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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Tracking here this thread has jumped from:

1. Did you get an interview yes/no?
2. When/Why did the weigh recommendations letter so heavily. Who graded these letter and how?
3. Should they reinstate the entrance exam?
4. They should use PARCC scores or other standardized tests.
5. Students should not be a part of the interview process.
6. What is the most fair and equitable process?

GPA, interview, essay would be my preference for admission. And stop advertising a 3.0 as a minimum when a 3.7 historically has been the minimum for an interview.  [/quote]

In different emails from SWW they told both that 3.0 and 3.7 was the cut-off. How can they not know?

They seem confused by their own standards and can't keep their story straight. The admissions process is a mess, and anything but transparent and fair. [/quote]

There are two different cut offs - 3.0 is the minimum to apply. Once the applications are in, the cut off for who gets an interview is dependent on the top however many students they decide to interview, which in the past, has been a 3.7 or higher, but it is not an exact "cut off". They "don't know" because it depends on the application pool. I am not trying to argue that the admissions process is not a mess, or is transparent and fair, but just that this is one part that is fairly clear and does make some sense.[/quote]

I agree that 3.0 is the minimum to apply. However, I do wonder how they figure out the 3.7 part of it - it can't be based on the number of students that they decide to interview - otherwise everyone meeting that threshold GPA would be interviewed which is clearly not the case.[/quote]

They figure what the cut off is going to be based on the highest gpa's of the applicant pool. So let's say they have decided ahead of time that they will interview 500 students. They will take the top 500 of the pool, which may mean the cut off ends up being 4.0 if there are 500 with a 4.0, so it will vary each year and they can not give an exact cut off beforehand. Last year it ended up being 3.78 or something like that. If you have read the previous 42 pages of this thread, you will see that adding the teacher recommendations this year made this calculation somewhat different than in previous years, but this is why the "cut off" changes or why they can not tell you exactly what that is when you apply. [/quote]

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