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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Um...I'm in no way affiliated with SWW but I just don't see why there's SO MUCH animosity towards this school. Hopefully I don't ever see it. I'm sorry but schools do have cultures. With any culture, there are subcultures that do vary but schools do have cultures. My undergrad was a very communal, hippie, heal the world culture and I'm sorry but someone with a technological, business, profit oriented outlook would not be a part of that culture. None of this is rocket science. Just because we don't like the way that it sounds doesn't mean that it's not true.

Also, it's an INTERVIEW. Interviews judge people's ability to fit into a an office's or team's climate or culture. Job interviews aren't about accolades or accomplishments, those are called resumes. I'm sorry that the concept of interviews makes people so uncomfortable for their children, but consider this a dose of the real world. It may not be soft a cuddly like a crib's bumper, but its actually pretty reflective of the real world. Lets just try to deal with it and hope for the best. [/quote]

read the "gems" a pp quoted from the other thread above.  The interviews were not being conducted professionally to such a degree that they turned parents off and those parents sent their kids to Wilson or private schools.  That is not the way the interview process is supposed to work in the real world - it should be an exchange of information, not such an awful experience that parents decide not to send their kids there because of the conduct of the student interviewers.

This was not much ado about nothing.  Sounds like you must have gone to a SLAC.  Care to define the "culture" at Harvard, Yale or Princeton?  Good luck.  Your best shot would be off by miles.  Care to define the culture at UVA?  That, my friend, can be done.  There is a difference, and the fact that you use your college as an example just illustrates your tendency to judge everything through the lense of your own personal experiences - myopic, idiotic, and wrong.

If you are going to complain about a fuss, read about it first to see whether people were making legitimate complaints.  They were, and it seems to have been a game changer for Walls much to their benefit.

You did not "see" because you did not look.  That is known as myopic.[/quote]

Lady, please have a seat. Following this alleged "SLAC" I went on to an ivy league law school. I would talk about the culture there but it's clear that I'm going back and forth with an angry brick wall in denial. Take your discomfort with reality up with your therapist. Lol. Good day.[/quote]

Actually you are going back and forth with a HYP undergrad who majored in anthropology, and learned a lot about (and continues to be interested in) all sorts of cultures - dominant cultures, subcultures, separate cultures, etc. I think an argument for a uniform culture at HYP is ridiculous - Oberlin is a different story.  I then went to a law school which, perhaps like yours, definitely had a culture.  And a white shoe law firm that had only two cultures - corporate and litigation.  And they were very well defined, and being an anthropologist helped me stay on partnership track.

It was more your lecture on interviewing that got to me - as you admit, you have no vested interest here, so you were doing a hit and run not having read the previous thread about the interviews - again, look at the post a couple above here where the gems of the student's comments on the way he interviewed are quoted, and the previous thread where the interviews were so bad they turned parents and students away from the school to Wilson or private school.  [b]That indisputably is NOT what an interview is supposed to do[/b].

Yes, as a law student I had a couple of interviews that made me decide I did not want to go those firms as a summer associate, so it happens in the professional world as well - but there I realized I would not be a good fit from the honest description I was getting about their "firm" culture, not having some teenager judge my child.

Some high schools do have an easily defined culture, some don't. Is Wilson's "Yale or Jail" a culture?  It is a large high school and undoubtedly that is an oversimplification, but it is true as far as it goes.

I was just curious as a potential parent since this student went on and on about the culture and fitting in - if SWW has a culture, to know how people would describe it. And that question has not been answered.

Unlike you, since I do have a child involved in the process, I read all the threads, saw the posts by the arrogant student, heard the comments of the parents from last year, and thought that teenagers deciding whether other teens would "fit in" to a culture that no one described was a little much.  Especially since the "culture" they apparently displayed at the interviews last year came off almost uniformly as unfriendly, hostile, and like the interviewing students were full of themselves.  Again, a teen judging whether another teen is "full of himself" from a ten minute interview makes me uncomfortable period, but as people pointed out neither the students nor the faculty who conducted these interviews last year had adequate skills to be interviewers, and that observation was made at least once by someone in the corporate world who conducts interviews.  So enough.

Don't lecture if you haven't been involved in the conversation.  It is obnoxious and arrogant and undoubtedly that was the culture of your Ivy League law school which seems to have rubbed off on you.[/quote]

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