As the Tiffin results day looms, a second 2019 SW London grammars and indies thread

Unless friends are not being truthful about not having contacted the school!

Toomuchpressure - do you really think we should continue calling? Genuinely interested because as I mentioned up thread, the only waiting list offers I have seen come through last week were to friends who hadn't contacted the schools at all.

I wonder if the registrars keep the 'very interested' parents on the back burner because they know they will fill the last few spots if needed. Whereas if they don't know whether a family is still wanting a place they are not a sure thing, so they would want to capture those ones first to remove variables as the days go by.

I have called and emailed several times and they know it's our first choice school. I don't actually think I am going to make any more calls now. Feeling deflated about the whole process.

Registrar definitely said they didn’t have many on the list. There were a few at offers holders afternoon that are holding out for G&L like me so you never know..

I would keep emailing/calling Putney and don’t worry about how many times - it’s important they know it’s your top choice!

One big nail biting chain indeed

Thanks for the info on Putney Toomuchpressure.

There a quite a few on the Putney list at our school and I had the impression it was quite a long list so that's interesting.

I think that last year Putney didn't go to waiting list at all.

We are in the middle of the list rather than close to the top and I doubt we will be offered.

We were waiting for PHS last year but sadly the WL never moved. We waited all the way until September but nothing! We knew another 4 parents waiting but they were told the same. Hope it moves this year tho, it was our top choice. Good luck to those waiting...

We released offers for 2 schools already and are holding an offer for Wimbledon with a deadline of 12 on Monday. Nail biting.

@toomuch thanks for the update! It’s like one big chain!!!

Bool, Geogra for what it’s worth we have a Putney high offer which we may decline if G&L waitlist comes up. I have an older one at Putney High and younger one at LU and I can say I love both schools and both are very happy respectively (third pasted the LU exam and went to interview but no offer) geographically Hammersmith works better for us.

I was talking to the PHS registrar on offer holders ‘second sight’ last week and asked her about the waitlist out of curiosity and she said they didn’t have many. Hang in there.

@thesunalwaysshines - yes one more day of this madness! Will let you know.

@Kora - oooo yes not thinking university yet - one step at a time!

For Oxbridge situation, this article also useful for a bit of context, private sector representation still relatively strong: www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-46470838. I’m not thinking about uni yet, one worry at a time!

Bool. Know someone who declined offer for PH end of last week. Good luck keep us posted.

Pa we rejected iPS and SHS for anybody waiting for waitlists there. X

Yes we are too - PHS. Are you holding another offer? We are holding KGS and will accept that in Tues if a waitlist place doesn’t come up on Mon. You?

Bool, Putney High for us and we have friends waiting for almost all the schools mentioned on this thread.

@CanadaUK , re Oxbridge, there was a very long thread on Higher Education called Oxbridge applications 2019 (part two). It followed the dc interviews and then in Jan unfortunately a large number of unexpected rejections and devastated parents. It's widely accepted that all the SW London privates have had a bad time and many posters quoting on MN threads that Eton had their worst year ever. These are all conditional offers so stats not released. Oxbridge are under tremendous pressure to increase social diversity and this will only increase in the future. But government policy on Uni entrance requirements shouldn't be a concern when choosing the best option for your dd. (Plus the privates will all turn to Ivy League instead).

Hi @1ndig0 nope no news here my DD is starting to talk to her friends about Ibstock so I’m not sure how she’ll feel if a place comes up at G & L. My DMIL was headmistress if a girls boarding school in the SE for many years (within an hours drive of London) and she said you worked out your offer numbers using a formula and would also calculate your WL length that way. She retired 10 years ago but it sounds sensible to me

@Geogra incidentally which school are you waiting for?

@Geogra

I think that of course it comes down to waiting list place. But I absolutely think it makes a difference if you are a bit further down and you let them know you are still interested. Ultimately the waitlist place over rides everything but there is no harm whatsoever in saying you are still interested.

It could just come down to waiting list ranking but then it surely hasn’t made any difference or helped our case that we have said we would accept immediately.

@CanadaUK are you able to please recommend the tutor you used?

I wonder why there isn’t a boys equivalent of this thread? I’ve found it incredibly useful for a general idea and overview of the process. I’m the mum if a reasonably able year 3 boy and his teacher mentioned we should be thinking about Tiffin. Thank you everyone for sharing.

Indigo, I would have agreed with you last week but I am now wondering whether we did the right thing in letting school know that they were our first choice and we were holding out for an offer.

This week I have seen a few girls be offered places from waiting lists, whose parents have not called the school at all.

Our preferred school has asked us to tell them the deadline of our other offers, and I wonder if that means that, armed with that information they are safe in the knowledge we are a sure thing until the last moment, while snapping up others on the waiting list that they don’t think will wait.

Thanks for your reply Canada. Interesting to read all the stats posted on here.