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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They don't need much help to do what?  Get into a good college?

I interview a half a dozen to a dozen DCPS and DCPC applicants for my Ivy every January-February as an alum volunteer.

I used to interview several Wilson students each application season, but got burned out a several years ago and asked not to be given anymore Wilson names.  No Wilson student I interviewed got in, 10 or 11 years running (though other interviewers for my Ivy had better luck at Wilson). What caused me to burn out is that around half of the Wilson kids I interviewed would almost certainly have been in the running if they'd had better guidance counselors, much more face-to-face counseling, and tougher academics in DCPS all the way up. Nice, bright, hard-working kids, but generally not getting the help and advice they needed to reach for the stars.

Prefer to interview at Walls and BASIS (just one Feb of experience there), but not by much.[/quote]

So let me get this straight: because Wilson doesn't dedicate sufficient resources to preparing kids for Ivy college interviews (or yours, at least), you've decided to punish the "nice, bright, hard-working" kids by simply refusing to interview from Wilson anymore? Jesus.

I guess it's probably better for the kids, in the long run, not to waste their time with someone who would act so capriciously. [/quote]

Capriciously?  After 10 or 11 years of frustration.  Who wouldn't have quit as a volunteer?[/quote]

The PP didn't "quit as a volunteer"; s/he decided to blackball Wilson kids. Although the kids were "nice, bright, hardworking"--no implication that they were rude or unpleasant or otherwise taxing--the interviewer somehow got "burned out" and decided to simply cut them out. That's capricious. But if you don't like that word, I'll settle for "selfish" or "myopic."[/quote]

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