Sounds like a lot of people didn't get their first choice this year, a friend of mine put Haslingden down for her daughter, they live near me and their daughter is at Peel Park same as Kelsey was, yet she hasn't got in, she has her second choice of Hollins.....odd.
They are appealing against it as she has family at Haslingden.
Also been told that BRGS have changed their admission policy, previously the child sat the entrance exam and you had to put BRGS down as your first choice before the exam results came out meaning that if the child then failed the exam you had wasted your first choice and other schools don't look too favourably on not being first choice !
Now you get the exam results before the forms have to go back, hence the huge influx of kids trying to get into Hassy high !