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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're exaggerating. J-R had students admitted to all 8 Ivies this past spring, mostly high SES white students.

Latin got two into Ivies.  BASIS got none (but one into Cal Tech).  DCI got one into Yale, an URM.[/quote]

That is misleading too since you are not factoring in class size.

Just because some random person at a school--especially a large one such as J-R--gets into an Ivy doesn't mean that the school offers a good education and your kid will get into an Ivy.

For example, the senior class last year at J-R was more than 12 times bigger than BASIS (BASIS only had 42 in the senior class).  And BASIS has had plenty of Ivy admits in previous years.  Given the wealth and education levels in NW and the fact that J-R is an boundary-restricted school, 8 Ivies (assuming that is accurate) in a class of over 500 kids is not particularly impressive in this area.

A more useful measure is what percentage of the class gets into a top college.

Over 2/3 of the last BASIS senior class is going to a Top 50 college.  That certainly beats J-R, Latin, and DC.  In fact, some graduates of those schools don't even attend college at all. 
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