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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I'm the poster with the private school kid and I did not write the post (about bleeding top students) that you're responding to.  That was someone else entirely.
That said, you sound angry. 
Two years ago (2021), many of the top 4.0 Deal kids in the top math class were not admitted.  My kid had several friends--literally taking math 4 grades levels down---with Bs-- who were admitted. 
And yes, certainly no-one "deserves" an admission at Walls outright but the process made no sense at all.  They interviewed kids for TWO minutes.  On several interviews, the interview was only done by high schoolers. The faculty member was MIA.  My kid had a friend who was called the wrong name throughout 
the two minutes.  Another was identified by the wrong gender (and no, this kid had not changed genders). 
It was a hot mess.  If this two minute charade was DCPS' secret way of identifying candidates with "charm and charisma" then maybe private schools and employers should start this.  Instead of the 90 minutes that GDS spends per candidate, they could spend the DCPS 120 seconds!  Instead of multiple hour-long panel interviews, perhaps Google could start
utilizing the DCPS "120 seconds" process!!  I'm sure all involved would be happy to save all those manpower hours.  :roll:  :lol: 
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Why would I be angry?  My daughter is a freshman at Walls, and she also graduated with a cumulative 4.0 middle school gpa (in addition to a slew of academic and non academic awards and honors).  She’s thriving and loving her experience at Walls so far.

That said, there are three sides to every story.  Neither you nor I have any way of knowing exactly what happened in each interview.  You only know what you were told.  In any case, I hope that your son is as happy at his high school as my daughter is at hers.[/quote]

You sound angry because you're making fun of kids (KIDS!) as not having "charm and charisma" when you know that many were only interviewed for 2 minutes.  
An adult who is in a good head space does not spend the time to type out a post to trash anonymous kids on a message board. [/quote]

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