Outcome of Applications

• Outcome Letters
• Response to Offers
• Authority to Attend
• Withdrawal of Offers
• Holiday Arrangements
• Reports for Schools
• Assessment Scores and other results

You will be notified in November 2008 you whether your child:

1. is being offered a place and/or
2. has been placed on a reserve list and/or
3. has been unsuccessful for one or more choices.

If students qualify for placement in an opportunity class at more than one school, they will be offered a place only at the school of highest choice for which they qualify.

Some students may qualify for one school and be placed on the reserve list for one (or more) school(s) of higher choice.

Where the student is unsuccessful for all choices the letter will summarise the outcome without listing the schools.

Note that while offers can be accepted, enrolments will not be finalised until after the official 'Application to Enrol' form has been processed.

Hold
In some cases students might not be sent an outcome letter at the same time as the rest of the candidates. These students' applications could be placed on 'hold' while the selection committee carries out further enquiries.

If you receive an offer you must fill out the response form and return it by the date shown on the response form (generally 10 to 14 days after the date of the offer). Some late offers may be made by telephone towards the end of the placement process and these generally require responses within 24 hours. It may be assumed that the offer has been declined if you do not respond by the due date.

Acknowledgement of Response

Whether you accept or decline an offer, you will be sent a letter of confirmation. You should contact the Unit if you do not receive your confirmation letter.

If you accept an offer and later change your mind, you should let the Unit know immediately so that the next eligible applicant can be offered the place.

If you accept an offer of opportunity class placement, you will also be sent an 'Authority to Attend' by the last week in January 2009. The student must present this advice to the school on the first day of Term 1, 2009.

To finalise enrolment at an opportunity class you must have:

1. received authorisation from the Selective High School and Opportunity Class Placement Unit;

2. satisfied all NSW Department of Education and Training enrolment requirements.

All successful applicants will be required to show original documentation such as birth certificates and relevant visas as proof of residency status before enrolment can be finalised by the school.

Offers will be withdrawn if it is found that students do not satisfy all the requirements such as residency status, or if students do not enrol at the school at the beginning of the school year without providing a satisfactory explanation.

Offers or enrolments will be terminated if placement is made on the basis of false or misleading information.

Any deferment must be negotiated before enrolment with the Unit or with the principal of the school with opportunity classes. You cannot defer enrolment beyond  2 March 2009.

Offers will lapse if the Unit, after several attempts, either in writing or by phone, is unable to contact the applicant to make the offer or determine the response.

If you will be away on holidays when offers are being made you should notify the Unit of a contact address, telephone number and the length of time you will be away, or have your mail redirected to you. If you will be on holidays in late December 2008 or January 2009 when phone offers are made you should provide the Unit with your holiday contact number or advise the Unit in writing that you accept in advance should an offer be made while you are away.

In some circumstances the Unit may contact the special contact person listed on the application form. If your child is on a reserve list you may accept in advance any offer that be made while you are on holidays.

The Unit will send reports to government primary schools listing the outcome for each of their candidates. Non-government school principals may be provided with reports on request for all students whose application forms provide school assessment scores.

Candidates will be advised in their outcome letter advice, of the mark out of 300 they achieved in the opportunity class selection process, provided that they sat the Opportunity Class Placement Test and/or had moderated school assessment scores.

Further information on the processing of scores is available from the  Opportunity class placement profile score web page.

If you would like further details of your child's scores you should complete a request for scores form. (pdf 51kb)