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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And last year, lots of kids with 4.0s were not invited to interview. So don’t count on a high gpa as getting you through the first hurdle[/quote]

This.  GPA had [b]very little[/b] to do with who was interviewed. [/quote]

Let’s not be too dramatic - GPA had a lot to do with it, but not everything. Teacher recommendations mattered too. My kid personally knows smart kids who were jerks to teachers who didn’t get in.

[b]We don’t need to rehash all the imperfections of the admissions when demand is greater than supply[/b], but saying GPA didn’t matter much isn’t accurate. [/quote]

Apparently we do need to rehash the imperfections of the admissions when demand is greater than supply, because you obviously haven’t accepted the fundamental lesson of Walls admissions today, which is: because the number of intelligent and otherwise deserving kids outstrips the number of seats available, the fact that a kid is not accepted to Walls doesn’t mean anything at all about that kid. They might be very smart and otherwise very wonderful. Because admissions are highly random. [/quote]

That doesn’t mean admissions is random.  It means there are more very smart and otherwise wonderful kids in the applicant pool than spots available at the school.  There is nothing you can do about that except open another application school.  But when they do that (Bard, Coolidge early HS, etc.) it doesn’t get the same interest level.  [/quote]

Coolidge EC only takes 25 kids. And when you look at the test scores of Bard you'll see why people aren't interested.[/quote]

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