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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BASIS just doesn't compare favorably to the best suburban high schools in this Metro area. This is the stuff of pure fantasy. I know this because I sent my kid to BASIS and used to work in a couple of the highest-performing high schools in this Metro area.

Have you seen the engineering labs in some of the Fairfax high schools? The marine biology research lab at TJ?  The school musicals supported by full orchestras in NoVa and MoCo?  The high schools teaching Higher Level International Bacclaureate classes (2 years past the AP level) in 8 or 10 languages?

BASIS DC does offer competitive advanced math, because advanced math is cheap to teach.  That's about it where world-class offerings at BASIS DC go.[/quote]

Nice try.  Those are much bigger schools.  M-B has 900 in the senior class; Basis DC has 50.

[b]In fact, Basis DC has better college admissions per capita than most suburban DMV schools including M-B, Whitman, etc.[/b]

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BASIS DC gets fantastic college admissions results for roughly one-third of its seniors. The rest of the kids endure a hard slog from a young age without an incredible payoff at the finish line. Limited extra-curriculars, lack of hands-on learning opportunities, a narrow focus on science and math acceleration and the push to pass at least 6 AP exams by spring of junior year can make things tough for excellent students for whom quantitative work doesn't come easily. This is particularly true where BASIS families aren't in a good position to support outside activities/enrichment through the years. Excellent students who don't excel at STEM tend to get better admissions results from Walls, Banneker and JR.

College admissions at BASIS just isn't the universally rosy picture you're painting. I used to work at a DC parochial school with a senior class of less than 50 (not difficult to guess which) where college admissions "per capita" were more impressive across the board.  [/quote]

No one thinks that college admissions is universally rosy, whatever that means.

[/quote]  The poster above certainly does. He'll be trotting out USNWR high school rankings shortly as per usual. [/quote]

You clearly don’t understand college admissions or USNWR rankings.[/quote]

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