Any Walls boosters / haters these days?

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Anonymous wrote:This whole thread is bizarre, including OPs post. I don't know why a question about a school someone is considering would be juxtaposed by boosters v haters, when for most schools it's a lot of in between. DCUM is a place of extremes and not one I'd go to for actual feedback on a school.

These Walls posts are so predictable. You could play a drinking game off of them. Key phrases include: admissions are a lottery/crapshoot, the school is going downhill, crew team woes, and bonus points for the amazing kid who got into every selective private school but rejected from Walls.

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Meanwhile all these parents are upset their kid didn’t get into Walls. If it’s going downhill and so on, why would you want your kid to go there?

The rub is that Walls is going downhill. I know this because I have a kid who graduated pre-Covid and another who attends now, making me a rare Walls parent. The students being admitted without the exam and standardized test score just aren't as sharp overall as the current crop. The principal just isn't half as effective as the old one. And so on. Pretending that Walls isn't going downhill may make you feel good, but it's not reality.

This is obviously, empirically going to be true.

What can be done?

Start offering the exam again. Easy.

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Anonymous wrote:Looking at college admissions so far this year, walls is doing great! @sww2024decisions

I just saw! Wow! I wonder what’s the percentage of students who get in a college they want and how many get scholarships. We got into SWW this year and we definitely would need the financial help.

I’m confused. Just saw what? Where? Is someone keeping a tally of college admissions decisions or something?

Instagram account w SWW college decisions. It's self reported and only shows where kids are going (i.e., not all acceptances). But the class of 2024 is going to some great schools!

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Anonymous wrote:My younger child is more capable than my older where STEM work goes and would undoubtedly have done well on the Walls entrance exam. Younger scored in 700s on the SAT freshman year for CTY. Older never qualified for CTY. Falling standards are obvious if you have your eyes open. There aren't as many Walls students who can handle the most advanced math taught as there were pre-Covid. From what we hear, kids don't score as high on APs overall or take as many on average. There aren't as many seniors cracking Ivies and top SLACs. There are (minor) discipline issues in classes that we didn't hear about before. Humanities assignments get dumbed down a bit comparatively, because there aren't as many advanced humanities students. If you don't want to believe it, fine, but this is what's happening. Hint: Yale, MIT, Dartmouth, Brown etc. haven't brought back the SAT post Covid for no reason.

This is true for every school post-Covid. I’m a private school teacher. Everything got dumbed down.

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Did your private school ditch most of its entrance requirements during Covid with no plan to reinstate them? Dumbed down is too tame a descriptor for what's shamefully happened in admissions at Walls in the last four years.