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[quote=Anonymous]Yes, BASIS is more in the league of Nysmith, TJ, at least that is its goal or plan.

It's so competitive to get into TJ. so many parents would send kids to BASIS. Nesmith doesn't have high school part. It used to be hard to get in - requiring an IQ test and score 130 or above. But lately, they have lowered their required IQ score to just one standard deviation above the average (I know it is accepting kids with IQ 114). This is a far cry from what Nysmith used to hold itself to be.

Nysmith's tuition is at least $10K more than BASIS and once you are in BASIS, you can go all the way to HS. Therefore many parents with kids who didn't get into TJ, or with younger kids and want the academic rigors and care less about arts, literature or leadership/community service/character education/sports, etc. would send kids to BASIS.

However, because it is relatively new to our area (NOVA), and some parents didn't know that BASIS emphasizes so much on the academic rigors and the students who thrive there are usually academic high achievers, they inadvertently enrolled their kids there to whom the school may not be ideal or best suitable. These students may have struggled previously in academic performance, or have been good students in public or private schools but not in the level of Nysmith's. These kids can't keep up or are not used to putting much time into studying like a typical Nysmith student would or has to.  These students would leave sooner or later. BASIS would not try to keep them either.

BASIS gives a cash reward to teachers for each student who gets 5 for an AP test.

In a nutshell, if your kid is academically endowed, loves to learn, has a high IQ, wants to get into TJ or gets a similar education as TJ or Nysmith, doesn't care much about arts and community service/leadership/policy making/politics/poems/sports.... but very much into math, science, engineering and technology, BASIS could be a good fit. [/quote]

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