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Enrolling at 6th form on Friday after results day due to being a late applicant

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eveningqueen456 · 03/05/2024 19:23

My son is currently in year 11 and has applied to stay on at sixth form at his current school and also applied to college. However we were informed at the beginning of term that 2 of the A levels he wanted to do will no longer be running due to low numbers so if he wants to stay at his current school in 6th form he needs to choose different subjects. I know he has the college as a back up but this is for a BTEC course rather than A levels which is what he really wants to do and he wasn't keen on the college on the open day.

So last week we frantically looked at other school sixth forms and have applied to a different school but as a late applicant as end of March was the cut off. He has now had an interview and been offered a place but he cannot enrol until the Friday as he is a late applicant. My worry is that if he can't enrol on the Thursday -will the courses that he wants be full up and he won't then get a place. He can't enrol at the college (his 2nd choice) on the Thursday as a back up because if he does then he can't enrol at the other school as well, therefore he could potentially lose both places.

Has anyone else been in this situation and got a place fine by enrolling on the day after results day? The school say they have so many people who don't take up their places that there will be a place available for him but I am just a bit dubious. He is autistic and so worried because he can't now stay at his current school and he really really wants this other school but all though he has a space provided he gets the GCSE results if it is full on the Thursday (which apparently is very very unlikely) he will have no where as he has given up his space at the college by not enrolling.

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noblegiraffe · 04/05/2024 07:44

You can enrol at both, no one's going to stop you. It's not like applying for schools where it's all centralised. Kids change their minds and courses all the time. We always have kids on the register who don't turn up in September because they've gone elsewhere and not bothered to tell us.

MrsMoose0 · 04/05/2024 07:39

TeenDivided · 04/05/2024 07:07

I think he can enroll at both.

So enroll at college on the Thursday, then if he can at the school on the Friday, and then deregister from the college.

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This.

I'm a teacher in a college and a previous poster said I'd be very surprised if he missed out on a college place by waiting until the Friday. However, if it was my child I'd enrol at the college on the Thursday and then just let them know he wouldn't be taking up the place if he then gets the place at the Sixth Form.

There's no way for the Sixth Form to know he's registered with the college unless you tell them, not that I think it would matter anyway as long as he didn't actually try and attend both courses.

TeenDivided · 04/05/2024 07:07

I think he can enroll at both.

So enroll at college on the Thursday, then if he can at the school on the Friday, and then deregister from the college.

shepherdsangeldelight · 03/05/2024 20:30

I'm not sure that anyone on here can tell you more than the school - and they've told you it's highly likely there will be spaces available, so I would try not to worry.

It's also highly unlikely that he will lose his college place if he leaves it until Friday.

And there is the third possibility that there will be an alternative setting that can offer what he wants.

So, whilst I know you have no definites, it doesn't sound like a bad place to be in.

If it helps, he would get a place on Friday if this was DC's school sixth form. And if they had a particular subject that he wanted to do that was likely to be full, they would have told him.

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