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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCI boosters need to calm down. We are all truly glad for you that your gamble on an immersion feeder paid off and you have a good option. That's great for the whole city. However that doesn't mean that DCI is the greatest school in the city and the world.[/quote]

There is not a single post on this entire thread where anyone from DCI even remotely suggests that.  There's one poster whose biggest beef appears to be the alleged decline with Walls' SAT scores, but who gives a shit about that.

Our kid is at DCI and applied to Walls.  We're not idiots and we recognize that by any objective measure Walls is the best public school in the city.  Our kid didn't even get an interview despite having strong numbers and (we think) references.  We were disappointed but not surprised, and we've moved on.  We're grateful we have DCI.  We consider it to be on par with JR and would have happily sent our kid there if we were in zone.  Most kids don't need "the best."  Good is good enough. [/quote]

By any objective measure walls is definitely not the best public school in the city. It used to be. But now they don’t even use objective criteria like the CAPE for admission. You’re better off gaming the system at a mediocre dcps, taking the easiest courses to get an interview. And the courses offered are mediocre. Just a few AP classes, nothing exceptional at all. You’re better off trying for a good charter like basis or dci or even Latin to stand out. Honestly we should all move to Maryland.  [/quote]

I mean... by any objective measure Walls is the best public school in the city. Here is the post that people are claiming doesn't exist. The one saying you should send your kid to DCI over Walls. It exists. It's silly.[/quote]

I wouldn’t send my kid to walls because they just don’t have the sports and courses my kid wants.  There is nothing silly about it. If you want to go to the best school- Maryland?  Private?

Mediocre course offerings, extra curricular activities, and too many weak students coming unprepared from bad middle schools.  I don’t know why you insist it’s the best. Maybe for your kid?[/quote]

Yea, well, they're kicking every other school's a$$ on college admissions, including DCI, so they must be doing something right.[/quote]

[b]What Walls “does right” is aggregate kids who would do well anywhere, and exclude kids who would struggle anywhere.[/b] It’s not clear that Walls itself adds any value over a school like DCI or JR (though obviously some kids like it, which is nice for them).

When Walls passes over a high performing kid, which they do fairly often these days, it’s Walls’s loss. The kid’s test scores and potential remain sky-high. [/quote]

You can say this about every single selective school, public or private, in the country.

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