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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Only 3 NMSF at walls this year (compared with 6 last year)[/quote]

How do you know this?[/quote]

Walls sent an email out to school with the three names[/quote]

That is really really depressing. This is exactly what I thought would happen when they made it easier to get in. [/quote]

That is not what’s going on here. The reason Walls has fewer NMSFs this year is that the cut score rose.

Here is some historical data:

Class/admissions/cut score/NMSFs:
2026/no exam/[b]225[/b]/3
2025/no exam/223/6
2024/exam/223/5
2023/exam/223/6
2022/exam/[b]224[/b]/0
…
2018/exam/223/2

My high-scoring kid was excluded from Walls immediately after they dropped the exam, and I’m as bitter as anyone about it (why else do you think I was tracking this data?). But if you care about education you should care about facts and reason, and they show that raising the cut score has a much bigger effect on the number of NMSFs at Walls than whether or not Walls admits by exam. [/quote]

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