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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]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.[/b]

PP--you are confusing matriculate with acceptances. These are schools that these wonderful students are attending. You have no idea what schools they were admitted to nor do you know the reasons why they made the choices they did. For example, my niece, got 3 wrong on the SAT, was admitted to MIT but learned that MIT only provides need-based scholarships. And, they do NOT consider you as having need if your household income exceeds $160k. It was a tough pill to swallow since her household could not afford the roughly $70k per year to send her to MIT. She then took a full ride at a wonderful state school that certain of you would deem mediocre.

The larger point here is why can't people support and applaud these kids for working hard and pursuing higher education rather than repeatedly and ridiculously tearing down their school to no avail or sane reason?? Just be happy that this DC Public school is preparing these kids for a bright, productive future.

Most importantly, if you don't like BASIS, don't go. All of the complaining, snarky comments, incorrect theories and assertions do not stop scores of parents from enrolling their kids each year. You are just wasting your time. Maybe you can focus on improving the school your kid attends. Or, maybe take up needlecraft. [b] Signed, frustrated and fed-up.[/b][/quote]

Silly to be frustrated and fed up with anything posted on DCUM. Come on, almost any critical comment about BASIS is deemed snarky, incorrect etc. even when it comes from a parent whose child/children attended the school for years. It's a 2-way street.

As for your niece whose family couldn't afford to send her to MIT.  Just not the case. Families can freely borrow to cover college costs in this country. What you're really saying is that the family didn't value an MIT education enough to borrow heavily to cover costs via a combo of private and federally subsidized student loans. That's a reasonable position, but something different than a student being unable to attend.

What I don't care for is how BASIS posters like to claim that kids got into top colleges [i]but [/i]couldn't matriculate.attend as cover for some for some of the program's glaring shortcomings. Few HS ECs aren't first-rate at BASIS DC, and the curriculum is too narrow to support achievement across the board. What's worse, many of the best teachers leave in search of better pay and treatment (w/the trend accelerating). This is old territory for DCUM.[/quote]

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