SW London grammar and private year 7 entry 2024.

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https://www.mumsnet.com/talk/secondary/4907226-sw-london-grammar-and-private-year-7-entry-2024

This is the previous link. Hope it works.

@minipie oh yours has come today ?

Nervous now it's a negative

Not received mine

(Waving to @Lolakath19 , as a last year fellow traveller)

to add, from last year,
KGS - 9.20 am
Emanuel - 9.40 am
Harrodian - 11.35 am
Ibstock - 4.24 pm

To note, WHS offer was updated on the portal before the emails were out (at least more than one hour earlier). So worth checking there too.

Good luck to all!

Sorry yes I realise my original post was unclear

We had a yes email from Jags at 9.21 today

Don’t worry if yours hasn’t come yet though, from watching this thread and last year’s equivalent there seem to be lots of schools who drip out their emails gradually and the timing doesn’t seem to mean yes or no!

Just got an offer , thank you

@ALongProcess it does help me lool i like to know that way i wont keep refreshing my emails all morning🤦🏻‍♀️thanks😛

Ah that’s great hannsmum!

Woo hoo @hannsmum 🥳

@QuiteAJourney thanks that is an accurate response 😅finger crossed everyone i will turn 1000 times during the night 🤣

Thanks a lot @minipie and @Bewler

im happy we have come to the end of this nerve wracking process . its been crazy.

Now its time to go through the painful process of deciding for a school.we have two scholarship offers (including bursary) from Sydenham high and Croydon high. and an offer (almost full bursary) from JAGS.

i was kind of slightly hoping for a rejection from JAGS so it makes choosing earlier as we were likely going for SHS. But now im confused as my DD will now change her mind to JAGS.

SHS is closer to us and I know JAGS is quite at the top of those two but I don't want to go for the hype of JAGS as they are extremely competitive and my daughter is not sporty at all and I don't want her feeling left out

PHS also out.

hannsmum that’s a nice position to be in! I would say look around the schools again, ask the questions you have in mind. I think you can be quite direct about any concerns once you are holding an offer. You could hopefully ask some students, who might give a more unvarnished answer!

PHS waiting list for us

Thanks for the heads up @safetyzone I was sitting on my hands not to refresh for the millionth time. We have a PHS offer with a music scholarship so happy indeed. Fingers crossed for the other DDs on this thread.

We have a PHS offer! So pleased for our DD

I don't know what JAGS is like now, as I just have a son so didn't look into it. However I went there 30 or so years ago and was completely un-sporty. It definitely wasn't an issue then. There were lots of non-sporty girls who got more involved in drama, music and art. It may have changed but I'd hope it's still really strong in those areas.

PHS offer here!!! I can’t explain the relief!!! Can’t wait to tell DD after school!!

Waitlist for PHS here also. Does anyone know how many people are waitlisted ?

@CocoC I believe the WL is long but I guess many drop off as they accept offers elsewhere. I know ppl last year who got in via WL but also some who didn't. It only moved on the acceptance day very close to the deadline so the uptake must have been quite high last year.

Does anyone have any insight into the JAGS waiting list? 🤞🤞

No insight, but I noted it was described as a 'short' wait list on the key dates section of the website, suggests perhaps not used as extensively as some schools?

Thank you so much - I have just reread it and the fact it says “short” is giving me a bit of hope

It depends on the year, with factors including whether they have recently had a bumper year (making more difficult to accommodate another one), the number of girls that they know for certain are coming through, and offer to acceptance ratios in previous years.
As others have said, they went to WL last year but rather last moment and, by then, quite a few people had taken offers elsewhere ... especially as PHS refused to share where in the WL people where.

in case useful, more generally,

• beware that acceptance deadlines differ slightly (sometimes it can work to your advantage, I know of people that got a WL from PHS, which that year had an earlier deadline, just hours before they were due to sign with Emanuel)
• some acceptances bind you not only to the deposit but payment of first term

Good luck to everyone waiting for results tomorrow. Not sure I’m going to sleep much tonight. Luckily DS is far more chilled about the whole thing. Hoping they send them nice and early so some work can be done 😂

Good luck @travelturtle and all. We’re nearly there