Timing of Interview/Essay High Schools?

[Anonymous]

Have the interview letters gone out for SWW?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Do the application high schools wait until after the MSDC deadline to do interview/essay invites? Any insight on timing welcomed.

No, they don't. Last year the Walls interviews were on two Saturdays, Feb 24 and March 2 (can't remember which). My recollection is that they posted the general interview dates on their public website, but waited until very shortly before the first one to actually inform people that they had an interview. So people had to keep the dates available without knowing if they would have an interview or not, which was a hassle.

Can someone explain to me why applications and interviews happen in Feb. but the kid still has to get a spot at walls via lottery. The whole process is lacking transparency or common sense.walls clearly has the power to override the lottery to get geographic diversity.

The lottery only matters if you get into more than one application school. There is no way to override the lottery. Honestly what are you talking about?

So if you get accepted via gpa, interview etc but don’t get a spot in lottery, walls will still accept you?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do the application high schools wait until after the MSDC deadline to do interview/essay invites? Any insight on timing welcomed.

No, they don't. Last year the Walls interviews were on two Saturdays, Feb 24 and March 2 (can't remember which). My recollection is that they posted the general interview dates on their public website, but waited until very shortly before the first one to actually inform people that they had an interview. So people had to keep the dates available without knowing if they would have an interview or not, which was a hassle.

Can someone explain to me why applications and interviews happen in Feb. but the kid still has to get a spot at walls via lottery. The whole process is lacking transparency or common sense.walls clearly has the power to override the lottery to get geographic diversity.

The lottery only matters if you get into more than one application school. There is no way to override the lottery. Honestly what are you talking about?

So if you get accepted via gpa, interview etc but don’t get a spot in lottery, walls will still accept you?

No, it's not an either/or situation. Walls will choose to either accept you or not (you get ranked in order and the top X number of people get an offer). BUT if you chose another school in the lottery ABOVE Walls then the lottery would put you there if your master number is high enough to match you there (or if you met the criteria if it's another selective school like Banneker). Does that help?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have the interview letters gone out for SWW?

Bump

[Anonymous]

Interview letters for SWW have apparently gone out. One of my daughter's friends was notified yesterday.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interview letters for SWW have apparently gone out. One of my daughter's friends was notified yesterday.

Yes, we got one yesterday as well.

[Anonymous]

For some reason we got the same email 3 times about Walls interviews either being this Saturday or a date in March. Anyone else?

[Anonymous]

They sent out the correct number of interview invitations, but only to 1/3 of their invite list?

[Anonymous]

In another thread, a current family said they were getting duplicate emails about regular school business. Just an email glitch I think. We got three as well.

[Anonymous]

Does anyone have information on how long the Banneker interview takes? Is it an hour? Two hours? TIA!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have information on how long the Banneker interview takes? Is it an hour? Two hours? TIA!

They are very efficient. I estimate that we were in and out within about 30-40 minutes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have information on how long the Banneker interview takes? Is it an hour? Two hours? TIA!

They are very efficient. I estimate that we were in and out within about 30-40 minutes.

Thank you very much.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have information on how long the Banneker interview takes? Is it an hour? Two hours? TIA!

They are very efficient. I estimate that we were in and out within about 30-40 minutes.

Thank you very much.

Good luck to your kid!