1st March offer day - anyone else nervous?

First choice here too. So pleased. A distinct lack of anyone discussing on fb, which is really annoying because I want to discuss and I can't exactly text anyone at this hour . I hope all her classmates got the places they wanted too.

First choice here thankfully too. We didn't get it for Dd1 we had to appeal and that failed. She eventually got a place off the waiting list. So nice not to have to go through all that.

Good luck to everyone else :)

First choice here too! Can go to sleep now. for all those still awake and waiting to find out.

First choice here too. A great relief, am crying tears of joy this time knowing We won't have to face an appeal and waiting list like her sister. Such a shame that it's the middle of night cos I want to scream and shout with releif

First choice!

First choice too. So happy for DD!

Fingers crossed for everyone

YES! First choice. Free school with alternative non-Govian ethos. Am delighted!

Another one who doesn't find out till 5pm tomorrow. DS sat the 11+ to avoid having to put 2 local sink schools down (but I do know he could still get them).

We have put an ex grammar school as first choice which we are in the catchment area by the skin of my teeth (think 4 houses away!) and then grammar schools 2-5 and a good ish all boys school as 6th.

Am bloody terrified. Dd 1St choice c of e high school. Fab school. We do attend church but not every week. 2nd choice nice school but she wouldn't get the opportunities that she would get at the first one. Am so worried.

Yep - waiting up until midnight.

Have they now fixed it so that the website doesn't automatically crash an hour before the results go live?

A few years ago that used to routinely happen, so you had to wait for the email. Twas maddening, and presumably unnecessary, since they must know how many applications they've had, and should therefore be able calculate exactly how many people are likely to want to access the website, and arrange for the appropriate server capacity.

This is killing me right now. What if I screwed up the application or something? Aargh!

Thank you Tiggy. Fingers and toes crossed, we're right at the cut off point as the catchment has shrunk hugely since we moved into our house.

Silly question but is there an obvious place to go to on eadmissions tomorrow? I can't see anywhere set up, only the original application.

Kia, From the Bromley Admissons booklet:

April
Reconciliation
• Bromley admissions will begin to re-allocate, in waiting list order, any offered places no longer required taking into account late applications with exceptional circumstances and proven changes of address received 3 December to 1 March.
May onwards
• Processing of applications received from 2 March, according to availability.
• Changes of address, late applications without exceptional circumstances and requests for additional preferences received from 2 March now taken into account for waiting lists.

We are also waiting for a grammar school place. Where we are each school has its own entrance exam. Dd passed all the exams she sat and should get a place at her first choice as we are in catchment and at a feeder school (Catholic) but I will feel so much happier when I see that offer in writing. We can log on at a minute past midnight.

Good luck to everyone. Mine are both securely in first choice school but I remember the stress. 2 years ago my friend was in hospital after having breast removed and got the news of rejection through email. Terrible time but she got DS in on appeal. Unfortunately she died this September but her son is in the school she wanted - still makes me cry at times.

I emailed the admissions dept here and asked about the second round thing. They replied to say if we didn't get the school we wanted we 'would have a chance to ask in writing'. So not sure if they do the second round thing here.

"In Bromley for example they deal with late applications after the 'reconciliation' date when second round offers are made. Late applications without extenuating circumstances are dealt with after that date"

Surely the admissions code does not allow this. Late applicants are allocated places after everyone else has been dealt with in the normal admissions round. Unless a very recent application I would expect a late applicant to receive an offer on offers day obviously taking into account that their preferences will have been considered after all on time applicants and for this reason may be a school that they didn't state a preference for.

It would be unfair to penalise late applicants by not considering them before a 'second round of offers' and as Tiggytape states they should be considered for waiting lists in the same way as anyone else.

Hi all,

I’m a broadcast journalist with BBC Radio 4.

We are looking at setting up an item for our programme tomorrow morning on the subject of national offer day.

We want to talk to people who have found out overnight whether they have got a place for their child at their first choice – whether the news is good or bad. The idea would be to talk about how you feel about the decision and what you will do next!

If there’s any way you could contact me via private message to discuss this further, we would be delighted to talk!

Thanks so much and hopefully talk soon.

We're also hoping for a grammar school place. We don't know any scores (our preferred three schools (Sutton) never tell anyone who passes the exam), but we think the odds are quite good. Other boys passed all or some of the exams and they can only have one school place each.

Good luck to everyone!
We find out at midnight tonight which is why I'm awake at 530. Im really anxious about it.
We're hoping for a grammar school place, my daughters result was in the "based on the last 4 years should eventually be offered a place" section, last year about 8 marks under hers got offered on allocation day and I've read that the raw mean results were lower overall this year so it all looks positive but who knows.