Are there any non-selective at 6th form private schools in London?

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or do they all want DCs with bucket loads of A*s at GCSE?

obviously they will be selective as in if you can't pay you can't get in, but do they all select academically? Hope someone knows? Thanks!

yes that's true isn't it tiggytape - on reflection my older DD's state school had minimum requirement GCSE results in order to do A'levels there.

What I'm wondering is which London schools are less demanding shall we say about GCSE results. The ones I've looked at online so far require the best results possible. DD2 is unlikely to achieve A's and A*'s in everything. She may get an A for Art and might just might for English as well, but is more likely to get B's and C's for everything else.

Does that mean a London private school is out of the question? There must be somewhere that very rich, "nice but dim" types go. I am not calling DD nice but dim..... just wondering what happens to non-academic types whose parents are the kind that would never consider state school!

possibly North London but could be anywhere!
Is there a consortium or something I can search for more info?
I've found King Alfreds but that is all so far.

thank you!

Try Princess Helena College in Herts - 30 mins from North London.

DLD college was pretty omnivorous, however, I got feeling that majority of them would take anyone not overly troubled. Go to the league tables and cross out the top, say, ten, and the rest is yours.

I would qualify Ms Averages point by saying even the top girls' schools lose a fair tranche of pupils to coed
sixth forms at 16 (for which competition is intense), so they tend to have more leavers than joiners and will not be as competitive to get into. Some of the top ones have exams for entry that give them an indication of ability and will take a state school pupil with lower grade if they have shown the potential to do well. But agree schools further down the league tables will consider pupils without an avalanche of A and A*. However most of the indies will expect an A in the subjects they are hoping to study.

Even the top schools were relaxing the required grades in English /English Lit last year after they too were effected by Gove's deflationary tactics.

The Central London Colleges like DLD specifically cater for those who choose to jump ship out of mainstream schools both state and private, for a variety of reasons. I have known clever pupils who thrived there but also DCs who got in with some bad crowds.