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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Every BASIS parent event I attended included an intense pep talk on how their college admissions are "The best in DC!"

Some admin invariably would always reel off a list of high powered colleges recent grads were admitted to. Yea, MIT, HARVARD, YALE. They did this even if the meeting was to talk about fundraising or an another unrelated subject.  The drill got embarrassing over the years.

The further we get from BASIS, the better I understand why families of some of the highest achieving middle school students leave for programs where school leaders aren't as obsessed with MIT, Harvard, Yale. I point this out as an MIT grad.[/quote]

I'm at a loss to understand what you are trying to say. Are you suggesting that schools should not work to get their graduates admitted to Ivy League schools? You obviously have never attended an elite prep school because that's what they are; Ivy factories. Do you think the school should not tout its accomplishments wherever possible? Do you not understand the correlation between funding (fundraising pitch) and academic success? Again, you apparently haven't seen an elite prep school at work.

BASIS describes itself as a college preparatory school that is designed to get kids into 4 year colleges with as much money as possible. That's sentence one at every info session and all over the marketing materials. Why is their focus on college admissions a shock to you?

So you really expect us to believe that you departed BASIS because of repetitive boasting about Ivy admissions? That makes no sense.

P.S. It's odd that you condemn a school for boasting about Ivy admissions while touting (without context or reason) your MIT degree. In my experience people who do that are pretty high on the d-bag scale. Or do you think it is more relevant that you went to MIT 30 years ago than it is that a school got kids admitted last year?[/quote]

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