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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid who has a whole lot going for them and is also extroverted did not get a Walls interview. [b] So you move on.  [/b]End of story.  [/quote]

This. My kid did not get an interview, but he applied to a handful of the selective schools and wound up at one that has been a terrific fit. If he'd gone to our IB (J-R), I'm sure he would have been just fine there, too. I'm not bitter about Walls; I'm happy he's doing well and likes where he is, now. I know parents who are bitter about their kid not getting in, and it is so annoying.[/quote]

It is harder to take when your kid has a 4.0 and doesn't even get an interview, and you don't have J-R as a perfectly acceptable backup option. I am hoping that Banneker or Duke works out -- if one does or my kid lucks into one of the very few slots at Latin or DCI, then I promise not to be bitter; until then, I am a little bitter that the process is sufficiently random that my kid who has a 4.0 in the hardest classes on offer at her school, is very involved in many aspects of school, and got recommendations that the recommenders deemed as good as they gave didn't even get an interview. It's easier not to be bitter if your alternative is J-R. And no, we aren't in a financial position to move.[/quote]

A 4.0 is par for the course and not at all unusual. Get used to it as it will be the same when your kid is applying to colleges. A 4.0 actually meant something 25 years ago but grade inflation is rampant.[/quote]

The point honestly isn't that I think my kid is super special, it's that she could not have done better. So maxing out what was within her control, she still couldn't even get an interview. Yes, that makes me bitter.[/quote]

This really breaks my heart and angers me as a dc taxpayer. Walls is an application only school- every kid should be evaluated not just on gpa but what classes they chose to take and how they performed on tests. [/quote]
My kid doesn't get to choose her classes at a DCPS middle school.  Other than which language and math acceleration, which is determined the first two weeks of 6th grade, it's all set. (She was deeply annoyed to discover that there is no advanced English option.)[/quote]

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