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Choosing Sixth Form

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SherwoodForest · 24/08/2022 19:13

I'm looking for advice on sixth form choice. My DD will get her GCSE results tomorrow.
She has been offered provisional places at her current school (which she does not want to stay at) and two other highly regarded over-subscribed local schools. She is happy to attend either of these but slightly prefers one of them.
This is the first time I've been involved in choosing a sixth form other than staying at the current school so unsure on what to do. I suggested she keeps her options open on all of them until she knows her results. If she does as well as predicted, she can go to her preferred school. If she does badly, she will get offered different courses and I don't really know which school would still offer something she is happy with.
She has enrolment tomorrow at one and Friday at the other. When should she turn down the ones she is not going to? Is it bad to have got to this stage accepting more than one provisional offer?
Any advice please.

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CupboardOfThings · 24/08/2022 19:33

Watching. My eldest has applied and got an offer to a seperate sixth form, plus an offer from current school. Plus wants to reapply to a third, dependent on results. So we are in limbo too and watching for answers!

SherwoodForest · 24/08/2022 19:43

@CupboardOfThings I'm glad I'm not the only one.

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SherwoodForest · 24/08/2022 20:35

Anyone with advice please?

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TeenDivided · 25/08/2022 06:09

Enroll at the one she wants and qualifies for.
You don't need to do anything else (if you don't enroll when they say then they will assume she has gone elsewhere) though it would be polite to let them know, especially if there is an online way of doing it.

If she needs to discuss courses, then discuss courses with all and then decide.

aramox1 · 25/08/2022 07:23

Mine has three offers too. I imagine even if you change your mind after enrolling at one you could - is it centralised in any way?

Mumsafan · 25/08/2022 15:06

My DD is heading into year 11 in September. We have looked at one sixth form so far and she is happy to apply for it as it is local and offers a better sixth form than where she is. (both schools are private)
However there are also 2/3 local grammar schools , all co-ed in the sixth form and we are also going to look at them.
I think a lot will depend on what offer she gets from the school she has already applied to. Her current school will be very pleased for her to stay there but they haven;t got the facilities for her chosen path.
I would much rather we knew for certain where she was going but I can see the coming year as full of ups and dows/ ums and ahs!

alwaysfactor50 · 25/08/2022 19:33

My daughter had 3 offers, all her friends were the same and they just made the decision this morning.

StrongerThanYouTh1nk · 13/02/2023 08:27

Thank you for this thread, we're in a similar position with DD having three conditional offers and not sure what the next steps are and when we need to choose a single one. We do have a clear favourite but based on the advice above will wait until the taster days to decide.

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