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1st March offer day - anyone else nervous?

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NynaevesSister · 22/02/2016 14:23

I am really sure we will get one of our six. But I just don't know which one. And I am now really worried I put them down in the wrong order. Our first choice had a stabbing incident after applications closed.

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hornetgirl · 01/03/2016 18:19

6th choice, not what we wanted but we really had nothing else to fall back on. So disappointed after 2 years of 11plus, open days and banding tests. Why did we even bother?

tiggytape · 01/03/2016 18:16

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Ladymuck · 01/03/2016 18:12

I don't think that it is no offer - just not one of the 6 choices. I know Croydon has made allocations.

meditrina · 01/03/2016 18:10

If it's about 5000 with no offer at all, that's about 6% of applicants.

That'll be across London, so I bet some boroughs have bigger shortfalls than others.

tiggytape · 01/03/2016 18:09

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Ladymuck · 01/03/2016 18:08

Sorry to hear that. Did you get allocated a school? Or nothing?

RJsMa · 01/03/2016 18:06

We got none of our 6. I didn't expect this at all. DS is currently in a prep and even though he has an indie offer I can't except due to finances. In our 6 were catchment schools and church schools. I'm devastated and don't know where to go from here. I'm still in the office as I don't want to face DS I want to remain positive but don't know if I can.

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RedOnHerHedd · 01/03/2016 18:01

*putting not UTI g

Bloody phone hates me!

meditrina · 01/03/2016 18:00

Example of state school which gives scholarships:

www.kingsdalefoundationschool.org.uk/page79/

It boils down to partial selectivity in certain aptitude categories.

Ladymuck · 01/03/2016 17:59

Around 5,000 in London didn't get any of their 6 choices.

BabyGanoush · 01/03/2016 17:58

Sounds a nightmare simpson!

I was wondering how it could be

Something to say for the comp system then!

simpson · 01/03/2016 17:56

Baby- first choice ex grammar school (in catchment by the skin of our teeth - think half a road away), 2-5 were grammar schools & we got 6th choice which is actually not that far (a good deal further than 1st choice) but bus routes make it awkward so will either be one bus and a long walk or 2 buses.

DS score for 11+ was very good but maybe a strong academic year? Tbh the reason we put grammars lower (I wanted them 1-4) was because DS wouldn't be able to join after school clubs as he would have to get the mini bus back.

RedOnHerHedd · 01/03/2016 17:56

We only chose one, didn't bother UTI g other choices down and he got in, but we don't live in a city, we live on the outskirts of a small town and the secondary school headmaster was practically begging for children to go there.

Adamajudeh · 01/03/2016 17:56

minifingerz Do state school give scholarship!....

TheoriginalLEM · 01/03/2016 17:55

I am so relieved, DDs school is a catholic school and whilst she is christened, we are not practising catholics so would have not been on the first priority list. Also there has been a school closure in the area which would have put pressure on the school we applied to so was by no means "in the bag". Its been stressfull as the local school is really bad (head teacher just suspended) and that would absolutely been the alternative offer and i would have had to home school.

Paperm0ver · 01/03/2016 17:54

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Titsywoo · 01/03/2016 17:46

We got our first choice! Phew!

tiggytape · 01/03/2016 17:46

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TheoriginalLEM · 01/03/2016 17:46

Phew - DD got her place, i only put this school and one other as no other school in the area was suitable. DD has sen but no statement.

I was going to go on the waiting list but would have home schooled as our nearest school is a sink school.

BabyGanoush · 01/03/2016 17:40

Simpson, were any of your top 5 catchment schools?

RJsMa · 01/03/2016 17:36

is there a deadline to respond?

minifingerz · 01/03/2016 17:34

Anyone in Merton got their results yet?

simpson · 01/03/2016 17:30

Gutted...gutted...gutted.

We got 6th choice school, have accepted the place and will go on waiting lists.

Potterwolfie · 01/03/2016 17:24

Just wanted to recommend anyone planning to appeal to buy the book ' How to win your school appeal' by Ben Rooney, available from Amazon and probably Ebay. Read it cover to cover, understand the process and what you can and cannot use as grounds, follow the guidelines, then write your appeal documents using the clear structure he advises.

And ask the amazing experts (prh, admissions and tiggy to name three) on here for advice...They saved my sanity last year as we navigated the appeals process.