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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Basis is a small public charter school with few resources,  they do not matter that much with graduating classes of of 40 to 60

JR is supposedly a crown jewel of DC high schools with a senior class of 500, what happens here is much more consequential for how people view DC education.

AND that view is not very good in part on weak JR is....that so many in boundary kids for JR skip it for much more expensive options tells you what you need to know!
[b]Few families do that in the suburbs.[/b]

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]JR parents have some inflated notion that extracurriculars are the key to college admissions for their kids.  If so, why do such a small percentage of kids go on to the top colleges? Why does 8% to 10% of every class not go to college?

A few kids doing well out of 500 seniors does not indicate that the massive amount of APs and extracurriculars at JR means much .....all it means that a few upper income non minority kids at JR stand out in a low performing school.

[quote=Anonymous]again people talking with no data or clue about reality / just generalizations they have heard.  The Extracurriculars for many high performing seniors are online and available to view if you are interested.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]the truth is that the seniors going to Ivies from Basis DC mostly did clubs at Basis ---- [b]what you seem to miss is that colleges are judging you based on what opportunities you had available[/b] .....so A JR student who does not get involved much despite all of the seemingly endless clubs and sports will be at a big disadvantage

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You’re a jerk, PP. The parent above may well have done her due diligence. But it’s not easy for the uninitiated to see through the BASIS hype. From what I’ve observed at BASIS, the UMC seniors who crack MIT, Ivies etc. come from families that pay and hustle like mad to round out their kids’ high school educations. Everybody at BASIS with a super bright and industrious kids can’t swing it. It’s tempting to pretend that a BASIS education alone is enough. It’s not.[/quote]

Another ignorant response.[/quote][/quote]
Nobody should be buying this for UMC applicants, regardless of the school.

As has been pointed out, the BASIS seniors cracking Ivies haven't been sticking to the mostly lame ECs offered by the school. No way. We know these kids from all our years at BASIS.  Pure fantasy to believe otherwise.  [/quote]

You know nothing and seem to live in a fantasy world of your own making.[/quote]

BS. PP is correct. It's normal for high SES BASIS families to supplement extensively for ECs by high school, even if students aren't aiming high in college admissions.

The high school offers few serious activities because BASIS doesn't have the budget/fundraising, facilities, critical mass of students or policies to support them.

If you believe the situation to be fantasy, you can't have had kids who went through 8th grade at BASIS. Your family never made the choice to stay or leave for high school related to the EC situation. [/quote][/quote][/quote]

I guess let's flip this back on you.

If BASIS is so good, why do so many people leave at High School?  Why is the school still so small?  Why do the vast majority of people in-bounds for JR pick JR, then Walls, then Banneker even...and then a non-consequential to almost non-existent number choose Basis?

Something doesn't compute.[/quote][/quote]

Who do you think attends:

Holton
Stone Ridge
Landon
Bullis
Norwood
Washington Episcopal
Holy Cross
Georgetown Prep
The Heights
Not to mention again GDS, Sidwell, STA, SJC, Gonzaga

If you guessed a ton of people from Montgomery County, many of which are in-bounds for Whitman, Churchill, etc. (because these schools aren't cheap)...you would be correct.[/quote]

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