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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If walls will no longer require a test it seems they really ought to raise the GPA minimum. Unless they are not actually looking for kids bright studious kids. [/quote]

They essentially have. They interview the top 500 GPAs. The 3.0 minimum comes into play only if they have fewer than 500 applicants. I’ve heard that last year the cut score was 3.7. [/quote]

The bigger issue was once they used the cut-off to get the 500 to interview, the interview counted for "31 out of the 36 points"...these interviews, which were supposed to last all of 10 minutes and, as another poster put it, were conducted by two students and one staff member, lasted only 2-3 minutes for many kids.  It was a truly absurd process and made SWW look pretty terrible (I say this as a parent of a kid who got in but saw many of his very smart friends get put on the wait list after getting one of these sham interviews)....they would have been better served taking the 500 kids and putting them in a lottery.

For those of you who are considering SWW, our kid is there now.  It is nothing special. [/quote]

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