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Waiting list....

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Tiasmummy · 25/03/2015 11:14

I was just wondering how often I can phone / email to check on a school waiting list ...without seeming neurotic...which I am about schools as every parent is! lol! But I don't want to appear that way obviously :-)

My daughter is 9th place on a waiting list which I last checked a week ago...is too much to check again now? How often do you think is acceptable?

Thanks in advance :-)

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cece · 30/03/2015 22:39

I was thinking I might phone on Thursday if there is no letter by then = but the school is closed. Will the local authority know positions on the list as well?

tiggytape · 30/03/2015 22:20

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kla73 · 30/03/2015 21:43

Thanks Tiggytape. Good luck to others. I know what a stressful time it is.

cece · 30/03/2015 19:42

no letter or email hereSad Sad

becks5109 · 30/03/2015 16:37

we are on 3 waiting lists - 19th on one, 13th on the other and in a lottery of 103 other kids for our zone and band so none of them looking very likely :( Admissions lady told me today that there has been hardly any movement this year - we are in Hackney

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kla73 · 30/03/2015 15:22

Good news for us. I received an email from the school on Friday stating that my son will receive an offer letter from the LA this week. Still feeling nervous until I have the letter but also delighted. Hope there is some good news for others very soon.

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Tiasmummy · 28/03/2015 15:19

Cece good luck! Fingers crossed :-)

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cece · 27/03/2015 23:35

DS1 is on the waiting list for our first preference school. As of last week he was no. 19. Admissions lady told me that she didn't find out about 2nd round offers by the local council till today. I sat on my hands and did not phone (again). Our local authority sends letters out for the second round offers apparently so I am anxiously waiting for the post tomorrow and next week.

sparklingsky · 27/03/2015 23:14

Nicely put Tiggytape! FlowersStar

HSMMaCM · 27/03/2015 16:45

We came off the waiting list, as after a year, DD had settled into the other school miles away.

LittleFluffyMoo · 27/03/2015 15:57

Good luck to you too Tiasmummy and everyone else waiting! Nerve wracking, isn't it?

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Tiasmummy · 27/03/2015 15:06

HSMMaCM another co-signer for weekly contact! Hooray! Lol! Glad you have had a good experience. Did you choose to stay on the waiting list?

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Tiasmummy · 27/03/2015 15:03

LittleFluffyMoo that online system to check your place sounds great! Number 5 ain't a bad position to be in at all! Good luck :-)

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HSMMaCM · 27/03/2015 14:42

I contacted admissions weekly when DD didn't get any of her chosen schools. They were lovely. Often with something helpful to add about another school which had places. At the end of year 7 I got an email to say, you are still 5th on the waiting list ... Do you want to stay on it?

Each time I sent a one line email and they sent an apologetic one line reply.

LittleFluffyMoo · 27/03/2015 14:30

Hi! My DS is number 5 on his list - going up agonisingly slowly! In our LA though, we're given a pupil number and can look up DS's place on any of the various lists he's on online. It's updated every few days, so we can just keep checking there rather than bothering anyone by phoning them (although might have to do that when we get to 1st!). All far more civilised and no snippy emails! Wink

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Tiasmummy · 27/03/2015 14:00

TiggyTape you have summed it up PERFECTLY! Absolutely spot on. Thank you. There is no place for snippy emails /comments from admissions staff in a situation as tense and worrying as your child's school place. Non at all.

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Tiasmummy · 27/03/2015 13:46

Backforgood yep.. They do indeed have a job to do which involves helping parents by answering queries about admissions... Which in turn will of course include questions about waiting list places. Yes? Whether it be once a week or once a day, it's their job to answer such queries in a respectful and courteous way as they are dealing with understandly anxious parents. Yes? Like I said.. It's simple.

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BackforGood · 27/03/2015 13:36

Yes. Read them all. Yes, e-mailing 5 days after you've been given an answer is pestering. These people have a job to do, you know.

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Tiasmummy · 27/03/2015 12:24

Backforgood have you read my comments throughout this thread? Have I written in hieroglyphics without realising? Once a week is pestering? Really? I have not suggested anybody has forgotten anything. I want to know if my daughters place on the list has moved... And.. That's it... It's that simple. It's not complicated.

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Tiasmummy · 27/03/2015 12:21

SparklingSky that is fantastic news! Wow! Congratulations! What a weight off your shoulders! There is hope for us all! You must be so pleased. Congrats again :-)

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BackforGood · 27/03/2015 00:26

I agree with redsky
If a place becomes available and your dc is next on the list, then they will let you know. How is you pestering them every week going to help?

I speak as someone whose dd has had a letter saying she hasn't got a place where she wanted to go for 6th form. It's disappointing, but me harassing the admissions person isn't going to change it - they've explained in the letter what happens, and we will wait and keep our fingers crossed.
Yes, there may well be movement, but it seems unlikely 10 people will have turned down places in 5 days and that they've somehow forgotten you are on the list.

sparklingsky · 26/03/2015 23:17

I bring you hope. Two days after being told DD was now 11th, we have today been given the 11th of 11 places offered to the waiting list!! Faith school, best results in the city and oversubscribed. Good luck to you all.

miffyandsnoopy · 26/03/2015 15:45

well, I was able to log on to the admissions system this afternoon and found that after the first 'round' of continued interest we are in 4th place out of 14 on the waiting list. Even though we aren't far down I don't feel that there will as much as four spaces becoming available in such a popular oversubscribed school. We wont be holding our breath!