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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Whoever said this about the SWW interview process nailed it:

“The purpose of this is not to get a meaningful, predictive metric. Obviously. If it were, everyone would get the same questions, there would be training for graders, extremely clear rating rubrics, testing to make sure everyone is on the same page about what should get a good score.”

I still can’t believe that they are having current kids RATE prospective kids in the interview, and it matters for the outcome. And apparently no/little training of those kid interviewers?? If a 10th grade girl thinks most boys are icky, and rates them lower, oh well!!!! Them’s the breaks!!!!!  (oh but all Walls students are geniuses so we should all implicitly trust their judgement)

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It's far worse than that...more likely, the 10th grade girl (who is supposed to help determine "fit" of the interviewee) thinks the interviewee is a little nerdy and therefore a poor fit. Or the 10th grade girl is friends with the interviewee's older sister and- what do you know- the interviewee is a perfect fit for the school![/quote]

Even worse supposedly a lot of very attractive girls have been admitted the last few years….may be a bad idea allowing horny teenage boys to decide who gets admitted.[/quote]

I think the earlier posts about not denigrating the student body are a little silly.  Identifying problems with the current process or saying that it doesn't reliably give the 300 best students interviews, or the best 150 students spots doesn't really "denigrate" anyone.  It doesn't mean any one of the students who does get an offer *isn't* one of the best 150 students -- just that the process doesn't reliably yield a group of all of the best.

But this stuff that keeps going around about the attractiveness of the students does strike me as pretty toxic.  And SO weird honestly.  I wish people would lay off this subject.[/quote]

Yeahhh. "Most of the kids from my child's Deal Algebra 2 class were turned down" seems like a) something someone could know, and b) a relevant fact. But no one is in the position to know that there are more 'very attractive' 14-year-olds being admitted now than there used to be unless they were engaging in a level of study on this topic that hopefully no one is. And the student interview stuff is weird enough without this kind of speculation: I think everyone implicitly understands the pitfalls of having teenagers playing a significant role in admissions. [/quote]

Ugh, I hadn't even processed that these are 14 year olds.  (I know, duh, but in my head high schoolers are TV 16, i.e., 22.). Such a strange and gross line of speculation.  [/quote]

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