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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Caltech isn't more selective than HYP.  They admit a little less than 4%; YHP, too.  Caltech is impressive but admissions this year weren't overall.  This year's class was no smaller than previous classes with multiple Ivy League admins.  You know this, I do, other parents, too, admins know it. Yet there's forum for discussing the issues within the BASIS community, no analysis of what went wrong, at least none that parents are privy to, no plan of action to improve matters.  [/quote]

OK, YPSMBCP.

Harvard: 3.19%
Columbia: 3.73%
Caltech: 3.92%
Stanford: 3.95%
MIT: 3.96%
Princeton: 4.38%
Yale: 4.6%
Brown: 5.03%
Chicago: 5.4%
Penn: 5.87%

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NP. Admit rates this close are basically meaningless for any number of reasons (way fewer kids want to go to Caltech, so less competition at the top end; that said, way fewer random applicants so much harder competition all the way through the stack), but I think we can all agree (except that one guy) that a Caltech admit is just as impressive as an Ivy admit. Maybe just under HYP, but maybe not. Certainly over DBC in my book. However, overall BASIS admissions were less impressive this year than in years past. That said, it's one year, whether it's a total blip or a trend remains to be seen and, in the overall context of DC public schools, obviously BASIS' admissions are incredibly impressive![/quote]

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