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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would love to hear suggestions about what could be done to address equity in access to the school and still be a school that  is focused on serving high achievers that includes high achievers from across the city..

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I was thinking maybe teacher recommendations? Like, each school can nominate x number of students that meet GPA, or certain class rank? Of course I’m worried about bias, but surely it can’t be worse than the interview, oy.[/quote]

I think there are probably also a lot of cases when the parent interviews affect the chance of their kid getting in. Everyone complains about "the interview" but I'm sure the rating scale also factors in the parent interview.[/quote]

Interviewer was awful -- if SWW want to weight that heavily on interviews they need a serious overhaul of the entire interview process (or maybe it was just revealing of school culture in general)

Agree with PP about teacher recs, scores, etc. . . you know - the evidence of all of the hard work my child put into an elite MS transcript which amounted to a hopelessly high waitlist # at SWW.  Maybe over a 10 min interview?  What a joke[/quote]

SWW explicitly said that the parent interview would not matter.  My straight A student (very personable) was asked two questions with no follow-ups.  Despite being told that everyone would have a 10 minute interview, it took less than four minutes, including the questions she asked the interviewer and students. We were asked one question.  It was mind boggling. They literally could not have learned anything about these kids.  This process if very similar to others we have heard about, while we heard that some kids did get a full 10 minutes (still woefully inadequate to glean much from a 13 year old, let alone have it account for 80 percent of admissions). The kids we know who were accepted vs rejected was essentially random--some very high performing, charming kids got waitlisted (high numbers), some kids with lower GPAs and less social skills got in.  I agree with the PP who suggested a FOIA request...that would answer a lot of the questions that folks are merely speculating about.  My guess is the reason that nobody has done is that, at the end of the day, the families at Walls don't end up all that thrilled with it so nobody goes to the trouble of following through on why their kid didn't get in.[/quote]

If you care enough to post here, why didn’t you file a FOIA request and publish the results here?

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