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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They're enrolling fewer top white students.  It used to be next to impossible for B students of any race to crack Walls. Now they can. The admissions process has gone haywire, not just because of an affirmative action tilt. Aside from a basic GPA baseline, the process is almost completely subjective now, which just doesn't bode well for Walls.  The entrance exam and standardized test requirement were useful in vetting applicants. Getting rid of these metrics of preparedness was a feel-good measure that hasn't helped Walls.[/quote]

How many Bs can you get and still have a cumulative 3.7 to 3.75 GPA?  None of the current admitted students are “B students.”  You sound silly…and bitter.

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What happened to your position that Walls is letting in B students?!?  That’s what I thought…crickets.[/quote]

Why ask if you already have the answer?

In the big picture, Walls has started letting in applicants who wouldn't have been in the running before test scores were dropped from the application, and before the interview became a 5-min Zoom affair. Wall is also keeping out applicants who would have been shoo-ins before admissions standards were watered down and process became more discretionary. You can split hairs over A- students vs. B+ students without that adding anything to the conversation, given the wide discrepancies in rigor across the DC public middle schools attracting sizeable UMC cohorts.

What's happening here is that with Trogisch out of the way, Team Bowser and Team Ferebee can reshape Walls as a bastion of equity vs. meritorious achievement built on DCPS support of the most advanced and industrious students lower down the chain. Trogisch's ouster is fueling more demand for BASIS and the Latins EotP, as fewer parents of excellent middle school students look to Walls as their most viable high school option.  If you're staunchly pro-charter, you're cheering, if you're not, and you've had a chance to size up Walls' current head, you're concerned.[/quote]

Over the past two years, Walls has only admitted students who have, at a minimum, a 3.7 GPA.  Prior to that, some “B students” were admitted because Walls required an interview (still required), testing (that could easily be prepped and gamed), and only a 3.0 GPA.  This year, Walls will conduct in person interviews again.

Despite your nonsensical statements, any school that only admits students with a minimum 3.7 GPA is a bastion of “meritorious achievement.”  Unlike the charter school experiments you cite above.  Latin and Basis admit students based on a random lottery.  There is zero merit involved!  We didn’t even consider those schools for my child. Last year my daughter, with a 4.0 GPA, scored in the 95th% on the SSAT, and she was admitted to NCS/GDS/Sidwell and other highly selective independent schools.  She chose Walls over all of them and she is enjoying her experience.

Just say you can’t afford private school and your child didn’t get into Walls and go. Your concern trolling is obvious and pathetic.
[/quote]  Based on what I've observed at Walls, both of the posts above have merit. No need to call others names to make your points.

DCPS didn't do itself any favors in firing Trogisch. But the sky isn't falling over Walls, not yet anyway.

DC just doesn't offer full-fledged high school magnet program like those in MoCo, NYC etc. What this means is that Walls is pretty good vs. super duper. Ad nauseam claims to the contrary are overblown.

Nobody's a troll for pointing out that leadership matters at Walls. How much, that's your call as a family of course.[/quote]

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