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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All I can say is, thank goodness my kid missed the cutoff. Much easier than all this interview/waitlist stress! [/quote]

Mine made the cutoff easily but had a 3-minute interview.  Waitlisted in the low 200s.  No idea why. She's extremely upset...thinks the interviewer must have "hated her" and that she must have "said something really stupid."

Walls should be ashamed of themselves for doing this to kids.[/quote]

Well, let me then tell you this: my son was asked about his hobbies. Waitlisted 120+ . Now he's upset with himself and doubting about his own hobbies and interests. [/quote]

This year or last year? Similar anecdotes from last year and would be disappointing to see that repeated. At a minimum they need to provide a standard set of questions and a fixed block of time, but there's so much more they should do.  They could follow Banneker's process for starters and require an essay and teacher recs. If they want greater diversity they should prioritize equity seats and make the remaining seats entirely competitive  including reinstating test. Upper class student participation in selection process is also a strange dynamic and doesn't seem appropriate

The process sucks. Lots of highly qualified candidates get overlooked.
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