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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One of my child’s teachers did not submit a recommendation at all. They were ultimately given until 5 pm on Feb. 22nd to do so (according to an email I received from Walls). The teacher still did not submit a recommendation.

I was subsequently told by Walls that My School DC told the school to take the average score for all applicant recommendations and apply that score to the missing recommendation for each affected child. Any child above the threshold, once the averaged recommendation score was factored in, was offered an interview. From my conversation with the person at Walls, only a few students — out of somewhere on the order of 300 applicants with missing recommendations — were offered an interview.

OP, not sure when your recommendation was ultimately provided by the teacher — or if Walls contacted you to inform you that it was missing as they did with me.  Hope the information I provided can be helpful to you.

Beyond frustrating.  And definitely seems like kids were penalized if they didn’t receive both recommendations. [/quote]

Walls did not contact me. I received the notice that my child was not selected for an interview and only after that asked the teacher if they had submitted the recommendation. They confirmed that they had not.

Walls would not give me a straight answer about how they scored my child's application so I do not know if they used the criteria they applied to your child or not. If they had a clear answer, I don't know why they wouldn't just tell me. I also wonder if the average score for recommendations from all applicants was low and unfairly applied to other students.

Your story makes me even more concerned about the transparency of the process. Why contact some students with missing recommendations and not others? If it is the case that 300+ students had missing recommendations maybe there is a problem with their process. [/quote]

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