Kingsdale Waitlist Movement, anyone have experience of moving later in year 7 or year 8?

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The dreaded Secondary offer letter arrived last week, and we didn't get any of our six choices. Our local schools both got very popular in the last year and we are now "out of catchment". Kingsdale Foundation School was our first preference, and we are 105 on the random allocation waiting list (Band 2). I know its a complete unknown, but am just curious to hear if anyone managed to get in at such a high waitilist number, eg around Christmas in year 7 or even later in year 8? We are just trying to weigh up all our options. Thank you!

The waiting list number is largely meaningless at kingsdale, as the random allocation is rerun whenever people join the list, according to the admissions policy.

What they should be doing is rerunning it when ever a place comes available, but I think it's been discussed before that they do it the other way round.