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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]Interviews are a really crappy way to determine admissions to a HS program.[/b] So subjective and open to prejudice on many levels. Just do a lottery of the top GPAs, and them adjust for demographics. Done. [/quote]

Wow, yes.  This really sucks. 
My kid has a 4.0 and is a really personable kid but we just went through 4 private school interviews. 
Some were great; some not so much. It was so incredibly random based on who the interviewer was and what they asked and we're exceedingly grateful that the interviews are just one small piece of those applications.  
Some asked questions that really drew out who my kid is; some asked questions that never let him address any of his strengths at all.
If you took these 4 interviewers and asked them to rank my kid 1-10, I bet you would get 3s and 10s simply based on the what was asked and how well the questions matched my kid and his strengths.

It's horrible to basically choose kids based on a 15 minute Zoom interview.   
Like this is really, really bad.

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