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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]At least two years ago looks played into who was chosen.  My daughter has two friends who are objectively gorgeous--they were selected although they were in low math classes and had multiple Bs.  neither took the spots as they had no real interest in Walls.  But the interviewers definitely voted for them. [/quote]

Previous poster again. I should elaborate and say that I know because my daughter and friends were talking about this. of their friend group (8?) the quiet, plain, studious ones were not taken.  The beautiful, glam, charismatic ones were,  I remember because we had a conversation about it--they were laughing about it. 
It's how the world works but kind of crappy for high school admissions but not surprising when 90% of admissions was based on a 2 minute interview by a teenager.  a kid is going to consciously or unconsciously go with the visually appealing option. [/quote]

This is not the first time you’ve posted about this.  You don’t know that there interviews were based on looks.  Also there are lots of quiet nonglam kids at Walls.  Please stop spreading this rumor.[/quote]

Agreed.  I know some very plain looking freshman at Walls.  You can say many things about the interview process, but it’s definitely not a beauty contest.[/quote]

The problem with implicit bias is that it is just that, implicit. No one goes into an interview looking for the best looking candidate. But what do we mean by "engaging" "socially comfortable", "our kind of people", etc.? Study after study has been done that proves the point. It is why standards and scoring rubrics need to be in place to guard against implicit bias. When (not if, when) the discrimination suit is filed alleging (insert protected class here), SWW will have no viable defense to those claims. The quantitative analysis alone will suffice because there will be no standards or other data on which rely or point.

My prediction is that 4 years down the road (assuming no change to the 2 minute interview) the test scores and quantitative measures will prove that eliminating data driven decisions in favor or "our kind of people" was detrimental to objective success. But because this is DC, an increase in diversity will cause the usual suspects to claim success in the name of "equity". Because nothing says equity like lowered expectations. [/quote]

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