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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Teacher recs count for far more than GPA and they aren't standardized.  one teacher can give everyone 5/5 and the next teacher can give no one 5/5.  They're totally subjective.

GPA is just a tiny bit of what they take into account and it's weighed so that a 3.5 is the same as a 4.0.  There's no benefit to having all As vs having half Bs. [/quote]

Here is this year’s rubric. https://www.myschooldc.org/sites/default/files/dc/sites/myschooldc/page/attachments/SY24-25%20SWW_Admission%20Process%20Rubric_Final.pdf

They have changed the GPA weighting so it’s more nuanced than PP describes (4.0 gets more points than even 3.8 this year), but it’s still true that teacher recommendations count for more than GPA. If a 4.0 kid didn’t get an interview it’s almost certainly because the recommendation scores weren’t high enough relative to other applicants. [/quote]

A few notes:

As I read the rubric, the school establishes a threshold GPA (last year, it was around 3.7) and then invites kids who are over that threshold GPA to interview based entirely on their teacher rec scores. I'm fairly certain they did not send out "you were not selected" emails this year because of how mad/responsive people who received those emails were last year.

The GPA is worth 10 total points in the process. Anything 3.9 or above gets the full 10 points. 3.8-3.89 gets 8 points.

Teacher recs are worth 30 points. Students and teachers have no idea how they are scored or what questions/categories "count" for points.

Some amorphous combination of the interview and writing sample is worth 60 points, for those kids who are selected to interview.

Overall, this rubric is way worse than any I've seen for any academic assignment in my kids' years of school. We hold individual teachers to a higher standard of clarity and transparency than this entire admission process.

(And as an aside, the parent portion of the interview is supposed to have NO WEIGHT in the decision-making.)[/quote]

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