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Because they are pretty much all making guinea pigs of their kids - taking a chance on something new and hoping it works out. The early Latin parents were similar (as were the early YY parents).

None of these parents are going to know if it "worked out" until kids are off to college.  Latin's shallow college admission track record has been more lackluster than anticipated. I predict that the same will be true of BASIS DC. [/quote]

[quote]And finally, except if you are talking about places like Princeton, many students who might get into those types of big name schools won't go because their decisions are going to be based on financial aid packages and/or merit scholarships.  The less debt you graduate with, the better, even if you are yet again going to be a big fish in a small pond.  Makes sense to me.[quote]

[quote]Wonderful, family bliss c/o BASIS.  Fancy that.

[b]Not buying it, although I'm hardly a stranger to the concept of the upper middle-class donut on the affording college front.  If a student can get into Princeton, Columbia, Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Cal Tech or MIT, families almost always find a way to make the assessed family contribution. The claim that "my kid could easily have gone to Princeton, but we couldn't afford it" has a pathetic ring. [/b] Go on, launch a big fish to a small pond.  Borrowing to make a sound investment (like taking on a manageable mortgage) is what makes sense to me.

First-rate DC students deserve a better-rounded public school education, and far better school-furnished college advising and prospects, than BASIS seems interested in providing.  Too bad because the academics are laudable.

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I'm sorry, but a) happy teenagers are hard to come by and b) you have no clue what our financial status is or how many kids we have (which is probably more relevant).  When it means either the family or the children going into real debt, many of us who either had or watched those with loans to pay off from Princeton that determined future career choices, choices about further education, those who then went to medical school, or law school, and incurred more debt, may no longer think that Princeton is all that.  Or a sound investment vs having one parent living in Va and choosing VA Tech over MIT.

Especially when we are now surrounded by successful people who did not go to Princeton.  I think a free ride to UNC Chapel Hill on a prestigious scholarship might be a wiser decision, which one of my family friends made relatively recently, and is now equally successful as her peers who went to Princeton - and she did it to [b]save her family the financial stress, not because her family absolutely could not have afforded it.  Did she get into Princeton?  I know she got into Harvard............[/b]  Wise beyond her years.....

[/b]There are several studies that show that going to a big name college pays off the most for kids who are coming from really poor backgrounds. [b] And fortunately, at least at the HYPs (that absolutly do not offer merit scholarships), they do offer those kids now almost exactly what they need to make it work - much better than what they offered when I was .... at Princeton.  When it was still relatively affordable, just like NCS.....

[/b]Now if you intend to go straight to Goldman Sachs, by all means go to Princeton.  It will prove to be a very sound investment,[b][/quote]

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