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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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They required interviews even when they had the test. [/quote]

While that is true, during the testing era the interview determined the order of the waitlist and they always went deep into the waitlist and often cleared it. Now they interview and waitlist far more students, so the interview score determines who gets in. The existence of an interview didn’t change. But the interview score went from being of relatively little importance to being of almost total importance. [/quote]

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