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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am confused by this post. The percent of admits after the interview process has always been very high at Walls. [b] Pre-pandemic they would interview 250 students for 150 spots.  It has always been this way. Some years they’ve gone through almost the entire post interview waitlist.[/b][/quote]

Right but post pandemic (the "no test" era) they started interviewing more kids and leaving more on the waitlist.

2021: about 150 interviewed kids were left on the waitlist (I don't know the exact number)
2022: 142 interviewed kids were left on the waitlist
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Yikes!  So the parents of those 142 had to tell their kids they didn’t get in because they blew the interview…?  Joking - but wondering how to finesse my 4.0  (well rounded, athlete, fabulous artist , blah blah) daughter if she doesn’t get in ….[/quote]

The way you finesse it with your kid is to tell her that once she clears the bar to be in the interview pool, everything else is basically random. There is no way to “excel” through the interview and guarantee admission because the interview process is too subjective and variable. So you tell your kid that it’s basically a lottery after the gpa cutoff - you encourage her to do her best in the interview but to know that the outcome is not a reflection of her. (Whether she gets in or not!)[/quote]

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