St. John’s College HS is appealing to lots of those students.

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Anonymous wrote:My 3.5-with-great-recs kid didn't get a Walls interview and is loving McKinley.

I don’t mean to be rude but how do you know they got great recs? Glad they are liking McKinley.

Because I know the teachers very well.

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Anonymous wrote:How do all of you know your children were “teacher favorites” or got good recs? As a teacher I find this assertion puzzling.

Yeah. I also think for Walls recs, the highest level rec from a teacher is something like "always seeks extra opportunity" (someone posted it one year). There are so many A kids with pleasant personalities that parents would assume are getting a good rec who don't do this.

I have one of the 4.0 kids that didn’t get an interview. Good grades, pleasant personality, but a go-getter? Not really. I think my kid’s recs were likely pretty great, but I know that Walls looks for kids that seek what PP stated — “always seeks extra opportunities” — and that’s just not my kid. That said, she is loving it at Banneker. Walls was my top choice for her, but Banneker was her top pick. I guess she knew herself and her needs in this regard, after all!

Anonymous wrote:How do all of you know your children were “teacher favorites” or got good recs? As a teacher I find this assertion puzzling.

Yeah. I also think for Walls recs, the highest level rec from a teacher is something like "always seeks extra opportunity" (someone posted it one year). There are so many A kids with pleasant personalities that parents would assume are getting a good rec who don't do this.

Anonymous wrote:How do all of you know your children were “teacher favorites” or got good recs? As a teacher I find this assertion puzzling.

this lol

I teach at a DCPS middle school and in addition to the schools mentioned above, we send great students every year to Coolidge (both the regular DCPS HS and the Early College program), Washington Leadership Academy, and Bard.

Post-COVID, in my experience, you need a 3.9/4 to get into Walls or Banneker. YMMV.

How do all of you know your children were “teacher favorites” or got good recs? As a teacher I find this assertion puzzling.

Anonymous wrote:My 3.5-with-great-recs kid didn't get a Walls interview and is loving McKinley.

My student has all As and one A- kid didn't get an interview at walls despite glowing recs as he is a teacher favorite. Didn't apply to Banneker and now doing well at McKinley.

It depends a lot on the school you come from. If it is a school with other 4.0 applicants, then your changes go down if you have less than a 4.0. If your school doesn't have a lot of other 4.0 applicants, you can likely get an interview with a 3.8 or even 3.7.

Cap city could be a good bet

Anonymous wrote:My 3.5-with-great-recs kid didn't get a Walls interview and is loving McKinley.

I don’t mean to be rude but how do you know they got great recs? Glad they are liking McKinley.

My 3.5-with-great-recs kid didn't get a Walls interview and is loving McKinley.