Sibling preference at Basis when they’re 4 years apart

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:School website has its enrollment policies posted which answers this exact question!

Last line of the definition of a sibling.

Tough position to be facing.

https://enrollbasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/25-26-BDC-Enrollment-Policies.pdf

Good find. Here is what it says:

"If sibling status is granted, and the preference granting sibling subsequently withdraws, the sibling
preference will be revoked.

I'm sorry, OP! The lottery gods will have to shine on both kids this year to get Walls/BASIS. Unless your older child opts to stay.

OP here. But where does that leave us? If I put BASIS at the top of my son's lottery list, he won't be on the waitlist for any other schools. He'll be completely SOL, with nowhere to go but our inbound, even though presumably even a pretty crappy lottery number would have given him some options. How is that fair? Or since sibling preference is revoked, and his offer rescinded, will he then be added to the other waitlists at wherever his original lottery number would have put him? How would that even work?

Has anyone actually experienced this? At BASIS or anywhere else?

I know a family whose son was at Basis from 5th grade but applied out for 9th grade to private. His sister, in the same year, lotteried in to Basis for 5th grade. She was dying to go there. She got in based on sibling preference and started school as her brother started at a private school. The minute Basis figured out her brother was no longer at the school, they rescinded her enrollment and she was asked to leave. This is a true story. The daughter was devastated. She had been there at least a week (maybe longer) and she ended up at their local public school which was fine but not what they had planned. So, yes, Basis will absolutely pull the rug out from under you and you should prepare for that.

When was this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:School website has its enrollment policies posted which answers this exact question!

Last line of the definition of a sibling.

Tough position to be facing.

https://enrollbasis.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/02/25-26-BDC-Enrollment-Policies.pdf

Good find. Here is what it says:

"If sibling status is granted, and the preference granting sibling subsequently withdraws, the sibling
preference will be revoked.

I'm sorry, OP! The lottery gods will have to shine on both kids this year to get Walls/BASIS. Unless your older child opts to stay.

OP here. But where does that leave us? If I put BASIS at the top of my son's lottery list, he won't be on the waitlist for any other schools. He'll be completely SOL, with nowhere to go but our inbound, even though presumably even a pretty crappy lottery number would have given him some options. How is that fair? Or since sibling preference is revoked, and his offer rescinded, will he then be added to the other waitlists at wherever his original lottery number would have put him? How would that even work?

Has anyone actually experienced this? At BASIS or anywhere else?

I know a family whose son was at Basis from 5th grade but applied out for 9th grade to private. His sister, in the same year, lotteried in to Basis for 5th grade. She was dying to go there. She got in based on sibling preference and started school as her brother started at a private school. The minute Basis figured out her brother was no longer at the school, they rescinded her enrollment and she was asked to leave. This is a true story. The daughter was devastated. She had been there at least a week (maybe longer) and she ended up at their local public school which was fine but not what they had planned. So, yes, Basis will absolutely pull the rug out from under you and you should prepare for that.

This is a real bummer, OP.

But I guess a way to think about it is if they had been one year farther apart and your older kid went elsewhere for high school, your younger kid would have needed to get in on their own lottery luck, too.