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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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.

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

Does anyone seriously think that the Walls admissions process is selecting the top students in the application pool?
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Wondering: Where are you getting this information? PARCC tests algebra or geometry specifically, not "grade level" for 9th graders.[/quote]

PP is correct.

According to DCPS PARCC data for last year, in 9th grade, 147 students at Walls took a PARCC math exam (pretty much the whole class), and 102 received a 4+, 32 received a 3, and 13 received a 1 or 2. That means that 30.62% of Walls 9th graders scored below grade level.[/quote]

That is astounding.  I guess I feel somewhat better about my 4.0 kid with 5s in both PARCC sections not getting into Walls last year (waitlisted with a very high number after a 3 minute interview where they asked one question about a hobby).

FWIW, DC is thriving at J-R and we never looked back.[/quote]

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