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[quote=Anonymous]My child interviewed last Saturday and I was not impressed with the process, to say the least. We were called to the interview room 15 minutes ahead of our scheduled time. The whole tone of the interview was unnecessarily adversarial -- from the firing squad panel set up (seven interviewers in a row, behind desks, interviewee in a chair, exposed, facing them), to the deadpan expressions on all seven interviewers (no smiles, at all), to the questions that presumed a deficit on the part of the candidate ("How will your child respond when she comes here and gets her first F?").  These are children, for goodness' sake!  What can you possibly learn by employing these ridiculous high-pressure interview techniques?

The whole admissions process appears to be riddled with basic administrative errors. To name just a few: the admissions letter refers to a parent contract that is supposed to be enclosed with the letter, but is not; the registration lines at the test were mislabled, so some students, including my daughter, had to wait in line for over an hour to get in; the first page of the packet handed out at the open house had 2-3 glaring grammatical errors.  Combined with the school's the complete lack of concern about marketing itself to students (just ONE open house, off campus, the Tuesday before winter break starts?  Really?? And you have to ask for a shadow day after you get in, you are not offered one as a matter of course), and I am hard pressed to come up with a reason to send my child to this school.

I'm guessing that parents are eager to send their children to Walls because the education is good and the students are bright and motivated -- but my daughter and I have had very little opportunity to learn anything about that education first hand. What we have be able to learn about first hand is the arrogance, ineptitude, and lack of professionalism displayed by Walls staff and students during the admissions process.[/quote]

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