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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why should we believe you? [/quote]

It's fine with me if you don't believe me. I just know that my SWW senior got into their top choice ED, as did most (but definitely not all) of their friends. I've been impressed with the results I'm hearing about, and so happy for these kids! Other adults may be underwhelmed, but it is demonstrably the case that kids are still getting into highly selective schools.

Feel free to watch the SWW instagram "decisions" account if you're curious. Not every kid chooses to report their results, so it will be incomplete--and is probably not worth looking at till spring to get a sense of the overall class results, anyway.

At any rate, college acceptances are[b] just a small part of the school's appeal to families[/b] (or lack thereof.) I mentioned I agreed with every single one of the other critiques, but not the one about college results for the class of 2025. The kids are doing really well so far.[/quote]

Nonsense. UMC parents select high schools largely on the strength of their college admissions track record. There simply isn't any way that Walls can coast on the academic strength of pre-pandemic cohorts indefinitely.  Eliminating the entrance exam and standardized test requirement in admissions four years ago was a mistake on the part of DCPS and Bowser. Just how grave a mistake remains to be seen. That's all there is to it.[/quote]

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