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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m now confused — they interview 500 kids, and those kids are either accepted or waitlisted? The lottery doesn’t actually matter for Walls? I thought I understood the lottery after all these years but I guess not for high school![/quote]

Walls scores applicants based on
- Interview: up to 31 points
- GPA: 5 pts for 3.8 or higher, 4 points for 3.5-3.79, 3 pts for 3.2-3.49... 
Here's how Walls calculated GPA for SY 21-22 admissions:  https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ee0f425c4f3ed4b48c52995/t/61aa31022c738b75835366c2/1638543618374/SWW+GPA+Scale+Jan+2021.pdf

Highest score for an applicant is 36 points.
Applicants are ordered by score and (using last year as an example) the first 170 on the list match, rest are waitlisted in order based on score.
As mentioned before, applicants who match at a different school they've ranked higher will drop from the list. 
As mentioned by a prior poster, applicants on waitlist will know how they scored compared to other applicants by where they fall on waitlist.

Unfortunately, whether a student gets matched is based on a 10-minute interview. All interviews scored using the same scoring rubric, but by different interview panels.

Is there anyone on DCUM who has sat on a Walls interview panel and can give some general perspective on the interview scoring rubric? What in general is being assessed during interview and how much does each component count for? Supposedly parent interviews are not scored but do they really not have any impact on the appliant's interview score.

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