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London area - offer letter issues?

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avel · 02/03/2019 09:39

Hi all

Logged into eadmissions last night and I know what offer we got (4th choice, not what we were hoping for). However - we got the text message telling us an email had been sent, it has never arrived (and no, it’s not in spam). Did anyone else have this issue? Wondering if letter might contain any more info than on the website, but also wondering whether we are the only ones who had this happen...

Thanks

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Sweetnhappy1 · 02/03/2019 09:56

Yes, we still haven't received the email.

FlumePlume · 02/03/2019 09:57

No email here either. And I have checked my spam folder.

ninjawarriorsocks · 02/03/2019 10:00

London area here too - I got an email from eadmissions which basically just said the school we’d been offered and to accept or decline by 15 March.

newmum0808 · 02/03/2019 10:01

Yup, no text or email here either (but it was on the website and the app)

SarfE4sticated · 02/03/2019 10:01

We didn't get an email either, but I logged on at 5 and there it was - misery has reigned ever since. We didn't get 1st choice, and I am now unsure about what happens. I know you are automatically put on waiting list for 1 choice, but do you have to lodge an appeal too, or is that a separate thing? (sorry for hijack OP)

GlowWine · 02/03/2019 10:09

Different LEA here but no email either. Checked online it's all 'okay' school allocation was published Fri 12.04 AM. Do I wait for the paper letter (assuming there is one!) to confirm/accept my offer?

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avel · 02/03/2019 10:18

SarfE4, appeal is a different process and you shouldn’t appeal except on grounds relating to special cases or suggestion that the LA hasn’t followed the documented rules. Wait list is (I believe everywhere? Definitely in London) is automatic for your preferences higher in the list than what was offered, so you go ahead and accept your current offer and then follow up to confirm waiting list status.

GlowWine, at least in London you accept online on the website, no paper letter coming nor required.

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SarfE4sticated · 02/03/2019 10:24

Thanks Avel your advice is very much appreciated.
It's all so bluddy stressful. Y6 children just don't seem big enough to go to secondary school, and I am petrified that DD won't cope. I know that she will really, but in the wee small hours it feels really scary.

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avel · 02/03/2019 10:34

Don’t trust my advice too much, just parroting what I’ve read from others! Yes it is stressful, seems like such a huge gamble and people get very invested in pushing for what they think will be the best choice and deapairingnif they can’t have it, but in reality it’s all changing all the time (the school, your child, the application process... everything!), and it’s hard to know what will turn out for the best! I’m just as involved in the whole “do we try to get our heads round the current offer, do we hold tight on waiting list because we think it’s a better choice, what would an appeal look like/is there justification, what if we went private would it open up anything helpful and could I live without my holidays for the next decade”.... etc :o.
Good luck!

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SarfE4sticated · 02/03/2019 10:43

I've had all of those thoughts too Avel, my midnight search history covers most public local independent schools, cheap houses, remortgage rates etc. It mostly comes down to the other children in their new class I think, will they find some kindred spirits and learn interesting stuff. I just hyperventilate at the thought of gang violence and the journey to and from school .

Bekabeech · 02/03/2019 10:49

Just to add you can appeal for all sorts of reasons not just "special cases" and "LA mistakes". In fact in the latter, even if one has been made it might not help your child, as it could be other children who would have got in without it.
Any reason your child would be more disadvantaged by not going to X school, than other children at X would be disadvantaged by one more student, can be used.
And I would suggest making sure you are on the waiting lists in about a week, just in case.

TheVonTrappFamilySwingers · 02/03/2019 10:56

I had a text and an email. I think on the eadmissions website they said each year they always have problems sending emails out to yahoo, bt internet and hotmail accounts for some reason. My email is google. Anyway the email repeats what the website says.

TheVonTrappFamilySwingers · 02/03/2019 11:00

From the website.

SarfE4sticated · 02/03/2019 11:02

Thank you Bekabeech. I doubt we will appeal, because I imagine that places went to children nearer and siblings. I was unclear about whether to accept the existing offer or not, but good to know that you do.
This whole process has been very stressful!

Zinnia · 02/03/2019 12:57

No email here either (doesn't matter as logged in at 5 and had accepted the place by 5.10!), and the acknowledgement email came through fine. Sounds like a bit of a glitch...

paxillin · 02/03/2019 13:02

We could log in yesterday from 5pm, but the email only came 10 minutes ago.

SarfE4sticated · 02/03/2019 13:02

Just got my email now! Text was 5.20pm yesterday

FanDabbyFloozy · 02/03/2019 13:10

Yes the mails are still coming through. Clearly some batch job has just been restarted.
The website crashed under volume between 5-5.15 yesterday.

Zinnia · 02/03/2019 13:27

Just checked my junk mail and it arrived at 12.25. Yep, still the same school!

FlumePlume · 02/03/2019 13:56

Mine arrived half an hour ago - not to spam folder.

Melfish · 02/03/2019 23:05

Letter by post put the furthest distances offered for each school and contact details about appeals (some schools appear to do their own, others use the council), along with contact numbers for the school admissions officers.

The letter arrived before the email!

HotpotLawyer · 02/03/2019 23:49

*Sar4East”: go on waiting lists,, and you can now also go on waiting lists for schools you did’t orignally apply for.

You absolutely can appeal to the higher preference schools (not to any you didn’t apply to).

If your preferred school offers particular subjects, extra curricular activities or policies that your son needs then you can appeal by demonstrate how your Ds will be disadvantaged by not attending more than the school will by admitting him.

meandthem · 03/03/2019 00:44

London area (SE) here too - we have no offers at all for either of my two children showing on eadmissions, nor have we received any emails or texts to date (now Sunday morning). However an offer letter arrived in the post for my son on Saturday, but nothing still for his sister.
We moved between October 31st and the cut off date for change of address and seem to have been "fallen off" the eadmissions process as a result. Would have saved some anguish if we had known about this!
Now hoping for offer letter to arrive on Monday for my daughter.
Has anyone else dropped off the eadmissions system for similar reasons?

Bekabeech · 03/03/2019 08:06

Sorry but you can appeal to any school, but you won't have time energy to do too many. The only restriction is one appeal per school per year (unless something major happens like a major new health crisis for your child).

formerbabe · 03/03/2019 09:26

In London...saw the offer online on the Friday but didn't get the email until yesterday afternoon.

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