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Eton offer places in error
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 6:45 am
by patricia
Oh dear...
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Patricia
Re: Eton offer places in error
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 8:30 am
by kenyancowgirl
Ouch! Someone will be for the high jump....sometimes good old fashioned letters really are the way forward - they would have noticed that the physical pile of paper coming out of the printer and the number of stamps they had to buy was a whole lot more than 9....
Re: Eton offer places in error
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 11:31 am
by neveragainmum
They should be made to honour their offers, must be some type of legal bound to do so since it was made in writing. That would be really funny
Re: Eton offer places in error
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 11:42 am
by loobylou
neveragainmum wrote:They should be made to honour their offers, must be some type of legal bound to do so since it was made in writing. That would be really funny
I wonder if anyone will try it!
Re: Eton offer places in error
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 11:52 am
by neveragainmum
Well nothing to lose, since only nine of 400 made it through. I certainly would try if not for anything else but to ruffle their feathers, heads must really be rolling right now, and I imagine many of the type of parents applying to a school like Eton will definitely take it further being further stressed out by all this.
Re: Eton offer places in error
Posted: Wed Jul 15, 2015 2:40 pm
by LoveIsBeautiful
In fact I think it was more than 9 of those contacted that got in. The letter was sent to us, but it was intended for overseas applicants. We also got an offer, but I think sadly some others didn't. So I would guess it went out to a random selection of applicants or something.
We had already spoken to the school and from what they had said we knew we had a place, but when we got the retraction email my heart sank. I'd already told my son, and suddenly it was very confusing. I was confident that all was well, but there's always that fear...
You've got to feel for the person that made that mistake. One click of a button... The tutor worked all weekend through the night to try to contact everyone, and when I spoke to him on Monday (I delayed it as I thought he was probably having a bad enough weekend) he was sounding quite faint. We had a long chat with the admissions tutor who was very reassuring and did a good job of putting it right. Must have been horrendous for those for whom the news was bad though.
But yes, I agree there must be a better way.