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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder if the student body at Wilson (esp. 9th) is rougher than normal.  None of my kid's friend group of 15+ kids at Deal went on the Wilson.  They're at Walls, Duke Ellington, Banneker, about 5 different privates and 4 Catholics.  They were all quiet, studious kids at Deal. 
Almost all had older siblings who attended Wilson. The parents got scared off by Covid and many are scraping their dimes together to afford private or Catholic tuition.  [/quote]

Whew, I’m impressed that you were able to fit so many dog whistles into one post. [/quote]

I like you, PP. 👏👏👏👏
-signed an actual Wilson parent whose sophomore is doing fine[/quote]

+1000
-signed an actual Wilson parent with two kids at the school, one of whom is a freshman and is there with many, many of her studious friends from Deal[/quote]

I don't know many.  Most of the studious kids went to Walls this year.  [/quote]

Not even close to being true...check out the threads on Walls.  They didn't take many of the highest achievers from Deal this year...[/quote]

+1
Nope, nope, nope.  Walls admissions was a joke this year.  I know several kids from Deal that were tippy top students with perfect grades but they got waitlisted (while others with much lower grades got in.) They weighted the interviews 31 points vs 5 points for grades.  And many kids got 3 minute interviews. It was basically a lottery.[/quote]

My kid was in the Walls lottery. 
I agree that a few very top kids did not get Walls spots but most of them got in.  Many of the the kids with lower grades who got in did not take the spots.  
My kid was in group o 25 kids in  Algebra 2 class and almost all of her/his classmates who wanted to go to Walls eventually got Walls spots.  These kids were high achievers in math and were also super involved in debate, the literary journal, student leadership team, etc (and also had straight As).  I'd estimate that 90% of the "super high achievers" at Deal this year eventually got Walls spots.  About 10%, maybe 15% did not (which I agree was not fair and a major bummer as some of the very top kids were in this group).  A few of the very high achievers went on to private high schools (Sidwell, GDS, STA, NCS). 
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