SWW Interviews
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Anonymous
| My kid bombed big time. Wish I didn’t have to see that. Also wished grades counted more and interview less; it is a real disadvantage for the awkward shy child. Oh well, |
Anonymous
How can a kid bomb a 15 min interview? Also the interviews are a total waste of time. We asked the teacher a question he seemed annoyed and couldn’t answer. I hope my kid decides SWW is hype. I havent spoken with a student yet who has anything positive to say about the school. It’s always a “meh.” |
Anonymous
| what was a point of these interviews? If I was the teacher(s) tasked with conducting them I'd be annoyed. What a giant waste of time. |
Anonymous
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For our interview, the teacher was full of energy and enthusiasm and the two students were engaged - and this was after hours of doing interviews as it was Saturday afternoon. Our student did fine and I don’t think we did any damage for our part.
But I don’t know how they are going to narrow the field on the basis of these interviews and even if a student is placed in the group that goes on to the next step, it is still a crapshoot. Entrance to the most selective DCPS HS is a complete crapshoot. |
Anonymous
What question did you ask that the teacher couldn’t answer? I asked what the schedule will look like for next year and the teacher was polite but said she really didn’t know. And I didn’t fault her for that! |
Anonymous
Even if grades counted more, so many kids had 4.0s and 3.9s it wouldn’t have mattered much anyway. And hold off judgement on whether your child bombed. You don’t know the rubric for interviews so you don’t know how they did! |
Anonymous
I don't get it. How many times did they ask in their email that students interview alone? You weren't supposed to see it. |
Anonymous
Edited to add, if you were in the room it was probably obvious to the interviewers because of your child's body language. |
Anonymous
Seriously. The school was very clear that the kid should be alone. If you didn't follow that I'm not surprised he bombed it. |
Anonymous
+1 Your kid was probably so nervous trying to do the interview and you listening/watching them! Let them do this on their own and be themselves! |
Anonymous
If they had tracks. Teacher has been at SWW for 7 years could not answer. |
Anonymous
Tracks like tracking cohorts of kids in classes? No they don’t. |
Anonymous
Tracks as in AP/IB etc. My DH asked it. You PP knew more than a teacher there for 7 years. Congratulations! |
Anonymous
| from what I am learning about SWW leadership I think that if my kid gets in she may even pick Wilson because SWW may not actually open in the Fall. It appears to be the most conservative school in NW vis a vis Covid restrictions. They have had zero in person learning spots and apparently have no plans to expand for term 4. They are operating according to panic- science and worst-case-scenario....even as their teachers can get vaccinated. I can't deal with it. |
Anonymous
So basically a school that is known for boatloads of homework and testing and is geared to school smart kids is now being determined by how poised you are in an interview. And by lottery. SO MORONIC. They are setting kids up to fail. They should've done the test this year. WTF. My kid is so school smart and a good tester (which simply means she would get great grades at Walls). But she is shy and really doesn't shine on Zoom. Seems like for a really academic school it shouldnt matter so much how you interview. It's not Laguardia!
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