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Sixth form offers

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hooplahoop · 19/09/2022 20:04

My son is about to start visiting sixth forms, and is torn between a place that does B- techs and one for A levels . Is it possible to accept multiple ( presuming he gets offers ) and decide in the summer ?

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HonorHiding · 19/09/2022 20:28

Yes, both possible and normal!

hooplahoop · 19/09/2022 20:30

Phew! Thanks

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Sausagerollfiend · 19/09/2022 20:35

You can apply to multiple sixth forms/colleges.

Word of warning though, we ended up accepting a conditional offer in March and this seemed to end all correspondence with the other sixth forms. I don't know how the other places found out, but the school where he did his GCSEs had it on the system that he had chosen his place. So we had no more info sent to us from the other places.

I'm only putting this so you are aware in case your dc wants to be flexible until he has his results that in some areas it can be less straightforward.

hooplahoop · 19/09/2022 21:51

so would you say the advice is to apply but not accept ? I’m already feeling awkward that he might not stay at his school as they are really trying to encourage him to stay …

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TeenDivided · 20/09/2022 06:45

In my area, Hants, where it is all colleges, it is definitely standard to receive and hold offers for multiple places. You then decide either after taster days in July, or when you actually get your results.
I don't think I have ever seen someone on here say what Sausage said before, seems unusual.
Worth checking with your school what the system is, just in case I guess.

DFOD · 20/09/2022 07:15

Same here and then on results day if you didn’t get an offer at one but have good results call and ask to be considered - there is a lot of movement at results time. Even in the first week - 5 new people left my DD sixth form in the first week.

Sausagerollfiend · 20/09/2022 08:11

To be fair, I don't believe we were 100% tied into the sixth form we accepted, but, as I said, we didn't get anything from the other colleges once we'd accepted that offer. I emailed to ask about induction days, but had no response. When he got his results, his school had it on the system that he was going to the sixth form we'd conditionally accepted. We didn't formally tell his school, so they must have been told by the sixth form.

The child benefit form you receive (we had ours in May) asks which college they will be attending in September.

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