BASIS early acceptances

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not buying it. You're in no position to know how many got in early without being a Yale admissions officer, which you aren't.

Incorrect. Yale tells all alumni interviewers in DC that info. 18 kids from 9 schools.

which 9 schools do you think these are?

The ones I know for sure are:

Wilson
Basis
Sidwell
GDS
NCS
St. Albans
NCS

Which other 2?

Walls?
?

[Anonymous]

NP. The big picture matters.

We could have seen these sort of early college acceptances from DCPS programs this year if city leaders were serious about injecting real rigor for high achievers into DCPS K-12 programs across the District.

They aren't.

[Anonymous]

Walls doesn’t have great facilities either. Just one building

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Walls doesn’t have great facilities either. Just one building

With no gum (they go to GWU when GW has a time slot available). Back in the day (80s) SWW wasn’t supposed to have any of those sort of resources ... kind of like BASIS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:NP. The big picture matters.

We could have seen these sort of early college acceptances from DCPS programs this year if city leaders were serious about injecting real rigor for high achievers into DCPS K-12 programs across the District.

They aren't.

Maybe. But keep in mind that about half of BASIS students (and the BDC alums who are at selective colleges now) were in DCPS schools from PK-4 or 5. And many BDC students go back to DCPS for high school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Not buying it. You're in no position to know how many got in early without being a Yale admissions officer, which you aren't.

Incorrect. Yale tells all alumni interviewers in DC that info. 18 kids from 9 schools.

which 9 schools do you think these are?

The ones I know for sure are:

Wilson
Basis
Sidwell
GDS
NCS
St. Albans
NCS

Which other 2?

Walls?
?

One is definitely Maret.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. The big picture matters.

We could have seen these sort of early college acceptances from DCPS programs this year if city leaders were serious about injecting real rigor for high achievers into DCPS K-12 programs across the District.

They aren't.

Maybe. But keep in mind that about half of BASIS students (and the BDC alums who are at selective colleges now) were in DCPS schools from PK-4 or 5. And many BDC students go back to DCPS for high school.

Come on DCPS booster, preK -4 or 5 is not where it’s at to get into the top colleges. Please....

It’s a rigorous middle school curriculum compounded on top of a even more rigorous high school experience. That’s not happening in DCPS and why there is silence on the Wilson front of kids getting into top schools ED.

[Anonymous]

+100. Exactly.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Walls doesn’t have great facilities either. Just one building

Walls is a palace compared to BASIS, yet BASIS is the program getting multiple students into Yale and MIT in the last two years, not even a decade into the program's existence, not Walls. I'm no BASIS booster and my children don't attend, but these results impress me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. The big picture matters.

We could have seen these sort of early college acceptances from DCPS programs this year if city leaders were serious about injecting real rigor for high achievers into DCPS K-12 programs across the District.

They aren't.

Maybe. But keep in mind that about half of BASIS students (and the BDC alums who are at selective colleges now) were in DCPS schools from PK-4 or 5. And many BDC students go back to DCPS for high school.

Come on DCPS booster, preK -4 or 5 is not where it’s at to get into the top colleges. Please....

It’s a rigorous middle school curriculum compounded on top of a even more rigorous high school experience. That’s not happening in DCPS and why there is silence on the Wilson front of kids getting into top schools ED.

What an odd thing to post directly after the poster noting the 4 Wilson kids admitted to Yale.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. The big picture matters.

We could have seen these sort of early college acceptances from DCPS programs this year if city leaders were serious about injecting real rigor for high achievers into DCPS K-12 programs across the District.

They aren't.

Maybe. But keep in mind that about half of BASIS students (and the BDC alums who are at selective colleges now) were in DCPS schools from PK-4 or 5. And many BDC students go back to DCPS for high school.

Come on DCPS booster, preK -4 or 5 is not where it’s at to get into the top colleges. Please....

It’s a rigorous middle school curriculum compounded on top of a even more rigorous high school experience. That’s not happening in DCPS and why there is silence on the Wilson front of kids getting into top schools ED.

What an odd thing to post directly after the poster noting the 4 Wilson kids admitted to Yale.

