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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents are sh*tting on a parent of an otherwise qualified kid who didn’t get an interview just because the kid climbed Mount Kilimanjaro but no one is saying that this climb makes the kid qualified.

The fact is that the Walls admissions process is not only opaque, subjective, and unfair but absurd.  Two teacher recommendations--graded subjectively by overworked Walls admissions staff--count three times more than GPA.  And a three-question interview (“Pick a number between 1 and 20”) and one paragraph “essay”--the interview graded by a Walls teenager and Walls staff member and the “essay” graded by admission staff--count for six times more than GPA.

No magnet school outside of DC has an admissions process even remotely as dumb as this.

And the results are already in:  Last year, over 30% of Walls 9th graders scored below grade level in math on the PARCC.

Does anyone seriously think that the Walls admissions process is selecting the top students in the application pool?
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Actually, the parent is literally saying that. They literally included it in a letter to Walls as part of a complaint that their deserving kid didn’t get an interview and cited climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro, along with a couple of other things, as evidence that the kid should have been considered. They also cited that the kid is well traveled internationally as proof of his deserving an interview. Other parents here are calling out the way this privileged entitlement is highly problematic, which I agree with, especially in light of the fact that Walls is a free public school. Being rich and paying for your kid to go on expensive trips is not something that a free public school should EVER take into account for admissions. If someone is clueless enough to post that on DCUM, they are rightly called out for it. If they had simply said that they were disappointed for their kid and left it at that, they may have received some sympathy. [/quote]

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