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Anyone waiting for Herts / N London 11+ results?

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bluegreencherry · 10/01/2025 19:29

Our DS is only sitting two - Habs and St Albans. Second round for Habs next week, waiting to hear whether he will get invited back for second round of St Albans. I'm finding all this waiting is shredding my nerves, so if anyone else is in a similar position with these schools and fancies a pointless chat / baseless speculation on impact of VAT on applications / the process / Plan Bs, please say so!

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DawsonsGeek · 10/01/2025 19:54

Not these two schools but two other North London / Herts indies and the wait is brutal. All interviews were completed on the same day as the assessments before Christmas so now it's just a waiting game. As if January isn't long enough... So really on here to share sympathies and happy to shoot the breeze on all things above as a delightful distraction!

VAT wise, I assumed applications would be down but according to one school we applied for they are the highest ever and judging by the number of children at the assessment day for the other one, I'd say demand has remained high. It's very hard to know if it's perception rather than reality though. The two schools are plan A and plan B. I know others apply for way more but we'd already put DD through the grammar / state selectives and she was pretty done with it, so we narrowed indies down to the ones that really sang to us.

Our plan C is seeing what is thrown our way on National Offer Day but we're in a catchment area chasm and chances of getting into our nearest, very good state secondary are almost zero so it's pretty teeth grinding. Can't wait for it all to be over one way or another so we have a plan.

How are you feeling about things?