BASIS Drama Program

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Drama at BASIS is no different than sports or music or whatever else. The cash-strapped school in the cramped building simply doesn't offer much in the way of serious enrichment. But it you're willing and able to pay, and to shuttle your kid around town to access strong ECs, you can find them. If that's the best you can do by your teens, you do it. The main reason we didn't stay for HS was because my kids were fed up with the lonely outside ECs shuffle. They wanted to do serious activities with classmates after school. We're not religious but since we couldn't afford a strong non-sectarian private, we headed to a Catholic HS. Worth it.

No one cares. This is a thread about the Basis drama teacher and you reverted to your usual anti-Basis rant about your kid who washed out years ago. Maybe find another hobby other than spewing vitriol about Basis wherever you can.

[Anonymous]

Why is there 3 pages on this.

Basis doesn’t have a comprehensive or robust drama. If your kid wants this at their school, then Basis isn’t the school for them.

THE END.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Drama at BASIS is no different than sports or music or whatever else. The cash-strapped school in the cramped building simply doesn't offer much in the way of serious enrichment. But it you're willing and able to pay, and to shuttle your kid around town to access strong ECs, you can find them. If that's the best you can do by your teens, you do it. The main reason we didn't stay for HS was because my kids were fed up with the lonely outside ECs shuffle. They wanted to do serious activities with classmates after school. We're not religious but since we couldn't afford a strong non-sectarian private, we headed to a Catholic HS. Worth it.

True that the options are limited in the school, but you don’t shuttle the students. That is an elementary school perspective. Many kids get themselves to outside activities. After 5th grade, the parents aren’t involved in transportation much.

The parents with middle schoolers that I know absolutely shuttle their kids to various activities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why is there 3 pages on this.

Basis doesn’t have a comprehensive or robust drama. If your kid wants this at their school, then Basis isn’t the school for them.

THE END.

Why is this thread, OP and anybody who posted on it?

BASIS obviously doesn't have comprehensive or robust ECs period.

If your family prioritizes those t hings at school, then BASIS isn't the school for you.

Nobody in charge at BASIS, along with most of families there, gives a hoot about serious drama, or music, or art or sports at school since Ivy League and MIT admissions are possible without them.

THE END.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is there 3 pages on this.

Basis doesn’t have a comprehensive or robust drama. If your kid wants this at their school, then Basis isn’t the school for them.

THE END.

Why is this thread, OP and anybody who posted on it?

BASIS obviously doesn't have comprehensive or robust ECs period.

If your family prioritizes those t hings at school, then BASIS isn't the school for you.

Nobody in charge at BASIS, along with most of families there, gives a hoot about serious drama, or music, or art or sports at school since Ivy League and MIT admissions are possible without them.

THE END.

I spoke to the new music teacher there and she’s trying to get a performance program started. From what she said, it sounds like she’s actually getting a lot of support from admin on this. And they’re offering band camp in the summer program this year, so it sounds like maybe they do care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is there 3 pages on this.

Basis doesn’t have a comprehensive or robust drama. If your kid wants this at their school, then Basis isn’t the school for them.

THE END.

Why is this thread, OP and anybody who posted on it?

BASIS obviously doesn't have comprehensive or robust ECs period.

If your family prioritizes those t hings at school, then BASIS isn't the school for you.

Nobody in charge at BASIS, along with most of families there, gives a hoot about serious drama, or music, or art or sports at school since Ivy League and MIT admissions are possible without them.

THE END.

Sorry but above is not true. Kids taking a dozen AP courses are a dime a dozen, You need more with EC or stand out sports and even that is not enough. Legacy on top of that helps.

Now if you are a sport superstar or URM with great grades then that might be the exception.

Don’t kid yourself that AP’ s are enough. It’s not.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is there 3 pages on this.

Basis doesn’t have a comprehensive or robust drama. If your kid wants this at their school, then Basis isn’t the school for them.

THE END.

Why is this thread, OP and anybody who posted on it?

BASIS obviously doesn't have comprehensive or robust ECs period.

If your family prioritizes those t hings at school, then BASIS isn't the school for you.

Nobody in charge at BASIS, along with most of families there, gives a hoot about serious drama, or music, or art or sports at school since Ivy League and MIT admissions are possible without them.

THE END.

