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[quote=Anonymous][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]

Something doesn't compute because you your assumptions are wrong.

1) Not that many kids leave Basis for a different high school.  Most of the top those go to Walls or private, which are normal options.  The other ones aren't doing as well academically and wash out to other schools.  Almost no kids leave after 9th grade.

2) Basis has the maximum number of students for the building.  As students leave, Basis doesn't socially promote or backfill.  That is why the upper grades are smaller than, say, 5th grade. No other school in DC does that.  Latin 2nd Street has maybe 80 more students than Basis overall but they socially promote, backfill, and are much less rigorous.  So fewer kids leave from there.  But still they have a large chunk of 8th graders depart every year for Walls, Banneker, Friendship, and KIPP.

3) There are plenty of kids from the J-R district at Basis.  The schools that later feed to J-R send many kids to Basis in 5th grade.[/quote]

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