Read the thread. No such post.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. The big picture matters.

We could have seen these sort of early college acceptances from DCPS programs this year if city leaders were serious about injecting real rigor for high achievers into DCPS K-12 programs across the District.

They aren't.

Maybe. But keep in mind that about half of BASIS students (and the BDC alums who are at selective colleges now) were in DCPS schools from PK-4 or 5. And many BDC students go back to DCPS for high school.

Come on DCPS booster, preK -4 or 5 is not where it’s at to get into the top colleges. Please....

It’s a rigorous middle school curriculum compounded on top of a even more rigorous high school experience. That’s not happening in DCPS and why there is silence on the Wilson front of kids getting into top schools ED.

What an odd thing to post directly after the poster noting the 4 Wilson kids admitted to Yale.

Huh? No way Wilson got 4 kids into Yale early.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:More "progressive charter" curricula for MS & HS? Washington Latin's curriculum looks a whole lot like the one my devout Catholic grandfather followed in the 1920s! All that school Latin helped him enter a seminary afterwards, until he decided not to graduate to become a priest. We want our children to study modern languages and current affairs in school. BASIS' STEM heavy curriculum is really weak on English lit. From where I sit, DCPS' MS and HS curriculum isn't the problem - lack of academic rigor is, and in a big way.

Surely you know that students at Latin also study an additional language, and that current events are a major part of the curriculum?

There’s a poster who always pipes in on these threads to talk about how weak Basis is and how old-fashioned Latin is. I’m sure Stuart-Hobson will be fine for you, but why dump on other people’s choices all the time? Where other people send their children doesn’t have anything to do with yours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:NP. The big picture matters.

We could have seen these sort of early college acceptances from DCPS programs this year if city leaders were serious about injecting real rigor for high achievers into DCPS K-12 programs across the District.

They aren't.

Maybe. But keep in mind that about half of BASIS students (and the BDC alums who are at selective colleges now) were in DCPS schools from PK-4 or 5. And many BDC students go back to DCPS for high school.

Come on DCPS booster, preK -4 or 5 is not where it’s at to get into the top colleges. Please....

It’s a rigorous middle school curriculum compounded on top of a even more rigorous high school experience. That’s not happening in DCPS and why there is silence on the Wilson front of kids getting into top schools ED.

What an odd thing to post directly after the poster noting the 4 Wilson kids admitted to Yale.

Huh? No way Wilson got 4 kids into Yale early.

Um, ok. My kid just told me their names. This is pretty consistent year to year. Last year, 17 applied, 4 admitted, 2 enrolled. 2018 12 applied, 4 admitted and 2 enrolled. 2016 16 applied, 3 accepted and 2 enrolled. Other ED accepts this year include Harvard, Columbia and lots of other very selective schools. Heck, my kid - who is not in the top 25% of the class with only a 4.0X was admitted to a top 25 SLAC.

Weird to me that people say “no way.” Clearly you know nothing about Wilson.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:More "progressive charter" curricula for MS & HS? Washington Latin's curriculum looks a whole lot like the one my devout Catholic grandfather followed in the 1920s! All that school Latin helped him enter a seminary afterwards, until he decided not to graduate to become a priest. We want our children to study modern languages and current affairs in school. BASIS' STEM heavy curriculum is really weak on English lit. From where I sit, DCPS' MS and HS curriculum isn't the problem - lack of academic rigor is, and in a big way.

Surely you know that students at Latin also study an additional language, and that current events are a major part of the curriculum?

There’s a poster who always pipes in on these threads to talk about how weak Basis is and how old-fashioned Latin is. I’m sure Stuart-Hobson will be fine for you, but why dump on other people’s choices all the time? Where other people send their children doesn’t have anything to do with yours.

I am not a poster who complains about Basis and boosts for Hobson.

Latin doesn't even teach Spanish. Other than Latin instruction, teaching languages doesn't appear to be the school's strong suit. Same with math. Current events are not a major part of the curriculum, at least not according to the admins I talked to when I dropped my 4th grader off recently for a shadow day.