Grade 1 - received waitlist letter today

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Our interview was 20 March and waitlist letters sent out 30 Mar and we got ours today.

Message was the "met admission standards…on waitlist" one, so now at that head-scratching stage trying to figure out chances, how long a wait etc.

The school website explains the stage1/stage 2 ranking process for Grade 1, where stage 1 ranks by results of the interview and previous school reports and references (and I assume previous school reports and references for a 5/6 year old not so much weight, eg his past school doesn't issue reports at that age as a matter of policy). So interview rankings are excellent/good/marginal/not suitable, and I assume the excellent/good/marginal rankings receive waitlist letters.

Then on to stage 2 where the priority rankings are 1) siblings 2) passport 3) debenture.

I guess valuable information at this stage would be what order things go in. ie does the school work through all the excellent first (by sibling/passport/debenture rank), then move on to the "good" ranking (down the sibling/passport/debenture chain again), and then on to marginal ?
- if so, any idea if the school informs (on request) where the child ranks in terms of excellent/good/marginal ? (as if marginal, then we know chances not so good and to move on
- or some other system, eg all siblings ranked good and above first, then on to passport holders ranked good and above, and then on to debenture holders ?

I only assume good and above (vs marginal and above) as the school states marginal only accepted in "extenuating circumstances", which I assume to mean fairly low down in the matrix.

We have a debenture, so not sure where he sits in whatever ranking matrix the school has - quite a puzzle.

thanks
 
A quick update:

No more movement as yet and we still wait. Just for information on process (for anyone else who is going through this or considering it), the school was pretty helpful when asked and did confirm his interview ranking as being ok (not exceptional or mediocre).

Then it went as follows:

- 100 kids in the previous year, and 105 places available next year. So, assuming all renew from previous year, then there are 5 places available
- but some don't renew, typically 5% or so, and leave the school for whatever reason, so maybe about 10 places total once the leavers are confirmed (but if more/less leave, then more/less places of course
- the process of the school finding out who will be leaving before next term takes time of course, and timign couldn't be assured beyond that it would be some time later this year once more information on the numbers was known

Numerically there were 49 kids on the waiting list for these 5+ places. So thats the odds. No exact idea how the debenture comes into it, but I assume the 49 are ranked according to the criteria specified on the website of 1) siblings 2) passport) 3) debenture, but still not sure how the kids who might have been ranked exceptional in their interview would be placed in relation to those three categories (again assuming most of the 49 are the mainstream "good' ranked in the interview - lots of assumptions...).

I didn't ask if 5 offers had gone out already in respect of the new places, so thats a possibility too.



So, in summary, still waiting with crossed fingers.....
 
Zippy, its corporate, but I don't know if thats a different type of debenture if its purchased by a corporation vs an individual (I would assume not?). By the way, we received a verbal offer of a place on Tuesday, which we verbally accepted, then the process seems to be that the school then sends a written offer which we are waiting to arrive right now. Happy endings.
 
Congratulations! my son is still wait listed for 'Prep' grade, however there are 160 on the list. I will likely have to try again next year for grade 1.
 
Hello,
May I ask how or where did you purchase your debenture? was it through the school? my son is waitlisted and i would like to buy a debenture if this might help with priority.
thanks, look forward to hearing from you.
 
Zippy99 said:
Hello,
May I ask how or where did you purchase your debenture? was it through the school? my son is waitlisted and i would like to buy a debenture if this might help with priority.
thanks, look forward to hearing from you.
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I don't know where my company bought it or when. All I know is that they had the debenture (presumably it was used for the child of a previous employee, don't know), and I was just lucky that the debenture was sitting there "unused" when I arrived in HK. Then the company had to inform the school that it wished to use the debenture it had to support our child's application process, and thats all I know about the process I'm afraid.
 
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