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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]From their posted course sequence it looks like there is an alternate path for 8th grade World History.

Also, I don't think anyone mentioned the senior-year project / capstone at BASIS, something most other schools don't offer.[/quote]

I also looked more carefully at the curriculum, and realized that the grade on the APs is usually a part of the grade for the course where an AP exam is an option.  At my DC private, taking the APs was optional and had nothing to do with your grade - so they are "cramming" for the course, of which the AP is a part.  Maybe Ivy Interviewer missed that critical info.  I don't know whether this is par for the course these days, but it was not in mine.  Olga also said at an open house last year that if you get a 5 on the AP you get an A for the year, no matter what your grade would be based on your other work in the class.  She said that was to lower the possibility of arbitrariness if a teacher and a student were just not getting along and there was a risk that the student's grade might be affected.  I LOVE that.

I would be very curious to know from parents who have kids older than ours what AP's are like these days - when I went to school 25 some years ago the APs were easy in liberal arts - I got a 5 on all the ones I took - Latin, US History, and English.  The classes were much harder.  My spouse, a math and science guy, got the same but took what I consider to be impossible APs - calculus, physics, etc.

I also think the option of leaving half way through 12th grade and doing an internship is an amazing opportunity offered only at BASIS so far as I know, and for the science/computer types it might actually lead to scholarship money and possible summer and permanent employment.  In addition, if the spot is obtained before college apps are due, what a great thing to add to your profile.  Most kids just slack off after the last grades the colleges see pre-admission decisions, so this may not only broaden their life experiences but keep them from wasting their time.  What a great idea! [/quote]

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