Do parents choose Latin/BASIS over Deal/J-R?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are the Basis demographics?

The website says that the average Basis graduate earns $112k in scholarships.

This would imply that incomes are quite low because top schools don't award merit.

However, I wonder if they are being lazy and taking the total scholarships awarded for admittances and then dividing by the student body.

So, if one kid is admitted to 10 schools with a free ride to each, that total amount is divided by all students.

Less than ten percent FARMS but it feels middle class (the whole range, lower to mid to upper)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What are the Basis demographics?

The website says that the average Basis graduate earns $112k in scholarships.

This would imply that incomes are quite low because top schools don't award merit.

However, I wonder if they are being lazy and taking the total scholarships awarded for admittances and then dividing by the student body.

So, if one kid is admitted to 10 schools with a free ride to each, that total amount is divided by all students.

-You can look up the demographics. They draw from all over DC

-Your numbers are out of date. The Class of 2024 earned $10.2 million in merit scholarships, which works out to $165,000 per student.

-You really can't assume anything about income from these numbers. These are MERIT scholarships. Plus, maybe a poor student was accepted to Harvard via Questbridge and never applied to other schools to get a merit scholarship.

-Plenty of top schools offer merit scholarships including Duke, UVa, Vanderbilt, and Emory.

-Lots of schools provide a merit scholarship number because many kids would, say, pick a full ride to Duke over having to go to Princeton and have to get loans to cover a chunk of the tuition. A high number means that a lot of kids are highly sought after by colleges since a bunch of colleges are willing to pay kids a lot of money to come.

[Anonymous]

My kid was in class of 2024. He got lots of merit awards, none of which we used b/c he didn't attend those particular schools. I'm sure his awards were just added to the total.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are the Basis demographics?

The website says that the average Basis graduate earns $112k in scholarships.

This would imply that incomes are quite low because top schools don't award merit.

However, I wonder if they are being lazy and taking the total scholarships awarded for admittances and then dividing by the student body.

So, if one kid is admitted to 10 schools with a free ride to each, that total amount is divided by all students.

-You can look up the demographics. They draw from all over DC

-Your numbers are out of date. The Class of 2024 earned $10.2 million in merit scholarships, which works out to $165,000 per student.

-You really can't assume anything about income from these numbers. These are MERIT scholarships. Plus, maybe a poor student was accepted to Harvard via Questbridge and never applied to other schools to get a merit scholarship.

-Plenty of top schools offer merit scholarships including Duke, UVa, Vanderbilt, and Emory.

-Lots of schools provide a merit scholarship number because many kids would, say, pick a full ride to Duke over having to go to Princeton and have to get loans to cover a chunk of the tuition. A high number means that a lot of kids are highly sought after by colleges since a bunch of colleges are willing to pay kids a lot of money to come.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are the Basis demographics?

The website says that the average Basis graduate earns $112k in scholarships.

This would imply that incomes are quite low because top schools don't award merit.

However, I wonder if they are being lazy and taking the total scholarships awarded for admittances and then dividing by the student body.

So, if one kid is admitted to 10 schools with a free ride to each, that total amount is divided by all students.

-You can look up the demographics. They draw from all over DC

-Your numbers are out of date. The Class of 2024 earned $10.2 million in merit scholarships, which works out to $165,000 per student.

-You really can't assume anything about income from these numbers. These are MERIT scholarships. Plus, maybe a poor student was accepted to Harvard via Questbridge and never applied to other schools to get a merit scholarship.

-Plenty of top schools offer merit scholarships including Duke, UVa, Vanderbilt, and Emory.

-Lots of schools provide a merit scholarship number because many kids would, say, pick a full ride to Duke over having to go to Princeton and have to get loans to cover a chunk of the tuition. A high number means that a lot of kids are highly sought after by colleges since a bunch of colleges are willing to pay kids a lot of money to come.

Places like Duke and Vanderbilt only award merit to like 1% of the students.

Emory and UVA it's a bit more generous, but still a small percentage.

I guess a kid that is going to Harvard full pay could also have applied to safety schools and awarded a bunch of merit, so I suppose their merit award may be included in the calculation even though the kid never used it.

[Anonymous]

That is not how QuestBridge works.

[Anonymous]

I've hear the music teacher there is trying to get a band started, but the school lacks facilities for a true program.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:if so weak, how does Basis DC already have 6 ivy leaguers out of 45 kids...with other high level acceptances pending?

Anonymous wrote:This. Pretend otherwise if it makes you feel good, but going with high schools with weak ECs comes at a cost.

You want both strong academics and ECs across the board. But you can’t find that pairing in any DC public high school, not even Walls.

Shouting down parents with the temerity to point this out on DCUM won’t help.

