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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Um...I'm in no way affiliated with SWW but I just don't see why there's SO MUCH animosity towards this school. Hopefully I don't ever see it. I'm sorry but schools do have cultures. With any culture, there are subcultures that do vary but schools do have cultures. My undergrad was a very communal, hippie, heal the world culture and I'm sorry but someone with a technological, business, profit oriented outlook would not be a part of that culture. None of this is rocket science. Just because we don't like the way that it sounds doesn't mean that it's not true.

Also, it's an INTERVIEW. Interviews judge people's ability to fit into a an office's or team's climate or culture. Job interviews aren't about accolades or accomplishments, those are called resumes. I'm sorry that the concept of interviews makes people so uncomfortable for their children, but consider this a dose of the real world. It may not be soft a cuddly like a crib's bumper, but its actually pretty reflective of the real world. Lets just try to deal with it and hope for the best. [/quote]

read the "gems" a pp quoted from the other thread above.  The interviews were not being conducted professionally to such a degree that they turned parents off and those parents sent their kids to Wilson or private schools.  That is not the way the interview process is supposed to work in the real world - it should be an exchange of information, not such an awful experience that parents decide not to send their kids there because of the conduct of the student interviewers.

This was not much ado about nothing.  Sounds like you must have gone to a SLAC.  Care to define the "culture" at Harvard, Yale or Princeton?  Good luck.  Your best shot would be off by miles.  Care to define the culture at UVA?  That, my friend, can be done.  There is a difference, and the fact that you use your college as an example just illustrates your tendency to judge everything through the lense of your own personal experiences - myopic, idiotic, and wrong.

If you are going to complain about a fuss, read about it first to see whether people were making legitimate complaints.  They were, and it seems to have been a game changer for Walls much to their benefit.

You did not "see" because you did not look.  That is known as myopic.[/quote]

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