How does waiting list work in grammar schools?

[ce09ssa]

After long wait, I received the letter from my second choice grammar school. Her marks is same as the last place offered on 1st of March. Can somebody PLEASE tell me what are her chances of getting into that school. How long do I have to wait?
I can see the light at the end of the tunnel.

If the school decides admissions based on the child's test score your daughter will be at or near the top of the waiting list. However, any late applicants may move ahead of her on the list if they achieve a better test score. Movement on the waiting list should start as soon as someone rejects the place they have been offered.

If you ring the school they should be able to confirm your daughter's position on the waiting list. They may also be willing to tell you how many children were admitted from the waiting list last year, which will give you some idea of your chances.

PRH is assuming that the admission criteria is based on the test scores, which it could well be. It is however possible that the admission criteria is based on achieving a minimum score and the admission criteria such as distance from the school.
Can you confirm what exactly the admission criteria is based on please.

It is based on the criteria of 'out of borough'.
I phoned them in the morning and they didn't tell us anything. They just said wait until end of the month, then we will be in the better position to tell you. As I have mentioned before she had the same mark as the last person offered on the 1st March (in the same criteria mentioned above).

Hi Ce09ssa, we had this last year with DS.

He got offered his third choice grammar school on Offers Day (which we accepted) but then found out he got the cut off score for his second choice grammar. He narrowly missed out on being offered a place first time around based on our home distance from the school. We were, within a week of Offers Day, given very positive reason to believe that his second choice grammar would be in a position "very shortly" to offer him a place, as he was 9th on the waiting list. I think that by the end of March he'd got his second choice school offer and is now happily at that grammar school.

So have faith and good luck to your DD!

Sorry I might have given you false hope - have just read your other thread about being on the waiting list. I misunderstood, I think. DS got the same score as the last boys to be offered a place on 1st March last year but because there were a lot of boys obviously with the same score (and we obviously lived further away than a lot of them, although same side of London, next Borough, quite close to the border) he was 9th on the waiting list.

I think if I have read the other thread correctly that your DD got 14 points less than the last girl offered a place on Offers Day? That will make a considerable difference to her chances depending on numbers of girls with higher scores and bearing in mind that there may be lots of girls sitting on one score.

Sorry .

OOps yes I will crawl back into my hole!

Thanks Tiggytape! You've made me feel less stupid!

Wasn't Tiffin Girls mentioned in OP's other thread....

So glad that we've got another couple of years before being back in this situation again.... !

Just to make matter easy my second choice was Wallington.
I gave hope on Tiffins as everybody said it seems very unlikely to get DD into Tiifins. I am more keen now for my second choice.Let' s see, Fingers cross!!!!!

Wallington certainly seems a more hopeful outcome for you! One of DS's classmates went there and is enjoying it. It has by far the largest intake of any of the SW London grammar schools, so, I would have thought, more likely to have a bit more movement.

Fingers crossed

Call up the local council, they may be able to inform you where you are on the waiting list. If not, I have a feeling that your DD is certainly in the top ten and will soon receive a positive reply from the school.

Having looked at Wallingtons admission criteria it is quite complicated. There is a pass mark for the tests as decided by the school, then it depends on so many allocated places by the actually scores in the tests, so many on two different distances criteria, one from the school and one from another geographical point!
So without knowing exactly where you come in each of the categories it would be very difficult to advice other than keep in touch with the school and ask for more information on where you stand on the waiting list.

HI admission. You are really making me more confuse. We live in Wandsworth and Wallington comes under Sutton. What I think, we come in the first criteria. School is not disclosing anything yet. It's an anxious long wait. We are waiting every day hoping to hear a good news from them.
My DD had scored 378 under the first criteria and the last person went in under this criteria had the same mark 378. What's everybody think? What are my DD's chances in relation to her score under the first criteria at Wallington???????????

I do not come under any catchment bands. Really nervous!!!!!!!!!!1
Does anybody know that how may places were offered after 1st of March?????