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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is pretty shocking to see the SWW hate here. The school has crappy facilities, [b]the students aren’t coddled[/b], and the school still must contend with DCPS bureaucracy. And lots of their families there can’t afford to go to the schools you drool over, even though their kids get in. If kids can navigate all that and still end up at Cornell or Yale, good for them! Even more impressive are the kids who got full rides or massive amounts of merit aid to highly regarded schools. Walls is a rare DCPS success story. Anyone who pays taxes in the city should celebrate this.[/quote]

That's the major difference and the story doesn't fit the narrative. I really wish SWW did some coddling. It's almost like Lord of the Flies :-) They have been sending kids to top schools for years. So this is nothing new. Colleges know exactly what SWW produces so they must like the product. [/quote]

Let’s see if colleges continue to like the grade-inflated Walls product.  Seven admits to Ivy/Ivy equivalent colleges (out of 150-160 students) isn’t an impressive result—especially for an academic magnet school.[/quote]

There are more.

The Instagram list only has 28 kids posted out of 150. [/quote]

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