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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If there are any parents of BASIS alumni here, could you provide information on whether kids felt prepared for top 50 schools? I’m not looking for any info specific to a student or a school, just general impressions of whether they felt BASIS gave them the academic skills they need for college and whether it was worthwhile. Sometimes kids get into schools beyond what they are prepared for, and I hope that is not the case for BASIS grads.[/quote]

My kid graduated from BASIS and felt and is well prepared for college based on first semester grades (attends a so-called top 20 college with an acceptance rate of 15% of lower). Find classes engaging, is getting good grades (even in writing heavy classes - our worry).  DC said, with some surprise, that many of their classmates struggle with time management more than they do, and that some of what has been taught (so far) has been review. We never hired tutors or sent them to an academic summer camp or any other kind of formal supplementation. Our kid does have two middle class (<150 HHI) parents who completed college.

There are kids in DC’s graduating class that were not as strong students - e.g. ~1100 SATs. They successfully completed the program and worked hard. Most are from less advantaged backgrounds than my kid, first in their family to go to college and working class but not FARMS-qualified. These kids are attending lower-ranked colleges - some because that is where they were accepted and others because that’s what they could afford. DC has not heard of any them dropping out, although they’ve not kept up with all of them. [/quote]

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