When will Walls interview notices come out??

[Anonymous]

No notice yet but heard they are starting Feb 24 and running through the first week in March.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No notice yet but heard they are starting Feb 24 and running through the first week in March.

This is a lot slower than in years when they used a pure test score or GPA cutoff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No notice yet but heard they are starting Feb 24 and running through the first week in March.

Don’t interviews start Sat, 2/24? No one has heard yet? They are just going to give a few days notice?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:No notice yet but heard they are starting Feb 24 and running through the first week in March.

Don’t interviews start Sat, 2/24? No one has heard yet? They are just going to give a few days notice?

They said interviews will be on either 2/24 or 3/2 but no idea when they plan on telling people if they’re invited to interview

[Anonymous]

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Yeah, I agree - it seems like they wanted to signal that the recommendations matter for the early part of the process, but I just don't see how that is possible given the GPA threshold criteria. Like, it can't be both. Unless there's a circumstance where they decide that a kid who'd qualify by GPA doesn't make it to interview because of a bad rec. Or vice versa. But... I just don't see it actually happening that way.

It does makes sense to use the recs to help assess/score within the kids who make the GPA cutoff.

Considering grades and letters of rec before interviewing ultimately gives more weight to the interview & essays. If they consider GPA (10 points) and recs (30 points) before interviewing & interview only students with the highest combined scores, the result is likely to be very narrow range. As a result, most of the 40 possible points will not matter in the end because everyone in the interview pool also has those points. For example, if the range for interviewees is 35-40/40 points, 35 of the points are irrelevant for comparing the students, only the last 5 will ultimately matter. So while the highest possible score is nominally 100, in reality it is 65, almost all of which will be determined by the essay & interview.

This analysis depends on the assumption that Walls will interview many extra students, as they have done for the past three years (500). If they only interview the number of students they need to fill the school, as they did back in the exam days (250*), it’s the interview score that becomes almost meaningless. I believe I read on here that they said at an open house that this year they would interview 350.

*Yes, I know they only enroll 150. But not every admitted kid enrolls.

As the author of the quoted analysis, this is a good point. If they interview 350 for 150 slots, almost 43% of interviewees will get in, which isn't a guarantee but it's not a snowballs chance either.

[Anonymous]

Rejection notices (no interview) went out this evening.

[Anonymous]

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