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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I've posted this on here before but I swear during my kid's interview year that all the super attractive kids were admitted. I'm thinking of my kid's friend group of a dozen kids--the few that made it were the conventionally attractive ones.

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Please do not start this again. It is really disgusting and totally undermines the kids who did get in. So sick of hearing this crap.[/quote]

DP. I wonder what you think the kids who were waitlisted with high numbers should think. Because Walls only went about 70 kids into the waitlist last year, but they took the time to rank all 211 of the students on the waitlist, so that the kids at the very very end would know with great precision exactly how insufficient they were. Speaking of undermining children.

The fact is, Walls runs an extremely faulty admissions process over a strong applicant pool, with results that do not say very much, one way or the other, about the kids who are accepted or rejected. I don’t think your kid was admitted because they’re pretty, but I do think that if your kid is deriving their sense of self-worth from having been admitted to Walls, you should help them find some more reliable sources of validation.[/quote]

I completely agree with you that no kid should derive their self-worth from having been admitted to Walls. Or to any school or team or job or friend group or any one thing for that matter. I would certainly encourage all parents to prepare their kids for the possibility of not being admitted before applying and that they have so many other things going for them other than the admission or attendance to this school. I also agree with you that the admissions process is faulty and it would be great if it gets better. I also hear you about how the waitlist ranking process can feel pretty crappy, but there are a limited number of spots, to which no one is entitled and there has to be some process for determining how those spots are awarded. Some one has to be last. This is also how a lot of other things in the world work, so preparing kids for the possibility of rejection is pretty important. What I have a huge problem with is the narrative that the kids who got in got in because they are attractive. Who does this narrative work for? It implies that the ones who got in only did because of their looks and that the ones who didn't weren't attractive enough. This doesn't work for any kid on either side and is just crap. So again, please stop with this.[/quote]

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