I spoke to the new music teacher there and she’s trying to get a performance program started. From what she said, it sounds like she’s actually getting a lot of support from admin on this. And they’re offering band camp in the summer program this year, so it sounds like maybe they do care.

I sometimes wonder if the very bitter people who post on these threads have old information. The ECs have been incrementally growing, I'm sure it's all much better than it was even 5 years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is there 3 pages on this.

Basis doesn’t have a comprehensive or robust drama. If your kid wants this at their school, then Basis isn’t the school for them.

THE END.

Why is this thread, OP and anybody who posted on it?

BASIS obviously doesn't have comprehensive or robust ECs period.

If your family prioritizes those t hings at school, then BASIS isn't the school for you.

Nobody in charge at BASIS, along with most of families there, gives a hoot about serious drama, or music, or art or sports at school since Ivy League and MIT admissions are possible without them.

THE END.

I spoke to the new music teacher there and she’s trying to get a performance program started. From what she said, it sounds like she’s actually getting a lot of support from admin on this. And they’re offering band camp in the summer program this year, so it sounds like maybe they do care.

I sometimes wonder if the very bitter people who post on these threads have old information. The ECs have been incrementally growing, I'm sure it's all much better than it was even 5 years ago.

When we toured the school, both 8th graders that they picked to talk to us said that they did ZERO ECs at BASIS. They had both once done one club (some kind of martial arts in one case and I can't remember the other) and that was it. That is frankly staggering to hear from handpicked -- and otherwise extremely impressive-seeming, it must be noted -- students.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is there 3 pages on this.

Basis doesn’t have a comprehensive or robust drama. If your kid wants this at their school, then Basis isn’t the school for them.

THE END.

Why is this thread, OP and anybody who posted on it?

BASIS obviously doesn't have comprehensive or robust ECs period.

If your family prioritizes those t hings at school, then BASIS isn't the school for you.

Nobody in charge at BASIS, along with most of families there, gives a hoot about serious drama, or music, or art or sports at school since Ivy League and MIT admissions are possible without them.

THE END.

Sorry but above is not true. Kids taking a dozen AP courses are a dime a dozen, You need more with EC or stand out sports and even that is not enough. Legacy on top of that helps.

Now if you are a sport superstar or URM with great grades then that might be the exception.

Don’t kid yourself that AP’ s are enough. It’s not.

There are about 4 million HS grads a year. About 30,000, or less than 1 percent, took more than 12 APs over the 2021-2024 period (source: https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/number-of-ap-exams-per-student-2024.pdf) It's not insanely rare, but I wouldn't call it "a dime a dozen."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is there 3 pages on this.

Basis doesn’t have a comprehensive or robust drama. If your kid wants this at their school, then Basis isn’t the school for them.

THE END.

Why is this thread, OP and anybody who posted on it?

BASIS obviously doesn't have comprehensive or robust ECs period.

If your family prioritizes those t hings at school, then BASIS isn't the school for you.

Nobody in charge at BASIS, along with most of families there, gives a hoot about serious drama, or music, or art or sports at school since Ivy League and MIT admissions are possible without them.

THE END.

Sorry but above is not true. Kids taking a dozen AP courses are a dime a dozen, You need more with EC or stand out sports and even that is not enough. Legacy on top of that helps.

Now if you are a sport superstar or URM with great grades then that might be the exception.

Don’t kid yourself that AP’ s are enough. It’s not.

One of our kids graduated from Basis, and we have another one currently enrolled.

As far as ECs are concerned, they both participate(d) in multiple sports, model un, nhs, etc. Something to think about regarding sports - Basis teams will seldom compete at a high level - soccer is probably the best represented, as most of the kids also play on travel teams. That being said, it's pretty hard for such a small school to compete against other schools with much larger student bodies.

However, if your kids *wants to play*, they have a much better chance of making a varsity team than they would at a large public or private.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is there 3 pages on this.

Basis doesn’t have a comprehensive or robust drama. If your kid wants this at their school, then Basis isn’t the school for them.

THE END.

Why is this thread, OP and anybody who posted on it?

BASIS obviously doesn't have comprehensive or robust ECs period.

If your family prioritizes those t hings at school, then BASIS isn't the school for you.

Nobody in charge at BASIS, along with most of families there, gives a hoot about serious drama, or music, or art or sports at school since Ivy League and MIT admissions are possible without them.

THE END.

