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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Does ineligible post-interview basically mean that the student did really poorly on either the in-person essay or interview?

Or are there other factors in play?

I am fine with intangibles and interviewing.

If we didn't do it this way, we should just take a slice of top % grads from every school or return to testing. The top grads version would skew toward undereducated entrants and the test-in would skew toward privilege.

As it is, the process doesn't lend itself to understanding post-hoc but that isn't enough to make the alternatives I just thought of better, in my mind.[/quote]

I think both those alternatives are far better.

Basing admissions on test results is easy and clear. It would also be trivial to provide free test prep materials at DC middles. What we have seen from the re-adoption of the SAT trend is that this may be the fairest way for talented at-risk kids.

I’m also intrigued by the idea of admitting the top grads from each middle. They would need to devise a way to take rigor into account when deciding the top grads — you never want to incentivize taking easy classes — but it could be [b]a great way to incentivize affluent families to stay in their neighborhood school.[/b] [/quote]

Agree but that would also defeat the purpose of giving the kids who aren't affluent at these schools if a handful of better off kids who would normally leave stay to grab the Walls spots. All irrelevant really but...[/quote]

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