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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]White UMC studnets have the best chance of getting in.[/quote]

Not true any more.[/quote]

It's not true anymore because the bar is higher for all students. They didn't need a 4.0 to qualify in the past. Now they do.[/quote]

Last GPA cut-off was 3.86.[/quote]

Serious question, is getting a 3.8 in a DCPS middle school really that difficult?  You can retake ever test and hand in assignments late. [/quote]

No, it's not at all. It basically screens in the motivated and ones attentive parents and screens out those with actual learning disabilities.

My current 8th grader basically never did homework last year at Deal.  We'd check ASPEN and see a dozen "WS" grades and grades ranging from C to F.  He'd meet with the teachers and then spend a week turning in all the work and retaking a few tests.  
We did this 4 times.  He ended up with straight As every quarter and a 4.0

Cleary this wasn't working so we actually moved him to rigorous private for 8th grade and now he does every assignment nightly as they don't accept any late work ever. (He got in because he has a sibling that attends and the school only requires 6th grade grades (also a 4.0) and the first quarter of 7th (which my kid had raised to all As before we submitted to the private) for application to 8th grade.

We're going to apply this kid to Walls.  Not sure yet what we'll do if he gets in. 
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