Anyone heard from Tiffin Boys Sixth Form - interviews?

Thank you @Rasb1234

I spoke to Tiffin this week who advised they are still interviewing and inviting to interview …..

Hi @Vive42 as far as I know she had two 9s, rest 8s and a couple of 7s

No-one in my child's school has heard anything back yet. Last year the process was pretty much finished by now. So either they are delayed or not many here got in.

PS. DD is applying for a very popular combo - Maths-Biology-Chemistry-Further Maths. I suspect the competition will be the highest there, so I'm not holding my breath...

We were also asked about the latest mock results - in support of the predicted grades - and we sent in the Nov mock results. However the admissions lady has said that we can also send the results of the Feb mocks "when they become available" (which in our case should be next week). She has not provided a deadline...

Yes agree they must be looking at subject choices.

Thanks @Luffers1972 My DD has slightly better results than her friend who got invited for an interview. Different subjects. Her friend applied for german, history and something else. So, I must assume it is down to subject choices as others have mentioned. My DD applied for maths, art & philosphy.

I previously applied for my other daughter probably rather ambitiously?! She achieved a handful of 5,s a couple of 6,s a 7 and 2 8’s in her early mocks - Nov. Her application was not successful, no interview. In her GCSE’s she achieved all 7’s and above (couple of 9’s, a few 8’s and the rest 7’s. I’ve just checked I received notification of her unsuccessful application at the end of March. Hope this helps.

Hi, I am also interested - we havent heard a thing after being asked to submit our mock results. Anybody else? I am starting to think it is a no as surely we would have heard by now?

Habe any interviews taken place yet?

Hi, we were asked as well and similarly my DDs teacher said she had already submitted the results....

Yes I was asked yesterday to resubmit my daughter’s predicted grades. I thought this was strange as we had already submitted them previously.

Students have started receiving emails to provide their predicted grade scorecards in my son's school. School teachers had already submitted the score for all the students so it's strange that some of the students are being asked to submit the same again. Again it's mostly girls who received the emails. So I still think that girls have a leg up in the process.

"Honestly I think their offer system is flawed"

@anoukis you're right. Their policy breaches the National Admissions Code because the oversubscription criteria are subjective. Another school with a similar policy had an adjudicator ruling against it - there are other threads about that. But until a parent or someone else gets round to referring the Tiffin policy to the adjudicator, the policy stands.

There is definitely an art to selection... it is all based on Tiffin's "assessment of their estimated grades in their best 8 GCSEs from the qualifying list". So I guess the more (recent) information they have, the better... predicted, mocks etc.

@anoukis exactly. We gave the predicted grades based on the mocks

@Richmond001 what do you mean by "year 11 mock predicted grades"? Sorry I'm being thick.

My DD's report shows "Predicted grades" and "Mock grades" that are different i.e. school expects half a grade or 1 grade improvement from Yr 11 Nov mocks results to May/June GCSE exams. The Tiffin form asked for "predicted" if I remember correctly.

Used year 10 predicted for initial application in December and year 11 mock predicted grades (done in December/Jan). They (Tiffin) do say that they double check with the schools to ensure that the predicted grades are for the latest mock results they (the school) has.

What have you all submitted to Tiffin? Predicted grades? Mock grades? If mocks, which set of mocks? Honestly I think their offer system is flawed, I think they should consider for admission everyone who has over 56 points and ask them to submit actual GCSE grades in August, and rank them then.

There are schools that don't even do predicted grades. There are people who applied using target grades which are based on year 7 entry point (SATs/CATs). We applied using year 10 predicted grades which are the lowest of the lot!

Our school's report shows 5 different grades for each subject on the reports: target, working at, predicted, mock 1, mock 2.

My DD's last mocks (mock 1 grades) were in November when they sat paper 1s mostly. They are now doing "mock 2" sitting paper 2 for most subjects, but results won't be available until mid/late March when it might be too late to send to Tiffin.

The more I read the less I know LOL - there does seem to be a bit of a dark art to selection. I guess we will know soon-ish? From what I can tell most people are contacted by mid march and then it is waiting to submit results once final GCSEs come out. Would be good to know how many people have already been invited.

If there was any evidence that girls were "definitely prioritised" then the school would be in breach of the national admissions code, and rejected boys would have strong grounds for appeal.

Girls are definitely prioritised and understandably so. They need to get some decent gender ratio in a boys school. Their site itself states that out of 120 seats, 80 are for girls. Usually they try for even more.