!