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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Walls is better than fine, got lunch with a development officer from Dartmouth who used to be in admissions there and other places, and they love Walls (and it has a great reputation at that kind of school). I feel like we’re arguing about really fine, inconsequential margins here,

The guy didn’t have any real sense of McKinley, and I told him he should. I think McKinley in particular is a great school that is very early in building a brand[/quote]

One tidbit that is overlooked is that Walls, Banneker, and Duke were all established in roughly their current models in the 1970s, and McKinley only opened as a STEM-focused school in 2007. (Prior to that, it was a regular neighborhood high school.)[/quote]

This is only partially true -- it opened in in 1902 as a white-only technical school. Then after desgregation it flipped to mostly black, though they still had technical and challeging math and science classes for a while.

But then enrollment slowly dropped through the end of the 20th century and they shuttered in the late 90s, and were reopened in the early 2000s as a STEM application school.

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NP. How is this different than what you are replying to? [/quote]

(This is about McKinley Tech). The context means that the school has had proper math/science/technical infrastructure and curriculum for longer than it's history as a STEM application school, because even 100 years ago it was "McKinley Tech" and students went there to learn STEM. [/quote]

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