mumsidcup wrote:
I just wonder if anyone can answer for me the following question:
If my child is offered the place of first choice on the 1st of March, but we change our mind and turn down the offer, then can we still get the place of second choice, third choice and so on? As I understand, once you got the offer, then all other schools with lower preference will be automatically rejected.
The reason I am asking is that we got twin. My DD passed nonsuch with 324 points, my DS passed Wilson and now among 624 boys. We love both schools but we are OOC and it is not certain that if we put these schools as first choices both of them will get the offer. In case only one got offer we will then have to turn it down. In this case, maybe the child will have nowhere to go.
Many thanks
A quick response to your first question - no. Once you are offered a place, all of 'your' places at lower ranked schools cease to exist. You can probably make a new application, but this will be a late application and you will be reliant on a place coming up on the waiting list. Waiting lists have be held in oversubscription criteria order for viewers term, so if your lower ranked school was one on whose list your DC ranked highly, you might be lucky.
Can't your DC travel separately to school?
I know it's difficult with twins, but once you decide to embark on applications for academically selective schools, you really do have to look at them as two separate, individual applicants. The only way you can guarantee to keep them in the same school is to put one for each as first preference on their CAFs that admits on some less personal criterion, such as distance - which would obviously be the same for both of them.