1st March offer day - anyone else nervous?

[NynaevesSister]

I am really sure we will get one of our six. But I just don't know which one. And I am now really worried I put them down in the wrong order. Our first choice had a stabbing incident after applications closed.

Tardigrade001 is it the eadmissions website? I keep checking it can't see where to look on it.

I've been nervous about it for weeks and checked at 3am when DD woke up to find that DS1 has been allocated his first choice. So relieved as we're out of catchment and it's really popular, and we've not been lucky with school applications thus far! Anyway, I'm relieved as our catchment area school is awful so if he hadn't got in, we'd have been putting our house on the market and moving in order to be in catchment in time for next year's applications! So glad I don't have to start packing!

Is anyone waiting in Herts? We've been told 'late afternoon' and that nothing will be online until emails have been sent out. DS took the Herts Consortium Schools 11+ plus style test and whilst he got a good mark I just don't know how it will compare to others this year. Not at all keen on the local comp. Feeling horribly nervous.

We are in Herts as well. DS and DH have heart set on a selective school - but I know he got lower than the score they stated so I am not hopeful at all. I just know his whole confidence will be dented if he doesn't get in so I am really nervous.

What is late afternoon? 4pm? 5pm? 3.30pm? Its so horribly vague and I am checking my emails constantly just in case its earlier.

Me too cuckoooo, not getting anything done today. It would have been nice to know by the time they come out of school. Fingers crossed for you as well.

Two years ago the Herts emails came out in batches, which was rather frustrating. Some got theirs at about 3.00, others had to wait until 10.00 (or even later according to my DD). Ours arrived about 8, I think. We never managed to work out any logic in the order.

Thanks angelcake20.

Has anyone actually received their allocation yet? My sister up north has but no one I know down south.

I cant even log in :/

Oh gawd really Angelcake20? Bloody hell. I shall be a wreck.

Midlands here ours were emailed just after midnight.

The Kingsdale waiting list sure is a mysterious thing.

Oxfordshire here too. Still no email, but just logged into admissions website and dd got her first choice - she'll be v pleased!

Bristol - we got our second choice. Pretty ok with it but can't shake the feeling our first choice would have been more exciting! Dd doesn't know yet. We could go on waiting list but depends what dd wants.

Kendrick has 50 waiting list with top score is 114.06.. Hence my daughter has chance to go in . She got more than that. But no post I received yet.

bibbitybobbityyhat Fingers crossed for your DC!

Two of my son's classmates got in via waiting list last year. Friend with daughter in Y8 there got 2nd choice Sydenham, all set to go there, labelled uniform and everything, and then got a call from Kingsdale in early August!

It's DC2's favourite at the mo (in Y5), and a mere 15 minute walk away. I haven't the heart to tell her that a grade 1 in violin isn't necessarily going to mean a music scholarship, and the lottery means she has as much chance as getting into the grammar school as Kingsdale.

Hope you get what you want.

Does anyone know, if you are offered your first choice school, but then change your mind and panic and worry like myself because you actually want your 3rd choice, is it possible to appeal that?

It depends on which council you are under.

From what I understand, usually if you got one of your choices you cannot appeal. Considering it is your first choice, it is less likely. I am sure there are exceptions. You can appeal if you don't get any of your choices.

Could you ask to be waitlisted for the third option? If it was me, I would do that and then call/email often enough to show how interested you are.

My two are at other schools SydenhamHillier. I make my comment as a dispassionate outsider who has seen some completely inexplicable outcomes from that particular "lottery" amongt my friends and neighbours children. I assumed op was talking about Kdale in her op, suppose I could have been wrong.