Sibling preference at Basis when they’re 4 years apart
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Anonymous
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I have two children. Older is in 8th grade at Basis, younger is in 4th at our IB school. Our IB middle is a non-starter.
Older DD has announced she wants to go to Walls next year. She loves Basis and would also be happy there for HS, but she wants Walls, and I think she has a shot (but who knows). If she doesn’t get into Walls, she’ll stay at Basis, either is great. How will this work with our younger DS in the lottery? He wants to go to Basis next year, and we desperately want him there. He’ll have sibling preference, so presumably, he’ll be offered a slot, and we’ll immediately enroll him. But what if DD gets a slot at Walls? He would immediately lose sibling preference at Basis if she enrolls there, right? Does that mean he loses his seat immediately if his number isn’t good enough? But he wouldn’t be on the waitlist for any other schools on his list since they would be lower on his list then Basis. My understanding is that this kind of thing is left to the discretion of the school. Has anyone been through this with Basis specifically? Or know someone who has? What happened? I don’t want to ask admin because I’d rather not tell them DD is thinking of leaving (especially since there’s a good chance she stays!) |
Anonymous
| I have the same question as you, and had planned to post this same question at some point in the future, so no answer forthcoming from me. But I wanted to let you know that I think autocorrect bungled your tread title, which might make it hard for people to interpret. |
Anonymous
| My understanding is that when the lottery runs, your older child is still at BASIS, so the younger one will get sibling preference. If your older child gets into Walls, they still have a month to decide whether they actually take the seat. In that month, you can accept the seat at BASIS for your younger child. |
Anonymous
This seems right. Just accept the BASIS seat and do all the paperwork before accepting the Walls seat. |
Anonymous
| Don't schools recompute order when sibling status changes? Can you really get around that by enrolling before that happens? |
Anonymous
| It would be absurd if a 4-year split does count as sibling preference. At that point, their is no efficiency gain for the family's logistics. It's just a legacy preference. |
Anonymous
Some schools definitely rescind offers if the sibling leaves. But my sense is that BASIS would not do that for a family that is successful at BASIS. But I don't know for sure. |
Anonymous
Oh wait. I re-read. i expect that eill work for your younger child, as unfair at it is. |
Anonymous
What do you mean? BASIS has both a middle school and high school in the same building. If the older child stays at BASIS, of course there's an efficiency gain for the family's logistics. |
Anonymous
Are you suggesting that if the older child wasn’t successful, BASIS wouldn’t extend the sibling preference to the younger child? Sounds arbitrary and capricious. |
Anonymous
| you will get sibling preference. (oldest might not get into walls and a younger son might not thrive at basis middle to quite the same extent as an older daughter but you will get the lottery sibling preference) |
Anonymous
Bolded words do not mean what you think they mean. |
Anonymous
| Can’t we have one called privilege preference? I mean, they have Clear at airports. People would be willing to pay! |
Anonymous
It would actually be the opposite of arbitrary and capricious if they had a standard rule that sifted siblings the same way every time. Unfair? Probably. Arbitrary and capricious? Literally the opposite. |
Anonymous
By making it to 8th grade, the older child is obviously successful (at passing each class, which is what BASIS cares about). So yeah I would assume the younger sibling of any BASIS 8th grader would be welcome at the school. But I'm guessing they just have a policy and system in place. |