Is it too early to start a 2016 girls 11+ W/SW London thread?

Apologies for typos - nerves!

Congratulations Shirley!!

No post here yet. Does anyone know if the rejections are in a smaller envelope? Dd want to open all the envelopes herself (not that she knows one is due today) as as this will be the only one arriving when she isn't at school I thought i might let her, but only if I know it's good news.
Thinking about it, a waiting list letter might be in A5 too so maybe I need to open carefully and re glue if that's what arrives.
Aaaaargh

I also feel I didn't get my DD prepared enough and we carried on living our lives! Does anyone know the kind of numbers there are at Francis Holland sloane square and how many they taking this year and roughly how many they offer to?

Thanks AlwaysFrank. I am scared she will get nothing. We haven't sat loads...

Slightlyjaded - please don't beat yourself up about a rejection from KGS. My son was rejected last year but got interviews/offers everywhere else, including schools considered higher up the pecking order than KGS! As others have said it throws up strange results.

Shirley - congrats to your daughter on the Surbiton offer

Oh good news Shirley. Hope others on this thread who went for SHS also get good news.

Congrats to your DD Shirleycantbe.
Our post doesn't come til 11:30. The suspense is killing us!

Surbiton offer for us in post this am
(A5 envelope)

Last one for us today and it's hard not to hate myself for thinking DDs naturally strong, all round ability and a few Bond Books would see her through.

As KGS rejection proved - she is under-prepared, which is entirely my fault

But she has bounced back and trotted happily in this morning. So good luck to anyone sitting Ibstock today. Drop off was like a masterclass in 4x4 cars

I definitely agree that Surbiton threw up some real surprises last year but that the waitlists moved quite comprehensively. I know in Dds class nearly all girls applied and they only had 3 offers on offer date. However when the school circulated the final list showing numbers of offers and acceptances it was up at 9 or 10 offers so a LOT came off the waitlist. So hold the faith if you get a waitlist place.

We had an offer from SHS which we turned down quite early on and we had a very charming email back from them. I told them where DD was going and they emailed me back to say that was a very good school, we had made a good choice and they were sure DD would do well there and they wished her well. I thought that was very classy.

Thanks for your words of wisdom re envelopes. I definitely would have panicked at a thin envelope. Now I'll just panic regardless of the envelope size! 😄 All this talk of the seeming randomness of who gets offers is making me feel slightly sick

Got it IHeartMarmite! And have replied

I've PMd you, Ancienchateau, not sure if that shows up in the new look MN!

V interesting about SHS. I know that last year there were some real shocks about girls not getting offers who'd been expected to do well. OTOH I also heard that the waiting list moved a lot, and your post bears that out. Still, a horrid limbo to be in and a good likelihood of losing not only a deposit but also a term's fees elsewhere

Thanks everyone for your kind words.

're SHS, one of DD's friends last year didn't make the wait list, or was so low on it that there was much scurrying around sitting for obscure schools and then in the early summer she was offered a place and is very happy there. So don't despair if it's bad news now or in next few weeks ... I know how horrible it is at the time though.

ah ancienchateau !! so glad it worked out.

That's really good to know, TeddTess, as I'd heard on the grapevine that one year the waiting list letters were A4 and gave false hope, so this is the opposite!

Very glad to have read that TedTess!!

by the way the surbiton yes letter last year was A5 thin iirc. just want to save you heart failure...

I have got to the stage where I just can't see my DD getting in anywhere... And so dreading all those thin envelopes coming through the letter box on 12 feb! Hideous. There just seem to be so many children i don't know how on earth they decide who to take and who not...

Ah ancienchateau, I think I see who you are. I remember last year - I was on that thread a lot under a different name ( this thread feels a bit tame after the squillion a of posts we all did last year). V glad to hear that everything worked out for your DD.

Ashers40 - yes, feeling nervous here. Haven't told dd yet that we are likely to know tomorrow, although other classmates took the exam so she would find out on Monday anyway. Here's hoping for a big fat envelope for all of us

Ancienchateau- I think we might have corresponded about this last year under different names. If so, that's great news about your dd! It wasn't my turn last year but it is again this year...

We got the letter on Thursday too. Thanks for all your support everyone. Good luck for al the interviews tomorrow