Has anyone received an email from a school before offer day?

[Comedycook]

Hi...I'm a bit worried and confused and wondering if this has happened to anyone else.

I made my secondary application and am waiting for 1st March offer day to find out....all to state schools.

Today I received an email from my second choice school thanking me for putting it down and saying that if I accept an offer, they will send me more information.

I am now concerned that this means it will be where we are offered (my heart is set on first choice!) How do they have my details? I assumed that the schools only receive our details if that's where we are going to be offered? Or do the schools receive the details of everyone who put it down as one of their choices regardless of whether they will be offered it or not?

Thanks in advance!

I am a school governor (primary). I sit on the admissions committee and we get a list of all of the applicants to our school which we work through and rank according to admissions criteria. As far as I know we don’t contact anyone ahead of offer day but it’s possible that we could if we wanted to. Hope that helps anyone else who is looking for this thread.