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[quote=Anonymous]BASIS will let seniors take one or two AP classes if the family pushes. We sent our kid to a month-long residential AP prep program in the summer between junior and senior year. We signed up for two AP tests in May of senior year that BASIS hadn't authorized, at a public school in Fairfax (easily done).  We also signed up for two Cambridge International A-Levels (one in a language, pitched one or two years past AP) at the British International school of DC on the advice of our private college counselor (also easily done and not expensive). Cambridge exams are given in Nov and May and the tests are more sophisticated than AP exams, graded entirely by humans w/out multiple choice. Cambridge is a hot brand internationally, known to US elite colleges. Our kid took a community college language class to prep.

BASIS pushed hard for our kid to apply to colleges Oct-Jan of senior year, because they wanted the bragging rights to his admissions successes, but we didn't cooperate. On the advice of our private college counselor, we had our kid's transcripts and recommendations forwarded to a transcript forwarding service, which sent them on to colleges when we wanted. I'm not going to tell you where our kid was admitted to college, because that would out us, other than to say that our efforts paid off.  If he'd applied to the same colleges in the fall/'winter of senior year, we highly doubt that he would have been admitted to the most competitive institutions, particularly one in the UK. Our gap year application strategy wasn't cheap, but worth it. We looked at BASIS as merely one source of application inputs. Our younger kid is aiming for Walls.[/quote]

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