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SW London Private and Grammar - applying for Year 7 in 2023 (Part VI)

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QuiteAJourney · 09/02/2023 21:11

Following from our previous thread (link below)

www.mumsnet.com/talk/secondary/4731973-sw-london-private-and-grammar-applying-for-year-7-in-2023-part-v?page=40&reply=123775541

Looking forward to continuing the journey together!

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Lolakath19 · 10/02/2023 15:24

@Daydreamscometrue Thanks
Feeling very proud of her :)

momomamiko · 10/02/2023 15:24

LU email just arrived and it is a yes for us - so happy for DC as it is his top choice!

Lolakath19 · 10/02/2023 15:25

well done @momomamiko

momomamiko · 10/02/2023 15:28

Thank you @Lolakath19 such a relief, eh?

Shiningsun · 10/02/2023 15:35

hey, does anyone know if G&L goes into their waitlist each year to offer admissions? Do you know of anyone who got into G&L through waitlist?

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QuiteAJourney · 10/02/2023 15:35

momomamiko · 10/02/2023 15:24

LU email just arrived and it is a yes for us - so happy for DC as it is his top choice!

Splendid news! Congrats!

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QuiteAJourney · 10/02/2023 15:36

Lolakath19 · 10/02/2023 15:13

We just received the email and it is a YES loooooool I cant believe it. I did not want to open the email as was sure it would be no...

Yay! What an amazing set of results!

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momomamiko · 10/02/2023 15:37

QuiteAJourney · 10/02/2023 15:35

Splendid news! Congrats!

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@QuiteAJourney thank you! all is well that ends well :)

Daydreamscometrue · 10/02/2023 15:40

Shiningsun · 10/02/2023 15:35

hey, does anyone know if G&L goes into their waitlist each year to offer admissions? Do you know of anyone who got into G&L through waitlist?

I'd be surprised if they don't this year. I get the impression schools have kept more of a waiting list as opposed to over offering this year.

Schoolgate225 · 10/02/2023 15:41

IPS are out - just had our email

Lolakath19 · 10/02/2023 15:42

Thank you so much everyone for the support, so glad to have had this chat to get through the process

Yarnie · 10/02/2023 15:42

LU WL for us. A little disappointed but in some ways it makes things easier as Emanuel is our DS’ first choice. Will contact LU and see if I can find out where he is on the list.

Nutmegger · 10/02/2023 15:47

Could someone outline what this thread is about? What's WL? What difference does it make if a child gets accepted to a particular school? Why do people get rejected? What age are these kids? I'm from a different country.

Shiningsun · 10/02/2023 15:49

G&L & Putney admissions team say that they don’t rank the waiting list. How do they make their WL offers in that case? Or is it just a cover story to keep the admissions process completely opaque?

FlanPlan · 10/02/2023 15:49

Shiningsun · 10/02/2023 15:35

hey, does anyone know if G&L goes into their waitlist each year to offer admissions? Do you know of anyone who got into G&L through waitlist?

Yes, several. Pretty much all the schools will dip into the wait list as children with multiple offers start to hand them back. How far they dip into it will tend to depend on how much they have over-offered.

UKUSMum · 10/02/2023 15:53

Don’t forget too that wait list placement may be pointless too - people withdraw from WLs as they accept other offers.

@Nutmegger trust me, you don’t want to know. It’s the London secondary schools version of The Hunger Games.

Shiningsun · 10/02/2023 15:54

FlanPlan · 10/02/2023 15:49

Yes, several. Pretty much all the schools will dip into the wait list as children with multiple offers start to hand them back. How far they dip into it will tend to depend on how much they have over-offered.

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Won’t it be simpler if they reveal the waitlist number of each kid and end this torture or like WHS inform if a student is in top, middle or bottom tier of waitlists? Maybe the schools feel embarrassed when they have to dig into their bottom tier of waitlist to fill the seats. But hey, these are tiny kids who may make you proud later.

GQ22 · 10/02/2023 15:56

@Nutmegger the UK is weird in that it has an (ethically dubious) two-tiered education system. Most of the schools in the country are non selective and take in children based on distance and siblings. But a significant number of schools take in students based on academic tests and interviews. Most of these are also fee paying private schools.

These selective schools are incredibly competitive - with the most selective schools often having over 2000 applicants for fewer than 200 spaces.

Today is the day when the majority of fee paying schools release offers to their candidates. Many children who have not received an offer will be put on a waiting list (WL). A WL place will often turn into an offer as other children reject schools in favour of other schools.

The other UK oddity is that we do run this process quite young. The majority of kids mentioned in this thread will be 10 years old.

Notskiiing · 10/02/2023 15:59

Wonder what is taking Ibstock so long. 4pm and nothing!

Nutmegger · 10/02/2023 16:01

Thank you @GQ22 ! I was going mad trying to figure it all out.

And lol @UKUSMum , from here it really does look like the London secondary schools version of The Hunger Games.
10 years old is very young for all this!!!!!

NellyCortado · 10/02/2023 16:24

Ibstock emails landing...

NellyCortado · 10/02/2023 16:27

@UKUSMum - Hunger Games! That gave me a proper laugh 😄

Vista123 · 10/02/2023 16:27

I think that the admissions staff at Ibstock are going to email and then run (away from their phones/ screens) bearing in mind how poor their admissions process has been so far…..Not impressed.
ps if anyone is throwing an offer for Harrodian back into the pot, please do let me know. We have some other offers but my DD was turned down prior to interview at Harrodian but would literally chew her own arm off to get a place there! I don’t care that she’s not on the WL and will still ask in weeks to come. All info gratefully received!
pps huge congratulations for everyone on this thread- both DC and parents, whether you have offers (yet) or not. We are all Hunger Games survivors!

Asham · 10/02/2023 16:27

We got the St. John’s email
and Ibstock. It was a no from St Johns and a yes from IPS!! I am over the moon

Notskiiing · 10/02/2023 16:32

Still no email from IPS here

@Vista123 what happened with your admissions process for Ibstock?

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