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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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. [b]UMC parents select high schools largely on the strength of their college admissions track record.[/b] 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]

Well the private school crew says you are wrong! No one is coasting on anything. Same type of kids are there with the same drive. Plenty of people test well but struggle in college. Saw it first hand at my t10 university. [b]Exec functioning is the most important skill in college. [/b]No one knows how well the SWW kids(as a group) are performing pre/post entrance exam in college. If the school doesn't fit your standards, tons of other options. People make the choice all the time. It want change in the near term so it is what it is....[/quote]

Huh? Students at competitive DMV independent and parochial schools generally take entrance exams as part of the application process.

OK, let's assume the bolded is true. So why did MIT reinstate the SAT/ACT in admissions in 2022, after having dropped a standardized test requirement during the pandemic? And why have most of the Ivies followed MIT's lead in the last year, along with Stanford, Georgetown and Caltech.  These institutions are wasting their time in reinstating SAT scores as an admissions requirement having failed to notice that exec functioning skills are the most important skills in high school and college?

Utter BS, along with the assertation that there are "tons of other options" for high school in the District EotP.  Maybe there are tons if you're wealthy or get lucky in the lotteries for BASIS and the Latins (as long as those programs are a good fit for your children). [/quote]

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