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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am confused by this post. The percent of admits after the interview process has always been very high at Walls. [b] Pre-pandemic they would interview 250 students for 150 spots.  It has always been this way. Some years they’ve gone through almost the entire post interview waitlist.[/b][/quote]

Right but post pandemic (the "no test" era) they started interviewing more kids and leaving more on the waitlist.

2021: about 150 interviewed kids were left on the waitlist (I don't know the exact number)
2022: 142 interviewed kids were left on the waitlist
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Yikes!  So the parents of those 142 had to tell their kids they didn’t get in because they blew the interview…?  Joking - but wondering how to finesse my 4.0  (well rounded, athlete, fabulous artist , blah blah) daughter if she doesn’t get in ….[/quote]

I had a 4.0, top travel athlete, algebra 2 in 8th grade, national level debater, etc kid who did not get in.  was accepted to Sidwell, Potomac, GDS, STA, and Teg scholars's program at SJC but not Walls.   🤣🤪[/quote]  Your kid is white?  Asian?  I dearly wish that a dozen parents like you would band together to sue DCPS.  Maybe a group will after the SC ruling challenging affirmative action admissions in 2023.  The Wall's admissions system is a travesty screaming for transparency and change. [/quote]

He had one of those 2 minute interviews in 2021.  The privates interviewed him for between 30 and 90 minutes and then all admitted him.  
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DCPS just bleeds the top students in the name of equity to the private’s advantage.

This is what race to the bottom looks folks and academics follow of course.[/quote]

You sound like a professional victim.  If the gpa cutoff for the Walls interview last year was a 3.73, how in the world are you insinuating that Walls is bleeding “top students in the name of equity”?!?

Perhaps your 4.0 student has zero charm and charisma (but a lot of entitlement, like you). It sounds as if Walls is looking for top students who ALSO have some people skills.

Enjoy paying private school tuition.  If your child does well, he’ll end up at the same college as top Walls graduates.[/quote]

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