Offers day: 1st March 2024

We did! thank you

No, staying this way helps with my mental health (a little). 😂

Ours wouldn't come out until 5 anyway (local council practice)

Just ask DH for the password?

He doesn't sound like a very easy person to deal with,.............

Wish I didn't check in MN on these two threads 😂

I don't even have the login details (DH has it), so I'm basically just refreshing forums and see who got what and but all irrelevant to us! (Not till 5pm!!!)

Twins here too that have been allocated their 2nd choice. I’ve just called admissions and they’re 13&14th on the waiting list so I’m unsure if one would be admitted first or wether they’d be treated as a pair, should a space become available 😬🤷🏽‍♀️.

1st Choice!

Bucks here. We got first choice.

Logged onto portal to see. Ready now even tho it says 2pm

that suggests you'll be towards the top of any waiting list.
I think the number of kids that get in to popular schools via appeals is tiny. Via waiting lists, potentially significant.

We got 1st choice (and only choice).
V small Welsh language takes everyone in catchment 🙂

Third choice for us, I'm gutted. We'll appeal.
Going by past statistics we would have got our first choice if we applied the past two years. 😢

We got our first choice! I'm so relieved. Hope everyone else gets what they want. This has been so stressful!

Lancashire here - we got the offer email, sent at 8.15 am. Very relieved that DD got first choice (Grammar). Not all her friends have heard yet though.

I saw that the local authority mentioned that 86.1 percent got first preference this year. They also reiterated the reassurance that waiting lists and appeals do change things, and I send absolutely good luck to anybody handling waiting lists and appeals.

We had moved house since then so were very out of catchment - so we had priority for siblings, but it was still always a bit hit and miss if we'd get in because it's a fair distance.

Got in in the end which we were relatively sure we would (but we had also made sure we had an OK banker option nearby) but I never view school admissions as a certainty. Last year we had a few parents who only put one choice down and got sent to the arse end of nowhere.

Wow, that's interesting.
Sounds like the only rule book is the preferences set in application form!

Don't they have sibling policy so you could avoid going through the same this year?

This. I've mentioned that DD1 went through all of this last year - and she got our second choice on offers day, which we were OK enough with. Didn't choose to appeal or go onto the waiting lists for first choice (it's a small school and was a bit out of catchment anyway) - but got a call from the LEA a few weeks later offering us a place on the waiting list, which we declined, and then we randomly got a letter out of the blue offering us a place anyway - which we accepted and it was definitely a good choice.

In our area they were actually higher this academic year.

Don't lose hope yet. Lots of movements before September, especially cities like London. So many choices with Indies alongside. Many DCs choose to go elsewhere in the end!

I'd be grateful if you could have a look at my thread in secondary education, thanks @prh47bridge

https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/secondary/5019106-urgent-appeal-faith-criteria-incorrectly-applied

Hammersmith have posted the 2024 offer criteria and based on this we didn't get our first choice as the 2024 catchment is less than half the distance it was last year and the year before :(

Won't know for sure until we get the email but this is dated 2024 offers.

Just to say again, I will keep an eye on this thread and will try to offer advice to anyone who is thinking of appealing. However, the most reliable way of getting advice from myself and other experts is to start your own thread with "appeal" in the title.

Good luck everyone getting offers today. I was here the other year and we did not get our first or second choice (not unexpectedly, they were long shots based on distance criteria). We didn't really have grounds for appeal so just sat on the waiting list and eventually got an offer for our first choice in late August. I had some friends who got offers in the first couple of weeks of term as well. This was in London where there is definitely decent movement on the waiting list.

You do have to accept the offer they give you, even if you don't intend to take it up. We couldn't be told where we were on the waiting list until a bit after the deadline for offers and the initial waiting list moves. It was April before we knew. Started at 29 which sounded hopeless. Bounced up and down the waiting list all summer until eventually getting the place. It is agonising but we're very glad we held out.

I'm the same, we're in Hertfordshire and expecting our results in the afternoon. 🙃

We won't know our result till 5pm (London)!

But I don't think I can function today at all!

I can't concentrate on work with all the desperate email refreshing 😂