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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

I'm not the person you're responding to, but I'm here to recommend that you dial back your holier than thou rant. Plenty of us went to college on boatloads of fi aid. I attended an Ivy on a Pell Grant, graduating in the early 90s, when the debt burden for Ivy grads from low-income backgrounds was much higher than it is now.

Something went a bit wrong at BASIS DC in admissions to the very most competitive colleges this past spring. Plenty of chatter in the school community about it.

Who knows if the dip was a blip, or will develop into a pattern. I'm guessing the later.  The issues should be discussed, analyzed and addressed, vs. whitewashed with the sort of knee-jerk cheerleading you bring to the conversation. [/quote]

Not really.

College admissions for the BASIS class of 2022 was one of the strongest ever.  For example, the BASIS network has some of the most highly nationally ranked high schools in the country and BASIS DC was the only one where kids were accepted to every single Ivy League college.[/quote]

The lack of MIT admissions was a loss, a bunch of kids applied.  Where are you getting the every single Ivy League school data?  Grapevine?[/quote]

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