Is it too soon to start a 1st March (secondary school allocation day) support thread?

Do NOT under any circumstances decline a offer, always take it and then appeal / go on waiting lists / go private / homeschool, it's very bad advice to decline as I know of 2 people that did last year and got no school at all come sept and had to homeschool until a place came up.

@JustEatYourDinner The Herts stats are here:

beta.hertfordshire.gov.uk/services/schools-and-education/school-admissions/research-a-school/school-admissions-previous-years-statistics.aspx#DynamicJumpMenuManager_2_Anchor_1

I don't think that finding it has helped I'm now even more anxious having read the bits relvant to DD!

I just hope that the reports going up online is a sign that the system update has begun and that emails / individual allocation info will be available soon...

Edna- where is the data for Herts on the website? I wonder if ours is the same.

Still waiting.

Birmingham just came through. First choice offered!
Phew.

More reading of reports. 2 pupils from DDs primary have been given a non ranked school :-(. I'm convincinmg myself we are not going to get our choice. I really should stop analysing data and do some work!

My local authority advice is accept the place offered even if you not pleased with it then start your appeal for the preferred place. That way you don't lose out in a place altogether.

Fwiw my children are in an independent school and will be staying there.

That is haven't of course. I think the stress is killing me!

Urggh. Hate the waiting. School Business Manager let it slip to me where DD is going and I wish she hadn't. She certainly should not have done! Don't want to tell DD until I have seen it officially though as we got DD's first choice (even though it was a long shot). So I want to feel delighted and tell DD as soon as she gets out of school - but cannot.

And now Herts have released the outrun / summary allocations. 5 out of my village gaven't got their first choice. 2 have a non ranked school.

How can Herts release this info but not tell us the outcome on individual applications!!! Grr...

2.5 hours till results in London. The suspense is killing me.

talkto that isn't the advice usually given. You should automatically be placed on the waiting list for higher preferences and if you refuse a place you may end up with no place at all.

They can't make their minds up, can they?

This information is coming from the Evening Post website by the way, and I am NOT an expert in admissions in any way. Prh, Tiggytape and Admissions are the people you need

talkto I rung the council this morning and they confirmed that even if I accepted the offer on the 2nd choice school, DS would remain on the waiting list for the 1st choice - so I did. Surely he wasn't telling me duff information

Also found this.

This is what the local rag are saying about secondary school places and what to do if you get a place you dont like

Our email from Surrey arrived at 8:10pm last year, but we were able to log on at 5pm and check. This year we are waiting for dd but she is a sibling so hopefully straightforward. Good luck all !

Thanks Pointless we don't even live in a city or other high population area and there's always a fight for good school places round here. Wish there was more certainty in the system especially when you've already got a sibling at your chosen school but we're still near the bottom of the list of priorities. The government bangs on about making things easier for working parents and yet so many of us have to deal with shite like this.

Just Declined our second choice school, as DD will be going to the private school in September. As I pressed "Send" DD said "mummy - that means that someone on a list somewhere will get my place won't it?". She went off to school with a grin on her face - the place we've declined is at a sought after school where there is always a waiting list (we have different reasons for going private).

If we've declined a place at a good school, others will have too, which means that there is a great deal of hope for those who haven't got their first choices. Fingers and toes crossed to everyone who hasn't got the results yet, or haven't quite got what they were expecting.

Hi,
Did anyone get a letter from Manchester Grammar saying that the child's name is on the reserve list?
Or if anyone knows if Manchester grammar informs about the child's place in the reserve list.. please let me know
Thanks.

nong45

Thats so rubbish. Hopefully something good comes of you apealing.

Just checked from last year for DD and my email (London) came through at 19.55. Though I had checked online before that!

Waiting for DS this year. Different schools so no sibling link...

Another London application hear. Just had a look at eadmissions but only option is to view applications. I remember when DC1 applied, it was at least 5 o clock before they posted the outcomes, but a lot of people didn't find out until between 6.30 and 7pm. I expect we won't get our first choice, but anticipate he will be going to the same school as older sibling.