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[quote=Anonymous]Walls definitely rejects qualified applicants. They have 150 slots and last year admitted 190 out of the lottery on the first go (and by start of school went 25 or so into their waitlist). So that's about 215 kids who get in from however many that applied. I forget the exact amount the principal said at parent orientation but it was something like 1000 kids applied through the lottery and Walls took the top 500 GPAs for interviews. Bottom line is - if you made it past the cut-off for an interview, you had about a 40% chance of getting in last year. That means 60% of kids with high GPAs did not get in. Every year is different so it's hard to predict but we know plenty of kids who are brilliant and amazing who didn't get into Walls. The admissions process is also changing so it's hard to know how that will affect number of applicants and who gets in. [/quote]
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