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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] [b]What can Basis do to change the admissions to elite colleges?  Serious question. [/b]

I mean, every high school in America is facing declining Ivy odds.  The DC privates (I have a kid at one of them) are also 100% facing this decline.  Kids that make it in are either hooked (URM, legacy, VIP, athlete) or they go ON THEIR OWN and do something spectacular outside of school (a talent, research, national competition winner, etc). 
It's no different for kids at Sidwell or NCS--grades, test scores, etc are no longer enough. This isn't a problem that any school can solve.

What is the problem is if parents still live under the paradigm that an Ivy spot can be had on grades, test scores and rigorous curriculum alone and are choosing a high school based on this.  You choose  high school (whether it is Sidwell, Basis, etc) because of what the school teaches your kid and their experience at the school.  In 2023 you will always be disappointed if you think that a high school can get you a leg-up for an elite college admission. [/quote]

[b]They can modify it so that students aren’t required to cram 4 years of HS into 3 years so that students actually have time to do extracurriculars on their own outside of school.[/b][/quote]

Huh?  You don't think the Ivy bound kids at Montgomery Blair and Sidwell aren't working their butts off too?
 
I have a kid in high school at NCS and she always gets 3-4 hours of homework per night.  The Thomas Jefferson kids are easily doing this much on route to their 15+ APs. 
[b]The kids who make it into the Ivies from any of these other schools are working just as hard (if not harder) than the Basis kids.  There are kids in each cohort that can to this academic work and balance a crazy amount of stuff outside of school. 
My NCS daughter has a small handful of girls in her class who could run a small country outside of school.  They are super, super smart, organized and efficient.  They don't sleep.  They are the ones at the top of the class and they're the ones
getting the tiny handful of unhooked Ivy spots. [/b]

What is no longer happening is Ivy admissions for those kids who just do the classwork and get the As.  You need to be able to balance and excel at the something else. [/quote]

I didn’t say they couldn’t, I said the students shouldn’t be [b] required [/b]. Bravo to your kids that can complete all of their homework in an hour. It’s taking my 6th grader about an hour (or more when they get extra math packets) to complete homework so I’d only expect it to get more intense. [/quote]

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