Tiffin Girls' Waiting List 2013

[Snowdaddy]

Just heard from Tiffin today, DD2 got a place!

congratrulations, are you able to give your DD2 test score as it will give others an indication

[bigcat]

Her score was one mark below the " cut off" mark

[Snowdaddy]

2 months on from National offer day and this thread seems to have gone rather quiet.

[tiffinboys]

There would be movement in TGS as reading from posts in other regions, some TGS girls have now got places in HBS.

[Snowdaddy]

Have just heard from another mum that the waiting list has moved again, her daughter who is on the list has moved up a few places.
Sounds like the cut-off score is now 48.00 - 48.99 (don't know the decimal hundredths)

[Snowdaddy]

Seems to list continues to move, understand another girl at my daughters primary recently gained a place. So congratulations to her.

Doubt if the distance tie-breaker has much use now as the ranking marks now have 10,000 discrete values (100% to two decimals), whereas old scheme often meant there were often 5-15 people on same score, so for each score nearest got offer first.

Presumably for list to continue to move some DDs must be giving up their TGS place in favour of places recently freed up elsewhere.

Am I right in thinking anyone with a successful appeal could effectively jump in at top of waiting list as they would be re-ranked in the original 1st march list (and in certain circumstances if errors were made, that meant they should already have been offered a place, would get in, even if its over PAN).

[tabasco]

Seems to list continues to move, understand another girl at my daughters primary recently gained a place. So congratulations to her.

Doubt if the distance tie-breaker has much use now as the ranking marks now have 10,000 discrete values (100% to two decimals), whereas old scheme often meant there were often 5-15 people on same score, so for each score nearest got offer first.

Presumably for list to continue to move some DDs must be giving up their TGS place in favour of places recently freed up elsewhere.

Am I right in thinking anyone with a successful appeal could effectively jump in at top of waiting list as they would be re-ranked in the original 1st march list (and in certain circumstances if errors were made, that meant they should already have been offered a place, would get in, even if its over PAN).

For DDs who won an appeal would get a place irrespective to their W/L position! If it is over PAN that will just slow down the movement of the W/L until the number of DDs offered a place is below PAN again.

[London_Mum]

All successful appellants are automatically allocated a place at the school even if it takes the school above PAN (published admissions number).
This means that the list will move more slowly as the school cannot start to offer places from it until the year group is back below PAN again.
So if they admit 3 on appeal to an already full Year 7, 4 children would need to reject their places before any waiting list offer could be made.