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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Can someone please explain the steps to admission in order? Do you in fact have to rank it first of your lottery picks and only if you get picked in the lottery do you test and interview? Thank you so much as it's very confusing.[/quote]

What's confusing -- and OSSE does a poor job of explaining -- is that lottery schools and selective admission schools are done through the same process, and OSSE calls that process "the lottery" even though only some of the schools do admissions by lottery.

In that process, you rank the schools you are interested in, and you are assigned to the highest-ranked school that you get into. Both lottery and selective admissions schools are ranked together. So if you put Wilson higher than Walls on your ranking and get into Wilson in the lottery, you won't even be considered for Walls.

To get into Walls your child has to take an admissions test. If he scores well on it he will be called back for an interview. If he does well on the interview he will be accepted.  As others have noted, the school does not do much to promote itself. You won't be able to do a shadow day or even tour the building until your child has been admitted. The window between when admissions are announced and decisions have to be made is very short, about a month, and they don't always have time to schedule everyone for a shadow day. So you basically have to decide based on the school's reputation.[/quote]

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