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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If I’d known that School Without Walls was going to drop its admissions exam and PARCC score requirements I’d have taken a BASIS or DCI spot 2 years ago rather than going with a DCPS middle school. With Walls admissions now essentially a lottery for any 8th grader with at least a B average we might wind up moving for high school. That’s too much to put on my kid. He knows how high the stakes are. We just can’t afford private school without a lot of financial aid.[/quote]

So wrong….
For Walls you need a B to APPLY, but last year (most likely this year too) they only interviewed the top 500 (based on calculated gpa) kids which means most kids that get an interview don’t have more than 1 B on their transcript. Your GPA and interview give you a composite score and then you are ranked.  The top ~150 get in, the next 100 are waitlisted and the last 250 are not accepted. The randomness of the “lottery” is used for tiebreakers.  Hope this helps.

Mom with 2 kids at Walls and an upcoming middle schooler

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Ok but kids from poorly performing schools are getting straight A’s and you think they are performing as well as kids from better performing schools?  There is no transparency on the interview criteria and who do you think they are going to pick?  Straight A kid from ward 7 or 8 school or a straight A kid from Deal?

The mayor and city has made it clear in the press, etc.. that they want more kids at Walls from under-represented wards and that isn’t going to be ward 3.  That was the reason why they eliminated PARCC scores which was a low bar to begin with.

Bottom line is kids from ward 3 are going to have a lower chance of getting in.  I predict wards 5, 7, and 8 will be the winning ward. The academic strength of the classes will also be lower.[/quote]

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