katie
well, on https://selectivehighschools.education/faq/ it said:
How does the selection process work?
A centralised selection process is used whereby every applicant must sit the entry examination. While each school fills 85% of its Year 9 enrolment based on a student’s performance in the exam, there are a range of variables that may affect final offers each year. These include:
Variable entry score from year to year depending on the demand for places at the school and the scores achieved by those students who have listed the school as their first preference.
Only a maximum of 4% of students in Year 8 from any one school can be accepted into a selective entry high school. Students currently enrolled in an interstate or overseas school are treated as discrete school cohorts, with an average Year 8 enrolment figure used to determine the number of places available.
Up to 10% of enrolments are filled through the Equity Consideration category.
Up to 5% of the enrolment will be filled through the Principal’s Discretion category.
And I also saw in the information pack for 2023 on page 10:
6.2 Principal’s discretion category
The Principal of each Selective Entry High School has the authority to offer up to 5% of places
under the principal’s discretion category, as long as this does not exceed the Year 8 quota of
students from any single school.
Principals from each Selective Entry High School identify from the examination results those
students who they wish to invite to submit an application under the principal’s discretion category.
These applications, including the due dates for submission, are handled by the individual schools.
An invitation to submit an application for a principal’s discretion category is not an offer of a place
at the school. The principals shortlist and interview students from the applications received, and
make offers directly to students.
If a student accepts an offer at a Selective Entry High School and receives an offer to apply for
principal’s discretion for a higher preference school, the student can retain the initial offer while the
principal’s discretion process is undertaken.
5% of 52 is 2.6, so 2 or 3 people could be able to get in through PD, though i'm pretty sure the PD offers ended on Oct 7 for Mac.Rob.
i guess i have to wait another year...