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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why were the Basis College matriculations so mediocre last year? 
I just watched the commencement video. 
Most "honors" grads going to places like Temple, Penn State, Michigan State. 
Valedictorian to Duke
Salutatorian to NW
Only Ivy admits were Brown (URM), Yale (URM), Yale (kid who had done years of Latin quiz bowl competitions at Yale). 
Less than 5% of the class to top 20 schools.

I know that college isn't everything but why take years of AP classes if you're going to end up at Penn State?
You could make it there on much, much less.  
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BASIS DC has 100% acceptance into 4 year colleges and universities, with an [b]average merit scholarship of $150,000 per student[/b]. You clearly grew up in privilege where mommy or daddy paid for college. My guess is that you are now surrounded by similarly situated friends. Were you to venture outside your bubble you'd meet people who are still paying for college and grad school into their 30s and 40s. Ask those people if they could go back in time and borrow less money what they'd do.

P.S. Please don't come back with some revisionist history garbage about how you grew up on a dirt patch in poor rural America. No one who had to pay for their own college education would have viewed matriculations through such a lens. [/quote]

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