oversubscription appeal should I include school reports?
Posted: Thu May 19, 2011 12:00 pm
OK appeal has been sent in and been given a date in middle of June. Wandering if i should have sent more evidence of ability! It is an oversubsription appeal, as she passed and is currently n waiting list. Appeal is for SHS.
I have found out it's their highest number of appeals yet, at 31, usually 8 students have been successful for many years.
Only 26 on waiting list, so I can only imagine there are going to be a several non qualification appeals.
I listed all my reasons my daughter needs/wants this school, didn't mention negatives of other schools as we are arguing for this school.
However, should have I sent more than just the CATS scores (official printout)?
My daughter is stanines 8 for science, 9 for maths but 6 for verbal reasoning! She has ability but that gets overshadowed with her desire to only want to practice maths!
So never sent reports as they predicted only 4a in Literacy, not sure if this would do more harm than good. But they do discuss her maths ability. Reports also describe her as a shy, quiet girl, worrier, but very hard worker, and always puts maximum effort in. Should I send them in as an addition or will the Literacy grades and comments damage us.
Hopefully our reasons will be compelling enough. I did mention (but didn't put a lot of emphasis on it) that she is a huge worrier, and that night before the test she was up at 11pm not able to sleep. However, I am not sure how musch better she would have done as the test is only VR, (for a maths and science specialist school???), and this is her weakenss, although practice papers saw her making steady 90s.
Any advice would be really helpful. Should I add more info on ability other than CATs.
Primary school used excuse not allowed to write a lette, so they're not much help.
I have found out it's their highest number of appeals yet, at 31, usually 8 students have been successful for many years.
Only 26 on waiting list, so I can only imagine there are going to be a several non qualification appeals.
I listed all my reasons my daughter needs/wants this school, didn't mention negatives of other schools as we are arguing for this school.
However, should have I sent more than just the CATS scores (official printout)?
My daughter is stanines 8 for science, 9 for maths but 6 for verbal reasoning! She has ability but that gets overshadowed with her desire to only want to practice maths!
So never sent reports as they predicted only 4a in Literacy, not sure if this would do more harm than good. But they do discuss her maths ability. Reports also describe her as a shy, quiet girl, worrier, but very hard worker, and always puts maximum effort in. Should I send them in as an addition or will the Literacy grades and comments damage us.
Hopefully our reasons will be compelling enough. I did mention (but didn't put a lot of emphasis on it) that she is a huge worrier, and that night before the test she was up at 11pm not able to sleep. However, I am not sure how musch better she would have done as the test is only VR, (for a maths and science specialist school???), and this is her weakenss, although practice papers saw her making steady 90s.
Any advice would be really helpful. Should I add more info on ability other than CATs.
Primary school used excuse not allowed to write a lette, so they're not much help.