BASIS early acceptances
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Anonymous
Pp - 6 different kids. 3 at Yale, 1 Dartmouth, 1 MIT and 1 Tufts early confirmed. |
Anonymous
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Thanks. Congrats to those kids, their parents and teachers.
Fingers crossed for the rest of the class. Hope they all end up in places where they will thrive. |
Anonymous
| Get a life. Popular DC charters really shouldn't have to operate n buildings like BASIS', with weak facilities. The city council really needs to step up to ensure that facilities are good for both successful DCPS and DCPCS programs. Voters clearly need to organize and lobby for this to change. |
Anonymous
3 admits to Yale out of a class of 40 some students? That seems really high/great! |
Anonymous
It is really high. My DC graduated from BASIS last year, and says the class of 2020 is really strong / these results aren't a huge surprise to them. All those kids have worked really hard and more than half of this year's seniors have opted to do the optional independent senior project. They are well-prepared for college. |
Anonymous
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Awesome news for those students.
Hope all the seniors land at the place that is the best fit for them. --BASIS middle school parent |
Anonymous
So that must mean getting admitted to MIT isn't such a great thing either? |
Anonymous
Just curious if the Yale kids are all legacy? |
Anonymous
Congrats to the all the kids. Hard work and high academic standards/expectations within a highly performing peer group paid off. |
Anonymous
No. One is a legacy, one is a Questbridge scholar and the other is otherwise unhooked. |
Anonymous
| OK, rah rah, boost boost, great job. This intriguing thread would be a lot more interesting and useful if we learned something about these future Yalies and the MIT applicant. Are they legacies, as has already been asked? Are they AA, white, Asian, low SES or high? Did families hire independent college counselors? Did their families seek out strong extra-curriculars BASIS doesn't offer over the years? Are they strong in English, foreign languages, science, math? Yea, we get the part about them having worked really hard while comprising a high-performing cohort since 5th grade, and overcoming the odds despite having gone to school in a building without so much as a computer lab in a school system without formal GT. |
Anonymous
Ivy legacies are normally high SES white kids, so that's interesting. Whatever "unhooked" means. Being a legacy certainly isn't the only way to be "hooked." An applicant can be recruited by a faculty member or department for high achievement in at least one area, e.g. winning a Westinghouse prize. |
Anonymous
No connection to the school, we are IB for Wilson with an elementary kid. But while interesting, I'd hope people to keep these details to a minimum, especially with such a small class. |
Anonymous
Hooked is used as a shorthand for legacies or children or major donors, recruited athletes, and under-represented minorities. And none of these students won a Westinghouse prize or the like. |
Anonymous
| children OF major donors (aka Jared Kushner) |