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[quote=Anonymous]Talk to academically advanced 9th graders (wherever they've landed for HS) who took the Walls entrance exam while in 8th grade at Deal or BASIS.  If you're really interested, find a 9th grader who took trig or calculus in 8th at BASIS.  Ask any of these kids if they found any section of the test remotely challenging.

As it happens, I have nephews whose parents are long divorced with one parent living in DC and the other living in NYC.  Both boys took the Walls test and the SSAT (NYC's magnet HS test) last year,  They gave me a uniform report on the two tests.  The NYC test was "three times harder" than the Walls test.  I trust their judgement, partly because both scored in the 600s on the SAT (for both English and Math) in 7th grade to quality to attend a Johns Hopkins CTY summer camp.  They told me that the Walls test would have challenged them slightly in 7th grade, but by 8th it was a walk in the park.  They were offered spots at Walls and Stuyvesant, and stayed in NYC with mom.

Here's a suggestion.  Go to schooldigger.com and look up Walls, then "students."  See how the % of white students at Walls has risen only slightly in the last 20 years.  Now look into DC demographic info for white and upper middle-class teenagers.  Draw your own conclusions.

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