SW London Grammar and private senior school entry 2026

Not something to worry about for a couple of weeks but in the past have admission decisions been sent prior to the friday before half-term or will they all been sent out on the 13th?

Thank you for replying - I needed to read this! :) so glad this is over now - my nerves need to recuperate in time for Offer day!! ;)

Yes, we had one interview that my ds felt did not go well. He is normally the type all teachers love and always gets great feedback. The previous interviews he felt went really well and this interview he felt the teacher did not like him, she was very serious with a stern face. Gave no reactions to his responses (the other teachers would smile or be warm and encouraging). Anyway, he ended up getting an offer to the school he thought he would not. So don't worry about it! It could be the teacher had to interview a lot and maybe short on time.

Last one today for us too although unfortunately the teacher interviewing my daughter was very dry and kept interrupting her mid answer to move on to the next question - she barely got any words out, not that she was rambling at all - maybe just made it to the first point that she would have discussed about hobbies or favourite sports. It put my daughter completely on the back foot and left her feeling quite disheartened. Sadly she will need to carry this with her till offer day . A very big difference from the other interviews she had but unfortunately this was one of her favourite schools. Anyone been through something similar? I have tried telling her that it does not necessarily mean that she would not do well (although I’m not quite sure I believe this myself!) and she is a very practical minded girl, but this experience seems to have really dented her confidence, especially having gotten through two rounds of tests to get to this stage.

We are done too - last one was yesterday. Glad it's over for DD but the nerves will start jangling for us through offer day!

Any idea how many offers Emaile would make on 10+ please ?

We’re mostly done now; an interview on Monday and another on Wednesday- and then just the long wait! Hope everyone else is almost through also.

I spoke to Miss Rollino who is the head of admissions while waiting for my child to return from the interview and that’s what she said.

Just got an invite to interview for Alleyns on Saturday. Was expecting to hear tomorrow so a nice surprise. Does anyone know what the group & interview are like?

The places-to-offers ratio is a school's expected yield. Yields tell you more about local competition than about a school's quality; some very good schools are seen as backups to even more sought after schools so have low yields.

The offers-to-interviews ratio, for schools that don't interview all applicants, has been around 70%-75% for the (few) schools I have credible numbers for.

We have the SPGS interview this weekend.

My daughter missed a lot of her schools interview prep sessions and practice mock due to test clashes..

Does anyone have a tips or recommendations for a tutor I can book a mock / practice session with?

The 11+ on Saturday was teams of 4

It looked like about 8-10

@MunchkinJ 10+ interviews at Emanuel are on Wednesday 21st

Does anyone know how many children are in a group interview at Emanuel?

The offers to places ratios are never published or communicated by admissions staff so I think all of these are guesstimates.

If you are invited for interview its because you are someone they would like to offer a place to, so you will have a good chance of getting an offer with a decent interview performance / by avoiding any red flags in the interview

I think focussing on that is more useful than trying to estimate such ratios

Using those figures I think Kings is also 1.3x, latymer 1.5x and Alleyns and Hampton 2x

Those guesses sound very good to me, having studied the offers/acceptance ratios of my local 5 sw London prep schools. Which group would you put Alleyns in?

The Emanuel 10+ is on Wednesday.

300 offers to fill 100 places sounds about right for a school that's popular but not everyone's first choice. My best guess (not based on any insider knowledge but knowing how university admissions works very well) is that the St Paul's of the world offer about 1.3x places, the Latymer Upper/G&L tier1.5-2x places, and about 3x at the next rank down.

Yes, I’d also thought about 600 (72 in each slot, 8 slots). I now wonder if 10+ applicants were also interviewing yesterday given @Whenwillthisendplease’s numbers

would you have the numbers for the 10+ at Emanuel please? they have 48 places to fill, I am interested in how many places they over offer by, boy versus girls !!! quite niche !

They told me they interview the majority of applicants - i was estimating that they interview 600 based on today's volumes + overflow interviews on Monday. Where did you hear 400 from?

I read on here that Emanuel make something like 300 offers although that feels high.

Hiya this is super interesting … can I ask how you found out these numbers? My daughter was there this morning and had a really lovely time!

For posterity, I thought I should share that Emanuel had 1,000 applicants this year, of which they interview 400 to fill 96 places. I’m sure they over-offer, but the interview is still a very competitive process.

Our DD was very positive at pick up, she said the two teachers seemed to be happy with her responses in her opinion and they were friendly and kind. Not going to lie: we will be gutted if she doesn’t get in at this stage 😩😩 sending positive vibes to everyone today!!

Anyone finished King’s interview by now? How did your ds feel, any tricky questions?