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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]FYI, this is still happening.

To make a long complicated story short, I caught and corrected an incorrect teacher email address over a week before the first interviews, but was told it was too late for the rec to be included. SWW entered an alternate “average score” in its place and admitted that no one who has one true rec and one “average score ever gets an interview.

It’s a mess. The system is broken enough in its best form, we don’t need to put up barriers to making it as fair as possible. And I’m ok if my child doesn’t get an interview based on their two genuine teacher recommendations, but I’m not ok with random numbers being added and a decision being based on those.

So be warned…

1. Only some families are notified of missing recommendations.
2. There is no monitoring of undelivered teacher emails.
3. The MSDC portal allows correction of teacher email address without indicating the portal is closed or that no request will  be sent.
4. The recommendation deadline (apparently Feb 9 this year) is not published or communicated to families (except in the reminder email that only some families received)
5. MSDC and SWW provide conflicting information regarding school discretion to accept a recommendation outside the portal.[/quote]

This is absolutely ridiculous. Please ask for an oversight hearing on SWW. These stories need to be heard. DC can’t be mad when upper middle class and wealthy parents choose private school over DCPS when things like this happen. Absolutely unacceptable.[/quote]

This isn't the only problem though...there is something else going on that is very under the radar, and for years, people have been asking for transparency...but you will never get it. I find it very weird that my kid's friends who didn't get interviews at Walls are the smartest kids they know with 4.0's, the most personable and well mannered...and kids with mediocre GPA's got in. Something isn't adding up.[/quote]
Walls has a minimum GPA to even get an interview-  I think this year was 3.7 or 3.8.  How are kids with mediocre GPAs getting in.  [/quote]

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