How confident are you of getting your first choice in March?

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Goes out to those who have applied for a school place of course!

Really want our first choice as I didn't put down a second!
The next nearest school only takes 13 pupils and is definately over subscribed and the 2 other schools in the area are the same.

May have to start reading the HE threads

Indiechick, is the one your daughter wants usually oversubscribed? If not you can always change your preference after allocations have been sent out. They HAVE to take you if under stated admission number.

The other thing is, you are probably right to go with your gut instinct on choice of school. Was your preference better than daughters in league table?

I have applied for my son to go to a different school to his friends. The local is usually undersubscribed and I have reasoned that I can always take him out if he really hates it. Dont beat yourself up too much, parenting ain't easy!

Yeah the one dd wants is heavily over-subscribed and we're wouldn't have been guaranteed a place. They're about the same league table wise. My choice is smaller, seemed better, but she's less likely to know other children there. Don't think I can change my mind now as her choice is so popular and hard to get into. If I'd put it first we probably wouldn't have got a place. And she's only 3, can't really expect her to pick her own school. And you're right, I can always pull her out if she really hates it. We're planning on moving house 2009/10 so she probably won't be there forever.

I spoke to the bursar last week after a snotty letter from the council informing me that I hadn;t applied for a state school place so would be allocated any school.

The bursar said that as ds is in the nursery and has a sibling it is very likely he will get a place. He has to go to an open day/assesment but she said the nursery would have told us by now if they thought he wasn;t suited to the school.

LEA man still wants me to apply for a place though just in case. I can't see the point as if ds doesn't get in to our chosen school I will be looking for a place somewhere for 2 children as he isn't going to a different school than dd.

How are you supposed to manage if siblings don't get same place? I know that rule is harsh sometimes, reducing catchment areas to less that 0.2 miles one year at our nearest school, but you can't manage two children (or more) at different primaries surely?

I've only put one choice for dd starting primary - it's the school ds leaves in July. I'll have to rethink if she doesn't get in (unlikely). Sadly all her friends from pre-school are going to a different village school.
More concerned with ds - there's only one of the 3 schools we listed we would actually be prepared to send him to, and it's selective, 10 miles away and he's dyslexic. Ah well, can't do anything about it now. It's my 3rd time in 4 years of sec school applications.

it could go either way with choices 1 and 2. choice 1 is RC, choice 2 is C of E. We're RC, and priest ticked the 'weekly' box on my form and wrote we were a 'lovely family' but, heh, he could be writing that for everyone.

really want choice 1, school lovely and headmaster great and new as well so hopefully likely to stay a while. really liked his way of thinking. chocie 2 was a great school but HM had some very odd ideas about childcare, real life etc.

over 150 kids applied last year for 30 places in school choices 1 and 2.

choice 3 is a bit dire, but improving i think, and within walking distance.