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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unpopular opinion: the new Walls application process benefits a school like ITS, where it isn't too difficult to get very good grades and the teachers have an interest in writing glowing recommendations (because the school likes the taut the walls admission rate at open houses).

Wonder how if it would change it Walls went back to test-in.[/quote]

It would be interesting to look at Walls admission before and after the change wrt ITDS.  I actually think I remember that more kids got in from ITDS before.  I'm a long term parent at the school (8 years and counting) so I've kept track.[/quote]

As much as I enjoy thinking about questions like that, I think the number of kids at ITDS who have a realistic shot at Walls is so small (and, before COVID, was even smaller due to the 8th grade enrollment being so small) that the data isn't actually that meaningful.[/quote]

This is definitely a good point. But in case we want to throw in some estimates of those small numbers, ITDS has had ~8 kids go to Walls every year for the past three or four years. In this year's 8th grade class, however, only about 5 kids got interviews. (Results are TBD, obviously.) So yes, it's very small numbers and one year does not make a trend, but "unpopular opinion" does not seem to be correct at least so far.[/quote]

Was there are test 4 years ago?

I do remember asking in 2019, and the answer was either 0 or 1 student had gone to Walls the previous year. [/quote]

Yeah, the numbers going to SWW have gone up a lot since the ITDS 8th grade doubled in size with the class that graduated in 2021.

I also would reiterate PP's point about small numbers and not reading too much into the data.[/quote]

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