The BASIS haters can't stand the good college results and will find some way to diminish that achievement.

These high-achieving kids will be stunted for life because Basis only offers a smattering of music classes including AP Music Theory. The lack of a Basis symphony, jazz band, and choir will haunt them forever.

[Anonymous]

Go on, mock those who call out BASIS' relentless dreariness if you think it's cute.

If your kid can crack an Ivy from an unhappy high school like BASIS, so you don't have to find one that keeps them sane, more power to you. Mine refused to return after 8th grade, which was annoying. He wanted to play his wind instrument with classmates in a school orchestra that plays the score for school musicals. He wanted to study a language at the advanced level from 9th grade, to make it a year or two past AP level. He wanted to take multiple AP physics exams eventually (there are four, BASIS only teaches the content for one). He wanted a strong visual arts program.

I enrolled him at public high school in VA, where my ex lives. He missed friends at BASIS for a year or two, but that's about it. He was admitted to my alma mater, a top 10 SLAC Early Admissions in the fall.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go on, mock those who call out BASIS' relentless dreariness if you think it's cute.

If your kid can crack an Ivy from an unhappy high school like BASIS, so you don't have to find one that keeps them sane, more power to you. Mine refused to return after 8th grade, which was annoying. He wanted to play his wind instrument with classmates in a school orchestra that plays the score for school musicals. He wanted to study a language at the advanced level from 9th grade, to make it a year or two past AP level. He wanted to take multiple AP physics exams eventually (there are four, BASIS only teaches the content for one). He wanted a strong visual arts program.

I enrolled him at public high school in VA, where my ex lives. He missed friends at BASIS for a year or two, but that's about it. He was admitted to my alma mater, a top 10 SLAC Early Admissions in the fall.

Yawn.

Youn post the same drivel every time.

[Anonymous]

Nope. The drivel is found in several spurious claims about BASIS commonly made on these threads:

* J-R district families mob BASIS.
*Strong enrichment for teens in high school is unnecessary.
*Most students who leave BASIS, wash out. They're the weak who can't handle the curriculum.

Unless you face up to the drivel, you're the bore. Every time.

[Anonymous]

NP with one kid at Walls and younger sib still at BASIS. I don’t disagree. If you can leave for greener pastures you do. It’s not about hating, it’s about access to a better education if you can find it. Most BASIS families can’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Nope. The drivel is found in several spurious claims about BASIS commonly made on these threads:

* J-R district families mob BASIS.
*Strong enrichment for teens in high school is unnecessary.
*Most students who leave BASIS, wash out. They're the weak who can't handle the curriculum.

Unless you face up to the drivel, you're the bore. Every time.

That is drivel so you must be the bore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP with one kid at Walls and younger sib still at BASIS. I don’t disagree. If you can leave for greener pastures you do. It’s not about hating, it’s about access to a better education if you can find it. Most BASIS families can’t.

It is called school choice for a reason, Captain Obvious.

[Anonymous]

More like school chance and little in the way of good choices for middle school.

[Anonymous]

In SY23-24 there were 1640 9-12 grade students in boundary for Jackson-Reed attending a DCPS or DCPCS school. Of those 1640:
- 1088 attended Jackson-Reed (66%)
- 164 attended SWW (10%)
- 82 attended CHEC (5%)
- 50 attended DCI (3%)
- 46 attended Duke Ellington (3%)
- 36 attended Washington Latin (2%)
- 33 attended Banneker (2%)
- 28 attended MacArthur (2%)
- 17 Roosevelt (1%)
- 15 Coolidge (<1%)
- 12 attended BASIS (<1%)

There were 1570 6-8 grade students in boundary for Deal attending a DCPS or DCPCS school. Of those 1570:
- 1149 attended Deal (73%)
- 86 attended DCI (5%)
- 71 attended CHEC (5%)
- 44 attended Latin (3%)
- 34 attended MacFarland (2%)
- 21 attended Oyster-Adams (1%)
- 17 attended BASIS (1%)

Students in-boundary for Deal and Jackson-Reed made up 4% of the BASIS student body (not enough data to say what % were 5th graders from Deal feeders).

Students in-boundary for Deal made up 11% of the Washington Latin Middle student body (not enough data to say what % were 5th graders from Deal feeders).

Students in-boundary for Jackson-Reed made up 10% of the Washington Latin Upper student body.

https://dme.dc.gov/publication/sy2023-24-public-school-enrollments-dcps-boundary

[Anonymous]

Thanks for digging up these good stats.

Yeah, just as we thought. Hardly anybody in-boundary for Deal bothers with BASIS.

Interesting that Latin attracts quite a few in-boundary for Deal. That doesn't surprise me since Latin's classes are smaller than Deal's, its cohorts are much smaller, and its demographic are comparable.