mdalip wrote:
Hi All,
As we have to put 6 choices for the school on the secondary school application forms, I was wondering if my son does not get the school which is marked as his first two choices so for him to get the third choice school what process do the admission department follows as someone might have put the school which is a third choice for myson as their first choice so i am getting confused here as whether the person who has put the first choice on the form will get the preference or will my son get the preference as he already he would have lost his first two choices of school?
Any guidance would be appreciated.
thanks
The Equal Preference system ensures that any school you apply to is looked at equally. Each school will assess your application against it's admission criteria and decide if they can offer you a place. The Council then looks to see which is the school you ranked highest that can offer you a place. If school 1 can't offer you a place (because it is a grammar school and you didn't quite score highly enough, for example) but school 2 can offer you a place because it is a grammar school that you did score highly enough for, you would get a place at School 2 and so on.... YOU MUST put your CAF applications in your true order of preference - the school you love best in first place, next best in second place etc - do not try and guess what other people are doing - if you put the school you love best (let's call it yellow school) in 3rd place beacuse you think you have a better chance of getting another school - lets call it blue school (and put it in first place), then if blue school says you meet their application criteria then you will NOT get a place at yellow school at all. If you put yellow school first and blue school second, if Yellow school says you do not meet the admissions criteria for it, the council look at blue school as if it was your first choice.