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Just heard of a Birmingham MA turning down her place in favour of a year 7 vocational place! I'm crossing everything and I'm on tenterhooks all over againfor my little student on the SWL but if anyone has already heard from them in the past 2 days and wants to put me out of my misery it would be much appreciated

We are SWL at birmingham and haven't heard anything. Has your pupil heard now?

Brilliant news.Well done. ????We got a no...can I ask what year your DC is DD. My DD doesn't know yet.

Sorry to hear it was a no. My daughter is year 6 going for a year 7 place

Just had an email and by dd got a yes

Still nothing here

My DC enjoyed the audition and the seeing the school. She was told results should be out this week, but with no idea of how many they will be taking its another case of wait and see. 

Has anyone heard of any movement of the Birmingham RBS Mids short waiting list please?  I assume there is a lot of waiting for funding before giving up places

Thank you 

Short waiting list place for Birmingham for my daughter X

Yes they did balletmum20

My eyes are hurting from looking at the screen too long....refresh...refresh. Not long till everyone finishes for a long weekend!!

I only know one girl offered Elmhurst and she had no other offer and will accept X

Pointyourtoes please can I ask what year for?

Back to another day of checking the forum and refreshing emails!

Huge well done to the yeses, keep going to the no's. Good luck to those still waiting ????????

Still nothing for Birmingham Mids, the only yeses seem to be from WL finalists I am not holding my breath

Do we know which day to expect mid associate emails/letters? I know they are due out this week!

We have been informed that it will be April this year when the mid and senior associates results are released.

 

Good luck to everyone waiting! X

At the audition we were told before Easter so should be in the next two weeks hopefully

Good luck to those waiting, I think I may have checked in as many times as when we were waiting for the first emails!! 

Well done bluebird22 I look forward to finding out who the JA is at our next lesson. So lovely to hear a home teacher being proud of their pupils.

Dizzymum and discomonkfish what a horrible extra wait for you fingers crossed for news tomorrow or maybe you could email and ask X

Before we consider getting back on the horse and trying again please can someone with more experience, there seem to be lots of helpful members, tell me honestly do you know of anyone with a hearing aid at vocational school? I have searched but nothing comes up

Its a no for my DD from Birmingham audition

In defense of the 'email dragon' - I can say from personal experience that it takes a very long time to send out these emails. I know too well how frustrating it is for you all to be waiting, and to think "well so and so has received an email, why haven't I?" but even with the delightful 'copy and paste' capacity these days, individual details all need to be written into emails, such as names of parents and children, as well as email addresses. You can't simply send the same message to hundreds of people all at once so every single one has to be typed individually, any documentation needs attaching and this takes a lot longer than we think. I actually think for the people doing this job, email has made it harder. In the days of posting letters, you could work off a document, change the name, press print, change the name again, press print, etc etc and then someone else would do the addressing of envelopes, folding the letters, adding in forms etc putting on the postage and then they'd all go out at the same time. The chances are that now, it is one or two people having to send individual emails out to the hundreds of applicants. Not to mention also dealing with summer school at the same time.

 

I know it's hard, but be patient, yours will arrive, and if you can, do spare a thought for the person who has to do this job!

 

And of course, I wish that all of your DC's best of luck - but remember that the outcome you want now may not be the best outcome for you long term. Everything happens for a reason and a 'No' from a school is certainly not a 'you're not good enough' - anyone who wants this enough will do everything in their power to make it happen, and being at a vocational school does not guarantee success, nor does not being a vocational school mean no success!

No complaint from me, I can't believe they can manage both audition letters and summer school at the same time.  The problem with copy and paste is that it leaves a lot of room for human error. I would rather they took the time to check and double check. Its hard waiting but would be heartbreaking to receive a yes then oh no sorry that wasn't meant for you.  Keep going email dragon nearly done now. 

Summer school results are starting to trickle in/out. The email sending dragon must have woken!

Wakey Wakey email dragon!!! 

So just Birmingham to go...I feel sick... I don't think it will be a yes but I would just like to know. Power cuts and the wifi dropping out are not helping the nerves. So will it be today or will we have to wait till the morning?  

To anyone reading this thread in future years go the first audition wherever it is the waiting is horrible!!

I wonder if they tend to take older ones for SS then - to assess them for WL?

 

 

I was told at the weekend a friend was told by her RB JA teacher that you cant just audition for MAs, you have to audition for WL & MAs or just WL - can someone confirm if this is true?  Her daughter doesnt want to go away to school, but would love to try for MAs but isnt sure what to do now.

You can tick either MA or WL or both. Same audition just a tick on a form. 

Are you both waiting on Manchester results?

I am waiting for Birmingham but I am also waiting for the influx or "the results are out" to give me a clue of timings

I have just had a quick look at the summer school thread and their emails are due out today.  I cant imagine both audition and summer schools emails would come out on the same day.  There may be no news till tomorrow