saffronLondon wrote:
Hi
Our local authority gives school allocation on 2 March. Habs and St Albans school need acceptance by 3 March. If one delays acceptance of private schools til 3 March, are they likely to withdraw offers?
I ask because I've heard that private schools over offer and if you delay, you risk losing out!
Any advice welcome.
What does your offer letter / pack from the school concerned actually say? Yes, private schools over offer, but this is because they know that a (possibly quite large, if in London) proportion of those offered places will also have offers from one or more rival establishments. But I think that even the schools which did / do employ 'exploding offers' make this clear somewhere on what they have sent to parents? If the school says, Respond by March 3rd', with no caveat that even before this date, it can choose to rescind offers, then the place should still be available.
You have got another four weeks to think about it, though, plenty of time to formulate plans for the range of possible outcomes vis à vis your potential state offer? Is there a lot of doubt as to how realistic your first state preference is?