Daogroupie wrote:
The council will allocate you the highest school on your preference list that allocates you an offer.
So if you get an offer from your first ranked school then the council will turn down all other offers as you have been allocated your highest preference.
So it is not possible to go on the waiting list for your second ranked school if you are holding an offer from your first ranked school because any offer for your second ranked school has already been turned down om your behalf.
DG
Is that specific to your LA? It isn't the case everywhere. Reapplying for a place at a school originally ranked lower on the CAF would be allowed pre-term start, as a 'change of preference', in a lot of places, although in Bromley, I think, it used to be the case that a new application would only be accepted as a mid-year application. On the whole, there isn't a deliberate process to encourage parents to leave their DC with no school place at all.
OP,
please don't turn down
any place you are allocated on March 1st without first speaking to the Admissions Team at the LA concerning your options.