Had a letter saying no to a sports scholarship. He's in county squad for one of the school's core sports, so to not even get invited to an assessment, the bar must be incredibly high.
No letter or mention of academic scholarship interview either. So I'm assuming that's a no too, seeing as interviews next week.
Not being made of money (But earning too much for AP) and also having a younger daughter to consider - Solihull (Or KES) were only really going to give us a grammar vs indie dilemma if an indie offer came with some kind of scholarship. (Which I guess was always a bit of a long shot)
It's not often our son makes our life easier, but in this case I'll assume he's made a heroic, selfless decision to get a mediocre KES/Solihull exam score
In all seriousness...
It's interesting to note that my son's school had almost identical numbers of KES and Solihull offers last year. But there were more than double the number of scholarships offered from KES than Solihull.
I guess that could be any number of things:
- Generally less scholarships available at Solihull
- Y7 entry competing for scholarships (esp. Music/Sport) with 50/60 kids already attending Solihull prep.
- Maybe the very elite level boys (i.e. Those who would be scholarship candidates) from my son's school concentrated on KES exam, or were simply more likely to take KES exam rather than Solihull? (And by implication, my son isn't in that elite level

)
Bit of a shame. I did really like Solihull. For a sports obsessed boy, who is also reasonably bright, it would have been a great place to go.
But don't want to sound ungrateful.
He has a grammar school place (60-70% chance of Fiveways - with B.V. as a banker back-up)
I know that's a position many people would love to be in.
And for all I know, he may still get a full fee place offered - which is an opportunity we can then probably pass onto someone else.