I spoke to the new music teacher there and she’s trying to get a performance program started. From what she said, it sounds like she’s actually getting a lot of support from admin on this. And they’re offering band camp in the summer program this year, so it sounds like maybe they do care.

I sometimes wonder if the very bitter people who post on these threads have old information. The ECs have been incrementally growing, I'm sure it's all much better than it was even 5 years ago.

When we toured the school, both 8th graders that they picked to talk to us said that they did ZERO ECs at BASIS. They had both once done one club (some kind of martial arts in one case and I can't remember the other) and that was it. That is frankly staggering to hear from handpicked -- and otherwise extremely impressive-seeming, it must be noted -- students.

Ok?

We are at the school now, and I can read you a couple highlights from the most recent "coach's corner" newsletter:

"The coed middle school baseball team finished their regular season play with a record of 9 wins and only 1 loss. The team broke their winning streak in a tough one point loss to DCI two weeks ago but got another win against KIPP Honor this past week. The team will go into playoffs this week as the #1 seed. Good Luck Red Giants!"

"The High School Track & Field team competed at the PCSAA Championship Meet this past week over the course of two days. The girls team pulled off an amazing 2nd place out of 14 teams"

"The Middle School Track & Field team also competed at the PCSAA Championship this past week. The girls team came home with 2nd place overall and the boys team with 3rd place overall out of 22 total teams."

Many, many more kids participate in sports at BASIS than they did 10 or even 5 years ago (for example, only a couple high schoolers play baseball on a combined team with Latin, but apparently the middle school has enough kids to have an entire winning team).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is there 3 pages on this.

Basis doesn’t have a comprehensive or robust drama. If your kid wants this at their school, then Basis isn’t the school for them.

THE END.

Why is this thread, OP and anybody who posted on it?

BASIS obviously doesn't have comprehensive or robust ECs period.

If your family prioritizes those t hings at school, then BASIS isn't the school for you.

Nobody in charge at BASIS, along with most of families there, gives a hoot about serious drama, or music, or art or sports at school since Ivy League and MIT admissions are possible without them.

THE END.

Sorry but above is not true. Kids taking a dozen AP courses are a dime a dozen, You need more with EC or stand out sports and even that is not enough. Legacy on top of that helps.

Now if you are a sport superstar or URM with great grades then that might be the exception.

Don’t kid yourself that AP’ s are enough. It’s not.

One of our kids graduated from Basis, and we have another one currently enrolled.

As far as ECs are concerned, they both participate(d) in multiple sports, model un, nhs, etc. Something to think about regarding sports - Basis teams will seldom compete at a high level - soccer is probably the best represented, as most of the kids also play on travel teams. That being said, it's pretty hard for such a small school to compete against other schools with much larger student bodies.

However, if your kids *wants to play*, they have a much better chance of making a varsity team than they would at a large public or private.

This. The kids have tons of ECs. I don't know of any who doesn't do at least a sport and an academic, and most I know do several. By the end of high school, most have at least one that is not school related (dance, rowing, yag etc) but they seem to like it. My kids are very dedicated to school sports in a way that they would not be if it was a bigger school for the reasons pp said - they work very hard, but they probably wouldn't have made the varsity team elsewhere. There is a big culture of participating and trying hard even if you aren't the absolute best.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why is there 3 pages on this.

Basis doesn’t have a comprehensive or robust drama. If your kid wants this at their school, then Basis isn’t the school for them.

THE END.

Why is this thread, OP and anybody who posted on it?

BASIS obviously doesn't have comprehensive or robust ECs period.

If your family prioritizes those t hings at school, then BASIS isn't the school for you.

Nobody in charge at BASIS, along with most of families there, gives a hoot about serious drama, or music, or art or sports at school since Ivy League and MIT admissions are possible without them.

THE END.

Sorry but above is not true. Kids taking a dozen AP courses are a dime a dozen, You need more with EC or stand out sports and even that is not enough. Legacy on top of that helps.

Now if you are a sport superstar or URM with great grades then that might be the exception.

Don’t kid yourself that AP’ s are enough. It’s not.

There are about 4 million HS grads a year. About 30,000, or less than 1 percent, took more than 12 APs over the 2021-2024 period (source: https://apcentral.collegeboard.org/media/pdf/number-of-ap-exams-per-student-2024.pdf) It's not insanely rare, but I wouldn't call it "a dime a dozen."

NP they are a dime a dozen when applying to top universities. And you compete with international students as well.