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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The way admissions are being handled this year will not ensure a class of 150 high achieving, on grade level students. [/quote]

My kid didn't get a spot either, but please don't rain on a bunch of hard working middle school kids who got an opportunity. [/quote]

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Comments like PP are just gross.  You can be upset your kid didn’t get an interview and think the process is unfair.  Fine.  Claiming that the kids who did get an interview are not high achieving makes you an a**hole.[/quote]

"Below grade level" is not some kind of slur. If SWW didn't want to accept kids who were below grade level, they would reinstate the test score requirement. It is not some kind of personal insult to say that [b]SWW is turning down very high-achieving kids in favor of kids who are not at grade level.[/b] It's actually just a description of their admissions process. [/quote]

Do you know this to be true? While I understand from this thread that some high achieving kids didn’t get invited, I don’t know if it’s fair to say it was because of kids who are performing below grade level (at least at this point or without some sort insider info). That seems like a leap.

FWIW, my kid did get shortlisted for an interview, tests well and is “above grade level” on all the standardized tests. [/quote]

The admissions people don't have even access to test score data as part of the process. How do you think they're perfectly filtering out kids who are below grade level if they can't even see that data? You'd have to think that either kids are totally self selecting out or that teacher recommendations or GPA proxy perfectly for being at grade level. Which we know they don't, unless you think that the middle schools with virtually no kids at grade level also don't have kids with As or teachers who won't write any of their kids good recommendations. We can also see that SWW has kids testing profoundly below grade level. Not a lot, but some. [/quote]

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