Features

by Jesse Shuter

Staff Writer

By Jacob Lotkowski

Staff Writer

The SLA community comes together to interview over 900 kids every year, but after the interview weekends are over, the SLA student populous has no further say in the admissions decisions.

Every SLA student interviewer has gone through it as an incoming freshman especially: you get interviewed and you wait.  As a pending SLA student, many kids are left to think about how their interview went, what the teachers might have thought of them, if their project was liked or not. When a student gets accepted all those questions fade away.

It doesn’t matter to them why they made the cut–they did and they want to move forward with high school.

Upon looking into the process that SLA takes after the interview, the process is what you would come to expect after seeing how carefully we interview every student during our interview sessions.

Of the maybe 1,200 students that apply, a couple hundred of them don’t make the cut on the attendance/grades/conduct side and others from the interview side.

Then you are left with a majority that are looked at further. Jeremy and Ms. Siswick make calls to school counselors to get further insight on students and compile that information that goes along with interview notes and academic records.

In the simplest form the internal SLA admissions process is “Collecting data then making impossible decisions” as said by principal Lehmann.