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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Walls vs TJ: Apples and Oranges

Walls was always diverse, including with the test. Dropping the test has done nothing to increase diversity...just swapped out less qualified white kids.  [/quote]

^^This. Walls has always courted  students of color and understandably so even if they skew more affluent/UMC.  Unlike Banneker Walls has virtually no economically disadvantaged students. The most qualified white students used to have a reasonable shot with the test over other white students.  Now it's a total crapshoot. [/quote]

From what I understand, Walls was majority black before the admission test was instituted.  It's no crapshoot. Top GPAs and interview, plain and simple. You may not like it but it's pretty clear.[/quote]

With grade inflation plus 5 minute interviews, it’s a crap shoot.

(And it’s not top grades, it’s goodish grades.)[/quote]

The interview is the most egregious part of the Walls process. If they don't want to use the test (and I get the issues these tests have vis-a-vis equity), I have no problem with them using GPA as a threshold and then using a lottery to determine who gets in.  But using interviews as heavily as they do with zero transparency, consistency, or accountability?  That is a problem.  Telling a straight A student that they didn't get in after a 3 minute interview but a B+ friend of theirs got in because the students and teachers on the call determined they weren't a good "fit"....yes, it's a life lesson that things aren't fair.  But it's BS and doesn't serve anyone well.[/quote]

Walls should put more effort into the interviews. Because the interview process was such a waste of time at Walls, my kid opted to put Banneker as top choice because it was a much better and real interview. Banneker saw it as time to interview kids but also have kids interview them. The people interviewing seemed engaged. It was such a huge disparity between the schools. Walls came off as the low energy, sad school. (Which I know it isn’t but that’s what it looked like!) I don’t think anyone in my house cared what Walls scored my kid. [/quote]

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