IME, the house preference question (at DS2's current / DS1's former grammar school, anyway) pertains to e.g. family connections. DS1 was the first in either of our families to attend, so we just went where we were put, so to speak, but come DS2"s time (after DS1had moved to a different school for 6th form), we had a little collection of house-specific second hand uniform, which I was too mean to get rid of unnecessarily, so we requested the same house for DS2.
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