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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Trying to gauge interest--would anyone join/support a group seeking require dcps only use [b]objective [/b]and transparent examination process for admission to Banneker and SWW? [/quote]

You seem to know very little about admissions processes. This is not a thing. Even "objective" measures have subjective components. Do you think colleges and elite prep schools take all GPAs at face value in the admissions process? Spoiler alert: they do not. There is a multiplier for every school in the US. Harvard isn't evaluating a kid with a 4.0 from Eastern high the same as one from Exeter. Exeter isn't evaluating a kid with a 4.0 from Sousa MS in DC the same as a kid with a 4.0 from Fieldston MS in NYC. In order to make an "objective" measure work they'd have to adjust DC MS GPAs. Can you just imagine the optics and uproar from the performative DC "equity" crowd when it is discovered that [GASP] BASIS's GPAs are given more weight than schools from poor black neighborhoods!

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+100

Honestly the only objective way is to have a low GPA minimum (3.0) to take a test and then if you score above a certain score on the test (75%?) then you are put in a lottery and its luck of the draw from that group.

Because even when Walls had an admissions test it wasn’t that if you scored above a certain score you got an interview.  They interviewed the top 200 scores on the test no matter what.  So the cutoff could be 70% one year and 60% another year.[/quote]

+1 this would be a fine transparent process as long as the lotto was the end and we get rid of the ridiculous interviews and recommendations currently used. [/quote]

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