Is anyone else waiting to hear what primary school their child has got into?

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I'm biting my nails off here!

We screwed our application and only put one choice (don't ask). Thought we would get something even if the one selection was oversubscribed. Shocked - offered nothing!

Has anyone have experience of this?

Weren't you advised on your application form to apply for more than one school, Icannotbelieveit? On ours it says not to just put down one school, just in case you don't get it. It would have been likely in our town that we wouldn't have got our first choice as the schools are all oversubscribed this year.

You'll need to get onto Admissions asap and see if there are any places left anywhere else, and stay on the waiting list for your first choice.

we haven't got an email either (London), but website shows result.

We got 3rd choice. PITA to get to work after dropping DD off, and further away than first 2 choices. I suppose I should be grateful we can still walk there and DD will know some children in her year. It's a solid 3 on OFSTED but I suppose that means they'll be pulling their socks up now.

icannot sorry no experience of no place, waiting lists?

I thought they had a legal obligation to find a place somewhere Icannotbelieveit. Are you somewhere where there is an actual shortage of places - like a very oversubscribed London borough? Might you have to wait until all the people who gave options have confirmed whether they are taking them to work out if any schools have any places at all or whether you have to travel out of borough or something?

Sorry, really don't know the answer.

Why on earth did you only put down one school?

Just got my email but had already logged into eadmission and knew the result anyway.

Sausage fingers on the application. Didn't realise mistake till it was too late. :(

Any Lambeth emails yet? Have requested password text/email but no joy yet so I can't get on the admissions site.

Wooohooo! First choice!

I got my Lambeth email at 5.45, bellamysbride.

Where the heck is mine?

icannot sausage fingers, oh dear! have a

THE RESULTS ARE OUT ...

Travelin you are not alone I am winding myself up reading all the responses (congratulations and comiserations as appropriate!)

We also don't find out until Friday (Devon). I do have DD1 and 2 in the school which they love but they are still way down the criteria as we are out of catchment (even with sibs are behind those in catchment). It's a big intake and to make matters worse in the last 2 days I've met 2 more children new to the area or who I thought were going elsewhere.

First choice.
But we'll probably homeschool anyway.

I'm in Lambeth and got my email before 6 but had already logged on to check after 5 (couldn't take the suspense!)

We're really lucky, DD got a place in our first choice of school. I am so relieved... Good luck to everyone who is still waiting.

got mine and my school is 1.6 miles from my house very upset not even on my option list too far away i didn't even view! not sure what i can do???

Michelle - Does your letter explain the furthest child admitted under the distance rules (if you were distance rules. Assume you would have mentioned sibling or special medical issues, etc)? If not, the first thing you need to do is find out how far away you are from each school, and how far away the furthest admitted child was. You could find that you are a very tiny amount off from all four schools, in which case joining all four waiting lists should give you a good chance of a place coming up at at least one of them before September.

We have to wait til May..
May!!!!!!

Amanda - my letter is in the post tomorrow i got on website and saw, i only listed 3 options could this be the reason i got so far away? it says on website i automatically go on waiting list for schools i wanted. I live in sutton. I am so upset i am not sure how i will get him to school and myslef to work everyday

Third choice here. Sort of relieved to get it - any of our top three would have been fine, and I was very worried we wouldn't get any of them - but I did have my heart set on our first choice. The school we've been offered is actually marginally the closest, but it's CofE, and a bit heavy-handed with the religion for me. Didn't actually think we'd get offered it as we don't meet any of the church criteria.

Oh well, we'll go on to the waiting list for our first choice and see what happens.

So relieved got first choice, Julians in Streatham/West Norwood , but still haven't had my email, just did a search under lambeth primary portal and logged in. Have been sweating and feeling irrationally angry just in case she didn't get in all day (ha ha!) Sorry to all the upset mums - we really shouldn't have to go through this stress!

Well, if you only listed three options and didn't qualify for any of them, they will then have given you the nearest school that had a space after everyone who'd specified preferences had been allocated. So if there was another local school you would even have considered, you would have been better filling all your spaces.

But it wouldn't have affected your chances of getting into the three schools you did list.

See what the letter says and, if it doesn't explain about distances (mine didn't), contact the authority and ask.

Not sure about waiting lists. Ours isn't automatic. You have to say whether you are going to accept the school offered, accept and join waiting list(s) or reject and join waiting list (the latter not advised!). I guess that stops people who, say, get their second choice but are perfectly happy from cluttering up the waiting lists.

Amanda - that is crazy rotten luck. I bet it is just one person. With any luck somebody will decline and you get bumped up.. these things can happen. Let us know what happens!

As for me - they sent out the emails two hours earlier than the 6pm they said they would. I was at a swimming lesson at the time, and out of habit hit refresh and my eyes went out on stalks at a differently-titled email from Herts so early. Sure enough it was the allocation email.

We got our third choice, which is the best possible result for us given DC1 was offered a place in year at said school just last week! The other two were great schools but some distance away, and given all the good schools are oversubscribed by a factor of 7-10 times I knew it wouldn't happen but thought I would give it a whirl as I wasn't expecting DC1 to get an offer any time soon.

So the dream scenario has occurred with both DC in the same, very local, school. After six months of fretting over logistics (DC1's current-soon-to-be-ex school is a mile away up a steep hill, and both schools open/close at the same time with limited parking) and wondering where on earth my children would be spending the next best part of a decade, I can finally relax!

We were 155m away, furthest child admitted was nearly 500m and only 11 siblings, not the 20 the school secretary had told me. So we got in easily. The other two schools had around 300m and 400m so not a hope at all, although interestingly one of them is creating a bulge class of 30 but I bet even with that we still wouldn't get in at 900m away. I'm not going to gamble, what we have is more than good enough and an absolute blessing compared to what so many people go through, so I can officially declare an end to School Stress. Which I can't quite believe, actually.. it's been there as a background "thing" for so long now!