TIPS for SWW Interview

[Anonymous]

Can anyone affiliated with SWW or a parent provide any tips to help my very shy and introverted child successfully pass the SWW interview process? I think the panel in and of itself is very overwhelming to this shy but highly intelligent kid. So any tips would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

[Anonymous]

I got a tip. SWW just might be the school for you but your child will do very well.

[Anonymous]

Thanks so much. I am very sure that SWW is the perfect choice for my child. He is just so completely shy and introverted. Hopefully he can relax and do well enough for them to see the great kid behind his shy, bashful persona

[Anonymous]

i thought interviews were done/complete at SWW

[Anonymous]

They are ---- I have just become so overwhelmed with fear regarding the comments that I have read on the DCUM about the SWW interview process that I want to start thinking in advance about tips. It sounds like it was a grueling process.

[Anonymous]

You've got a year to figure it out.

[Anonymous]

Hopefully they'll review the process before next year.

It's ridiculous for the school to screen out introverts (as the student correspondent would have us believe they did).

I heard no discussion about evaluating applicants' intellectual curiosity, which would seem to me to be the most important point.

[Anonymous]

And with such a rigorous screening process to find those kids that will "succeed" at Walls, why do they lose so many kids? A selective admissions process such as Walls' must not be working when that many kids are scrambling to find another school midway or at the end of Freshman year. Someone really should look into how many kids they accept, and how many of that cohort actually graduate. Most end up at Wilson, the others to Ellington, McKinley and others.

[Anonymous]

oops, how many graduate from Walls, of course.

[Anonymous]

09:15, I don't know where you got your figures from, but the majority of the entry class graduates from Walls. Transfer students are also pretty common--the current junior class recently gained about 7 new kids, and have still been conducting interviews.
The kids who are accepted, the panel thinks is ready and will succeed at Walls. If they drop out, it's because they couldn't. Sometimes the student is not ready for the workload, or they decide that they'll be happier at a school with a better sports/business program than Walls. Some kids use Walls as a placeholder so that they can apply to say, Ellington the next year.

[Anonymous]

Im friends with two sets of parents whose kids started as Freshman at SWW this year. They were both very turned off by the interview process and said it was ridiculous!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Im friends with two sets of parents whose kids started as Freshman at SWW this year. They were both very turned off by the interview process and said it was ridiculous!

Deal parent here. I have to say I've been very turned off by reports about what sounds like a bizarre interview process!! But how are your friends' kids liking the school?

[Anonymous]

I'll have to ask the next time I see them. One of the parents said everything was going well after the first week. Interested to see how things are going now.

[Anonymous]

Is any of the above information still accurate in 2016?

What are typical interview questions at SWW interviews as of this year/last year?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is any of the above information still accurate in 2016?

What are typical interview questions at SWW interviews as of this year/last year?

They no longer accept students after 10th grade.