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anyone waiting to hear from Latymer Upper?

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fruitcorner · 20/01/2014 09:34

Anyone else still waiting to hear back from LU following exam last week? Interviews are on 1 Feb and I am not sure whether the school has been contacting people yet to call to interview

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dude · 21/01/2014 18:14

We're still waiting. It says they send the letters 'late Jan' - but that's not making me feel any better. DS said the english was fine but the maths was very tricky.

Crowler · 21/01/2014 19:07

Marks place. Waiting!

Marni23 · 21/01/2014 20:04

Just looked back at text messages with friends last year. We all received interview invites for our DC on 29th Jan so guess they were posted 28th. As far as I know they are all sent in one batch. Hang in there and good luck!

Crowler · 21/01/2014 20:36

Blimey, that's late - do you mean you were told of the interview just a day or two before the interview? Or were your interviews later in Feb?
thanks Marni.
How does your son/daughter like Latymer by the way?

Marni23 · 21/01/2014 21:35

Nope interviews were 1st Feb so just a few days before. Everyone was told to keep that date free though as I remember.

DS absolutely loves it thanks. He has settled really well and is very happy, as are we. I think it's a great school.

CountessDracula · 22/01/2014 13:41

Waiting here too...

hardboiled · 22/01/2014 15:14

I heard 1070 sat the exam...?

Crowler · 25/01/2014 07:17

Bump. Did anyone hear?

petangyang · 25/01/2014 10:54

no news here

CountessDracula · 27/01/2014 13:09

1070 Shock
STILL no news though am at work and post not come before I left...

Crowler · 27/01/2014 13:12

I called the school - very nice lady said they were in the post as of noon today.

CountessDracula · 27/01/2014 13:34

Oh well done that's good to know

iwanttohideunderarock · 28/01/2014 09:47

i feel sick.... really hope not to go home to an empty doormat.

Dude, my ds said the same, in fact last night said he didn't think he would get an interview because the maths was so hard.

CountessDracula · 28/01/2014 10:12

I think you get a letter either way
don't feel sick - if not Latymer then somewhere else!
I am a firm believer in the right school finding the right child...

CountessDracula · 28/01/2014 10:14

Also when dd did the 10+ at KGS she came out with a face like thunder and said NFW as the maths was so hard...and she got in!

iwanttohideunderarock · 28/01/2014 10:39

thanks Countess, he didn't get an interview at KCS so I am sort of prepared for a no, but oh you know, it's just hard to see the disappointment on my ds' face, first big hurdles and first big experience of not achieving what he set out to do.

But as you say, something else will work out, and I am sure these schools are expert at choosing who is right for their school.

Good Luck to you, and to everyone !

CountessDracula · 28/01/2014 10:51

These are highly oversubscribed schools though and the odds are not good! Which others have you applied to?

iwanttohideunderarock · 28/01/2014 10:58

Ibstock & Emanuel. Pros and cons for both, I prefer one, my ds prefers the other..... but obviously have to wait and see what happens as we might not have that choice either !!

CountessDracula · 28/01/2014 11:14

I'm sure you will - it's a numbers game innit?

Just had the letter - dd didn't get Latymer so it's KGS for her - quite relieved really as we thought it was the best school for her!

Good luck to everyone else

petangyang · 28/01/2014 15:56

we got a no thanks, onwards and upwards x

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fruitcorner · 28/01/2014 16:50

A no for my DS too , so now waiting for March to find out which local state school we have got.

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CountessDracula · 29/01/2014 09:52

did you hear yet iwanttohideunderarock?

CountessDracula · 29/01/2014 09:53

Sorry to the others - it seems so popular now, the odds are terrible

iwanttohideunderarock · 29/01/2014 11:32

nope, didn't get an interview.

8 children at my son's school applied. he was the only one who didn't get an interview. a very big blow to him, and with nothing tangible yet to latch on to he's finding it terribly hard.

i fear that applying for a bursary has done us a disservice, it would seem a strange co-incidence that 1 out 8 equally bright/top of their class doesn't get an interview and that 1 applied for a bursary.

so as petangyang say, onwards & upwards, but I am feeling really properly fed up with this system and feel like fleeing to the furthest corner of the planet.

mimbleandlittlemy · 29/01/2014 12:20

This happened to us last year, Iwant. My ds is G&T, was considered one of the brightest in a very bright year at his primary and he came out with straight level 6s come the May SATs, but he didn't get an interview for either Hampton or Latymer unlike others in his class. We were applying for bursaries for both schools. He did get offered a place at Emanuel, but no bursary element so we couldn't take it.

He watched, slightly incredulous, as a raft of the girls who scraped, just, Level 4s in Maths and 4s/5s in Literacy in SATs but could all pay got interviews and offers from the all girl schools like NH&E, while he walked away with nothing. One of his friends got an interview for Hampton having not managed to finish either the Maths or English papers.

Looking back I wish I had never put him through it because the honest truth of the matter is that the London day schools talk about bursaries a lot but I don't know anyone who has actually got one.

Fortunately he is reasonably happy and doing very well indeed academically at his state school, which equally fortunately, I always talked up big so it wasn't a scary option.