When will Walls interview notices come out??

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Some folks we know have already heard and gotten invites for interviews; a lot we know have not. What we heard for last year is that the invites go out in waves.

DD has a 4.0 at basis and we havent heard. They can't be going by GPA

My kid is also applying from basis. Do you know if the gpa from basis is somehow weighted? I know various friends that have 4.0 at other schools but haven’t been required to take physics, Chen, bio, etc…

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some folks we know have already heard and gotten invites for interviews; a lot we know have not. What we heard for last year is that the invites go out in waves.

DD has a 4.0 at basis and we havent heard. They can't be going by GPA

My kid is also applying from basis. Do you know if the gpa from basis is somehow weighted? I know various friends that have 4.0 at other schools but haven’t been required to take physics, Chen, bio, etc…

Its not weighted, Basis has no incentive to make their middle schoolers look better to other high schools

[Anonymous]

Well I wasn’t asking if basis weighs their gpa…was asking if walls considers basis GPAs differently.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well I wasn’t asking if basis weighs their gpa…was asking if walls considers basis GPAs differently.

They do not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Well I wasn’t asking if basis weighs their gpa…was asking if walls considers basis GPAs differently.

They do not.

https://enrolldcps.dc.gov/sites/dcpsenrollment/files/page_content/attachments/SWW%20GPA%20Scale_SY%2022-23%20Admissions%20Update%20FINAL.pdf

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some folks we know have already heard and gotten invites for interviews; a lot we know have not. What we heard for last year is that the invites go out in waves.

DD has a 4.0 at basis and we havent heard. They can't be going by GPA

My kid is also applying from basis. Do you know if the gpa from basis is somehow weighted? I know various friends that have 4.0 at other schools but haven’t been required to take physics, Chen, bio, etc…

Its not weighted, Basis has no incentive to make their middle schoolers look better to other high schools

Wait, the conspiracy theory of the day is that BASIS is intentionally keeping GPAs down to stop kids from going to other HS? You people have a lot of free time.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some folks we know have already heard and gotten invites for interviews; a lot we know have not. What we heard for last year is that the invites go out in waves.

DD has a 4.0 at basis and we havent heard. They can't be going by GPA

My kid is also applying from basis. Do you know if the gpa from basis is somehow weighted? I know various friends that have 4.0 at other schools but haven’t been required to take physics, Chen, bio, etc…

Its not weighted, Basis has no incentive to make their middle schoolers look better to other high schools

Wait, the conspiracy theory of the day is that BASIS is intentionally keeping GPAs down to stop kids from going to other HS? You people have a lot of free time.

No, stop being dramatic. My point was, basis does not weight their GPAs - not that they are intentionally keeping GPAs down. Knock it off

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kid also has a 4.0 and haven't heard anything, but we were late to submit our lottery list, so maybe it's by when they were notified, or completely random

Last year it seemed to us they were going alphabetically for interview invitations and they would go a week at a time - providing times for the following week

GL

[Anonymous]

Has anyone with an actual child who has applied this year gotten an invite yet?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone with an actual child who has applied this year gotten an invite yet?

NP here - my student was not heard back at this time.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Has anyone with an actual child who has applied this year gotten an invite yet?

not my kid, but another kid at their school, has an invite

[Anonymous]

Remember to check your spam/junk folders regularly the next few weeks. That’s where we found the interview invite last year.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some folks we know have already heard and gotten invites for interviews; a lot we know have not. What we heard for last year is that the invites go out in waves.

DD has a 4.0 at basis and we havent heard. They can't be going by GPA

My kid is also applying from basis. Do you know if the gpa from basis is somehow weighted? I know various friends that have 4.0 at other schools but haven’t been required to take physics, Chen, bio, etc…

Its not weighted, Basis has no incentive to make their middle schoolers look better to other high schools

Wait, the conspiracy theory of the day is that BASIS is intentionally keeping GPAs down to stop kids from going to other HS? You people have a lot of free time.

No, stop being dramatic. My point was, basis does not weight their GPAs - not that they are intentionally keeping GPAs down. Knock it off

Based on DCUM posts, it seems every kid at BASIS has a 4.0, so GPAs aren't being held down.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some folks we know have already heard and gotten invites for interviews; a lot we know have not. What we heard for last year is that the invites go out in waves.

DD has a 4.0 at basis and we havent heard. They can't be going by GPA

My kid is also applying from basis. Do you know if the gpa from basis is somehow weighted? I know various friends that have 4.0 at other schools but haven’t been required to take physics, Chen, bio, etc…

Its not weighted, Basis has no incentive to make their middle schoolers look better to other high schools

Wait, the conspiracy theory of the day is that BASIS is intentionally keeping GPAs down to stop kids from going to other HS? You people have a lot of free time.

No, stop being dramatic. My point was, basis does not weight their GPAs - not that they are intentionally keeping GPAs down. Knock it off

Based on DCUM posts, it seems every kid at BASIS has a 4.0, so GPAs aren't being held down.

Our kid definitely doesn’t! She may or may not meet the Walls cutoff, depending on where exactly they draw the line.

The system isn’t ideal for kids like her, who would like to switch because Basis is a poor fit. She loves non-science classes but hates science. So she can’t force herself to study for the hated science classes, which brings her GPA down just enough that she might not make the cutoff to switch and escape the science. Either way, she’s at a good school so she’s not doomed if she misses the cutoff. (Doomed to several more years of heavy science, I guess!) She’s just frustrated by the catch-22 situation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Has anyone with an actual child who has applied this year gotten an invite yet?

not my kid, but another kid at their school, has an invite

I don't believe these he said/she saids...I think the kids are all just spreading rumors