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[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]

You missed the point. Which, in light of your Ivy privilege, does not surprise. Someone asked about matriculations. Someone like you who doesn't understand finances completely ignored that financial considerations are a major hurdle and part of the decision matrix. To which you replied that...kids should just get Pell grants to go to college. Apparently your ivy degree didn't include "math". Average Pell Grant amount last year was a bit over $4000. Do you want me to do the math for you? Maybe you and another one of your Ivy buddies can get together and work it out amongst yourselves.

The fact that you think it a "knee jerk reaction" that kids might choose college based on scholarships and future financial burden instead of cache is a clear illustration of the point I was making about lack of understanding of how or why kids choose schools.

But my guess is that your apparent overconfidence in your pedigree makes you impervious to self -reflection.   [/quote]

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