Basis Acceptances for college
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Anonymous
Interesting that they had at least 2 different kids applying to UK schools (Oxbridge & Edinburgh). Seems sort of unusual for the area. I wonder what the link is. |
Anonymous
Kids who know what they want to study and are eager to finish their degree in 3 years, saving $$ over schools in the US? One student in the class of 2018 is enrolled in Spain. Seems overseas universities are popular among those kids. My DC is graduating from BASIS this year and seriously considered McGill and U of Toronto but decided not to in the end. |
Anonymous
I don't disagree. My husband is actually a Cambridge grad, so we've always thought that this might be an option for our DD. But whereas I've seen Canadian schools on lots of DC college destination lists, I've only seen UK schools a handful of times... so at least 2 different students applying from a small class seemed unusual and I wondered if there was some teacher/administrator with a connection. |
Anonymous
not at Basis, but we are considering Europe too. I am from Europe so kids have EU passport and UK or Scotland was natural target because kids' English is better than my other EU language and as EU citizen they get very discounted tuition, and schools are very good (from this point of view, I had a heart attack the day after the Brexit vote  ). In short, great schools, very low tuition or sometimes virtually no tuition, especially compared to the US. makes sense particularly for degrees in the science field. have many friends with at least one EU parents and they are considering the same thing. college in the USA is becoming ridiculously expensive
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Anonymous
No teacher or admin connections - there are some BASIS (in several grades, not just seniors) who are grads themselves. |
Anonymous
| 2 BASIS seniors admitted to MIT (one was also an Oxbridge admit). |
Anonymous
Wow! |
Anonymous
Oxbridge? The student got into MIT, Oxford, and Cambridge? |
Anonymous
No. You can’t get into both Oxford and Cambridge (can only apply to one or the other). One student got into MIT and Cambridge. Another student got into Oxford. A third got into MIT. |
Anonymous
You really can't change fields of study easily at UK schools, whereas a majority of US students change their desired major field during college. The U.S. also has a more fluid labor market, so grads need flexible skills. Overall, for a kid who will probably work in the US, I prefer a U.S. school. The unemployment rate is also generally about 8% in the Eurozone. It's lower in the UK, although with Brexit, who knows. Aiming for the US labor market is usually a better bet. |
Anonymous
Highly impressed with these DC BASIS acceptances just 8 or 9 into the program's existence. Oh come on. A 3-year degree at top UK university currently runs an UMC American parent (without EU citizenship) around 90k. By comparison, a 4-year degree at a top tier elite private US college now runs the same parent at least 250K. Multiply the savings by two children and you're talking about at least 300K. Which of us in the DC public school system past elementary in a tony neighborhood has 300K laying around? If you're in the fi aid "donut," with family earnings between around 150 and 250K (too rich too qualify for need-based aid, too poor to pay without borrowing heavily and staying in deep student loan debt into your dotage), you can probably live with pricey American schools being the "better bet." American students can even take Stafford Loans to study at any of two dozen European universities now - the Obama Administration introduced the option and Trump hasn't nixed it. A BMW or Mercedes is clearly a "better bet" than my Subaru Outback. But I'm not prepared to spend the next couple decades paying off a loan to afford a posh car any more than I'm prepared to do it for overpriced BAs for my children. I was employed by several international organizations in my 20s and 30s, working alongside with colleagues around my age who'd graduated from Oxford, Cambridge, great universities in London, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, Canada etc. The real difference between them and many of their young American colleagues was they were cruising along student loan-free and we weren't, not by a long shot. We brought similar skills and ambitions to the jobs, and sometimes had even earned the same grad degrees from elite US programs. I see UK universities as the "better bet" than American liberal arts colleges few of us have heard of because they're offering our children serious merit aid. |
Anonymous
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BASIS will end its 7th year in DC this spring. The students graduating this year began as 6th graders the year it opened. They are on the whole a bright and hard-working cohort. |
Anonymous
Who's to say that a kid who will "probably work in the US" can't return to this country for graduate school? I'm from Australia. My Ivy League law degree is from the US. Hello, there's been a globalization of higher education at top programs in the last 25 years or so. You go, BASIS seniors/families heading to the UK for undergrad, smart cookies that you are. |
Anonymous
Even more impressive, since none of these kids had the full BASIS treatment from 5th grade. |
Anonymous
| Intrigued. Right now we have a kid at one of the private schools that sends a lot of kids to college in Canada, Europe, etc. Will keep BASIS on my radar for 5th grade lottery (still several years away). |