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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Which doesn't alter the [b]fact[/b] that [b]many if not most [/b]current Walls students would not have been admitted via the pre-Covid admissions process because they weren't adequately prepared and are insufficiently academic.  [/quote]

WTF dude - talk about lack of evidence for these emphatic statements!  "Fact"??  "Many, if not most"? You have no clue if this is true or not, and no way to possibly measure it.  My kid is a 9th grader there under the new admission standards and scored 99th percentile on 9th grade PSAT and is acing all classes (now, I don't think the classes at Walls have been particularly challenging in 9th grade, but that is another topic for discussion).  I assume kid would have also gotten in under old admission process as well (but of course could never know that for sure).[/quote]

[b]Fact is[/b], for every kid like your at Walls there's a B+ student who sailed in for reasons unknown. The current admissions process doesn't separate the sheep from the goats.  That's why New York City has stuck with the brutal SHSAT high school admissions exam for decades, Boston Latin and Cambridge Rindge and Latin given an equally tough homegrown exam, and many high school magnets around the country go with the PSAT 8/9 in admissions.  [/quote]

Another "fact" that is NOT a fact - the admission cut off last year was approx 3.9.  So the "fact is" there were no B+ students admitted!  I wish posters would be a little more careful with their assertions. (Also - my understanding is that cut off this year was 3.7 - so still no B+ students admitted)[/quote]

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