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Channing wait list

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freyamou · 15/02/2019 15:51

My DD has been offered a place on the Channing wait list, does anyone know if there is usually a lot of movement on this list or do they over offer? I know they said there would be fewer places this year. TIA.

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freyamou · 15/02/2019 16:49

Also, the way the email was phrased sounded like the wait list was also running on a first come first served basis.

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londonista1 · 15/02/2019 16:49

Believe it or not, some people will pay the deposit for the security of having a place but not take up the place if they get into eg. Henrietta Barnett or DAO on state offer day. Another reason why exploding offers before the state school announcements are so abominable, but that's when the waiting list will kick in.

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freyamou · 15/02/2019 16:48

Both ways seem really bad, imagine being offered a place and then having it withdrawn or equally having to suddenly find nearly £4,000 to secure your place and that's if you manage to do it on time.I think I'll put it out of my head and my daughter seems happy enough to have done well enough to go on the waiting list anyway.

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PatienceVirtue · 15/02/2019 16:35

I know that offers exploded by the Thursday of half term last year so no one was offered a wait list place and some who'd been offered a normal place found that they no longer had one.

But they might have offered more conservatively this year?

Tissunnyupnorth · 15/02/2019 16:27

A good friend of mine has also been offered a WL position at Channing. I’m not really sure how they can run a proper wait list. Offers were received this morning and apparently first come first served, paying half of a terms fees up front. As soon as they receive the right number of deposits, they are full, well before their official deadline and probably within the next few days. So how will a wait list place come up? The only way would be for a family to give up that huge deposit, which I’m not sure would be many?