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Anonymous
| Thanks! OP here—we’re coming from Takoma DC. At the open house I thought someone said we would have to contact the room parents for each grade and that there wasn’t a central directory. Will follow up on that since it sounds like maybe that’s not the case. |
Anonymous
Takoma Metro to Gallery Place, then walk to BASIS. Airtag on the kid or connect their phone to Find My Iphone/other tracking app. They’d need to leave so early that the train shouldn’t be very packed. |
Anonymous
This. You can also use Find My/tracking with an apple watch with cell service if you don’t want to get a smartphone for a 5th grader. |
Anonymous
There is a school directory, for anyone who opted into having their information shared. It doesn't come out for a while after the beginning of the school year, though. |
Anonymous
| Does anybody know what the first day of school for BASIS is? I can only find this years school calendar on the website |
Anonymous
| August 19 |
Anonymous
lol what? Metro is not dangerous. |
Anonymous
Thanks I knew I could count on the people of DCUM! |
Anonymous
You mean people of BASIS. |
Anonymous
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On the topic of BASIS DC, their latest list of college acceptances was sent out - not bad for a graduating class of around 60 kids. Obviously, some are the same kid getting in multiple places...
Alabama A & M University The University of Alabama Allegheny College American Academy of Art College American University Arizona State University-Tempe University of Arizona Aurora University Bentley University Binghamton University Boston College Bowie State University Bowling Green State University-Main Campus Brandeis University Brevard College Bryn Mawr College California College of the Arts University of California-Berkeley University of California-San Diego University of California-Santa Cruz Carleton College Case Western Reserve University The Catholic University of America University of Central Florida Central Washington University Chapman University College of Charleston Clark Atlanta University Clemson University University of Colorado Boulder University of Connecticut University of Delaware DePaul University Dickinson College Drexel University East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania Elizabeth City State University Elon University Emerson College Emory University Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University Florida State University Fordham University Fort Lewis College Frostburg State University George Mason University Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus Georgia State University University of Georgia Grambling State University Hampshire College Hampton University Harvard University Hood College University of Illinois Chicago University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Indiana University-Bloomington Indiana University-Bloomington (Kelley School of Business) University of Iowa Ithaca College James Madison University Johns Hopkins University Johnson & Wales University-Providence Kent State University at Kent Kent State University at Kent (Honors College) University of La Verne Lewis & Clark College Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College Manhattan College Marquette University Mary Baldwin University University of Mary Washington University of Maryland-Baltimore County University of Maryland-College Park Massachusetts College of Art and Design McGill University University of Miami Michigan State University Miles College University of Minnesota-Twin Cities University of Missouri-Columbia Morgan State University Mount St. Mary's University National Technical Institute for the Deaf New England College University of New Hampshire-Main Campus New Jersey Institute of Technology Norfolk State University North Carolina A & T State University University of North Carolina at Charlotte North Carolina Central University North Carolina State University at Raleigh University of North Florida Northeastern University Northern Virginia Community College Northland College Notre Dame of Maryland University Oberlin College Old Dominion University Pace University Pacific University University of the Pacific Palm Beach Atlantic University Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Main Campus Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Main Campus (College of Arts & Architecture) Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Main Campus (College of the Liberal Arts) Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Main Campus (Smeal College of Business) Pennsylvania College of Technology Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Schuylkill Pennsylvania State University-Penn State Erie-Behrend College University of Pennsylvania University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus Plymouth State University Pratt Institute-Main Purdue University-Main Campus Radford University Reed College Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Ringling College of Art and Design Rochester Institute of Technology Rutgers University-Camden Rutgers University-New Brunswick Rutgers University-Newark Salisbury University San Diego State University University of San Francisco Santa Clara University Sarah Lawrence College Savannah College of Art and Design Seton Hall University Shippensburg University of Pennsylvania University of South Carolina-Columbia University of Southern Maine Southern Methodist University Spelman College St. John's University-New York St. Joseph's University - New York St. Mary's College of Maryland Saint Norbert College Sterling College Stony Brook University SUNY Buffalo State SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry SUNY College at Geneseo SUNY College at Oswego SUNY College at Plattsburgh Syracuse University The University of Tampa Temple University Tennessee State University Ohio State University-Main Campus Thomas Jefferson University Trinity College Trinity Washington University Tufts University Union College (NY) University at Buffalo University of Lynchburg University of Oregon Vassar College Vermont State University (All Campuses) University of Vermont Virginia Commonwealth University Virginia State University Virginia Tech University of Virginia-Main Campus University of Virginia-Main Campus (College of Arts & Sciences) Warren Wilson College Washington Adventist University University of Washington-Seattle Campus Wellesley College Wentworth Institute of Technology Wesleyan University West Virginia State University West Virginia University William & Mary University of Wisconsin-Madison Worcester Polytechnic Institute Xavier University Yale University |
Anonymous
| Much better list than last year at any rate. Yale, Harvard, U Penn, Johns Hopkins, the rest meh, considering that these kids all had to take algebra no later than 7th grade. No MIT or Caltech. |
Anonymous
The "meh" included Berkeley, Emory, Bryn Mahr, Boston College, Wellesley, Wesleyan, UVA,Vassar, Tufts, SCAD, Reed, McGill, among others. We are an incoming family (just enrolled our 4th grader) and this is a good list. I would proudly send my kid to any of these schools. |
Anonymous
Lots of T25 and T50 schools there...certainly good results for such a small class |
Anonymous
Just because you take algebra in 7th grade you have to go to MIT or Caltech. What? Do you realize that DC only sends a handful of students to MIT each year, and Caltech even fewer? For what it worth, a BASIS DC grad from last year is at Caltech and one from BASIS McLean (which has the same curriculum) is going to MIT. If you want to go to MIT or Caltech, your best bet is to move to Fairfax County and go to TJ. |
Anonymous
I do wonder about the BASIS model as preparation for a place like MIT... my husband is an alum and they don't accept any AP credits (which BASIS seems to make a big deal out of tauting.) We are sending our son there next year but I am definitely curious about how well they are prepping kids for serious math and science careers. No clue if our kids want to follow in their Dad's footsteps. No legacy at MIT either so they will need to get in on their own merits. |