Berkshireguy wrote:
I am in the same situation .We are equally confused as to what difference HBS can make compared to Kendrick.
My daughter is in BandA for HBS & have scored 119 for Kendrick. I am sure not sure which one should I put as Priority 1. If I Put HBS as priority 1 and if i get it, Will Kendrick not offer me a place???
Although my daughter is in Band A, what guarentee does that offer for a seat, considering we are 30 miles away from the school postcode??
Has anyone gone/ going through similar situation as this last year.
Which local authority do you live in, that its website does not explain the application and allocation system to its residents? You should complain

.
The school you list first should be the school that you and your DD
genuinely want her to join in year 7.
Then put the school that you and she
genuinely want her to join in year 7, if the first school cannot be offered.
Then put the school that you and she... and so on.
Somewhere on your form, it would be sensible to put the school from which you can be as certain as possible that she will receive an offer, not dependent on things such as entrance exams.
Each of the schools ranks your application, independently, with
no knowledge of wher else you have applied. The individual responses make their way back to your home local authority. Which does know your whole list of schools. And allocates a place at the one which can offer a place, which you ranked above any others that can.
So, put HBS first, get allocated HBS, application to Kendrick, along with any other, lowest-ranked (by you) schools, disappears. You don't get to choose. You also don't get to go on the waiting list for lower ranked schools (without making what is essentially a late application to the school), or have the right to appeal for a place, because you got a higher preference (ditto).
Even if your DD is offered a place at HBS, do you really want to move house? Presumably you wouldn't make the poor child commute 30 miles each way? You must have had a plan when you registered her for the exam?