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Bottom line, Walls does not want a school full of kids with highest GPAs/highest scores on an entry exam (that would obviously be the easiest way to draw the line - top xx number of kids calculated through GPA/entry exam score are offered spots/put on waitlist in numerical order).  I think this was more or less how they used to do it - I assume they decided that entry process made the class composition too white/too something (perhaps because not enough applicants from low income schools (which in DC are overwhelmingly black) with 3.9-4.0s/high entry exam scores?) So now they use soft(er) factors in their pursuit of perfect demographics (for my 2027 kid, the interview score was the deciding factor; last year, teacher recs were make or break for getting an interview) and give these factors determinative weight to better engineer the desired class make up.  Using interview/teacher recs as the determinative factor introduces a lot of variability/randomness into the selection process (inevitably interviewers/teachers have different scoring methodologies - no way to even this out across the many schools).

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