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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Actually, the student interviewer DOES have an enormous say in the ranking. At least last year it was one student + one teacher and each of their rankings are averaged together. So for the interview portion (which was roughly 98% of the weight of the entire application last year), a hormonal teen who volunteers their time because they need community service credit ends up determining 50% of each potential student's ranking for the interview. The unimpressive teen who interviewed my kid last year was not one I would trust with such a task... but it's what we got.[/quote]

How do you know how the two interviewers' rankings were weighted? My older kid is at SWW and we never knew whether the student interviewer graded them at all.

(Their younger sibling did not get an interview this year.)[/quote]

If this is true, it is truly outrageous.  I can't believe they would let 14/15 year-olds rate other kids.  There is no way that these kids aren't being influenced by who they think is cool/who they would want as their friends.[/quote]

+1000

And what measures do they take to ensure these students do not have some connection to the kids they are interviewing (siblings of friends/friends of siblings)? [/quote]

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