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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How many kids are interviewed, for how many spots?  And are decisions released at the end of March along with the general lottery results?

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They interview the top 500 applicants (determined by GPA; this year the cut off was 3.87).  Last year they offered 170 seats in the lottery (the remaining kids of the 500 interviewed go on the wait list).  They will offer those 170 spots based purely on the kid's score (31 points possible for interview score) obtained in a ten minute interview.  How they make sure all the many ifferent interviewing panels "grade" applicants with the same level of rigor (or lack thereof)- who knows?

Being there today and seeing all the applicants and parents milling around was a reminder - there are a lot of kids that want to go to Walls next year (500 of them at this point!) and no easy way to fairly divide a scarce resource (spots at a highly coveted school).

DCPS probably ought to take the arbitrary factor out and just run a lottery for the top 500 applicants (but then, of course, they couldn't engineer any desired class balance - whether that be gender, race, ward, or whatever).[/quote]

Is Walls increasing its enrollment or is it admitting 170 assuming some will decline and aiming for a traditional freshman class of about 156?[/quote]

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