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Made a stupid mistake

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Adizzy · 02/03/2019 08:44

I made a stupid mistake and put a school I didnt on want on my preferred choices.

I’m such an idiot. I’ve been upset all night over it.
I tried calling admissions to remove it after I spotted but it was after the deadline and the lady said it would be treated as a late application.
I thought it would be better to let it go through and hopefully I would get in my other choices.
We didn’t get our other choices.
Now we have been offered the school I put down as a mistake. It’s a school that’s not got a good reputation and even his teacher told me not to apply for that school. He is the only one in his clas going to the school.

I feel gutted and I’ve let my son down. He’s upset.
How can I have made such a stupid mistake? I just feel I’ve made such a mess.
I’m going to have to go through the waiting list process. I can’t appeal as I put it as my preferred choice.
I’m just so upset and beating myself up about it and feel ashamed to even admit to anyone what I did. I wasn’t paying attention and paid the price for it.

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Original poster
Adizzy · 02/03/2019 09:27

My brother said I should of only put 2 choices down and not put that school down at all. But I'm thinking now does that make a difference as the other 2 schools i put in my choices are popular schools (outstanding)
and most likely oversubscribed.

The awful school is closest to us. So even if I didn't put it down would I have still been like to have been offered it?

Let's say if I put another school in it's place, again will I still have been offered it?

I just feel I've made a mistake by including it in my choices....

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LIZS · 02/03/2019 09:23

You can ask if there are any spaces at other schools which may yet be preferable to 3. Meanwhile go on waiting lists for other 2. Even had you left 3 off it may have been the one offered if 1 and 2 were filled ahead of your ds and it was nearest alternative.

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Adizzy · 02/03/2019 09:20

Sorry, I listed 3 schools. The 3rd school is the one I didn't want which I put down.

They have offered me that school. I made a mistake by putting a school I didn't want as my 3rd choice. I wanted my first or second choice I'd of been happy with.

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Todaythiscouldbe · 02/03/2019 09:06

So you put a school you didn't want as first choice by mistake? How??

BarbarianMum · 02/03/2019 09:04

Sorry, are you saying you put a school you really didnt want in your no. 1 slot? Just how?

ShaggyRug · 02/03/2019 09:03

You can appeal for the other schools you’d prefer.

You appeal FOR the school you want.
NOT against the school you don’t want.

LarkDescending · 02/03/2019 08:58

Where was this school on your list? You can appeal for your preferred schools at which your son didn’t get a place.

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