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The reality is that DCI has been on a large upward trajectory in getting better.

With the expansion classes coming up there is going to be 0 chance of getting into Spanish.  French is also going to decrease drastically also.

I also predict the Chinese number to decrease which you can see it trend has significantly[b] because the school is getting more buy in from feeder families.[/b][/quote]
I would put another spin on this - 
as it becomes harder to get into BASIS, more families are staying with DCI as they do not have other options.
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Yea no.  We have a high performing kid and looked at Basis.  After tour, took it off the list and was not even a consideration at all.  Not interested in the depressing building and lack of sports and extracurriculars.  Also not interested in the sole focus of cramming a ton of AP courses to save a year.

We wanted a more well rounded experience for our kid with academics, great facilities, and lots options of sports and extracurriculars.  We also like the IB curriculum and especially the IB diploma as opposed to a bunch of AP courses.  We also like the heavy emphasis on writing and critical thinking and I’m speaking as a parent in a STEM field.

Lastly, we are lucky in that we have lots of options - move WOTP, pay for private, move to the burbs, etc..   and are choosing to go to DCI and try it out.  We are far from the only family like this at our school.

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I agree with the first PP. More feeder families may have been willing to give DCI a try when it was new, but it’s had enough time to establish itself as a school at this point. It’s incredibly underwhelming. No thanks. We had a chance to send our high-performing kid elsewhere and we took it. About 12 other kids from our feeder left for Basis and a few left for Latin. That should leave spots open for non-feeder kids to enter DCI in 6th, depending on the track.[/quote]

You are wrong.  More feeder families are tracking to DCI now than ever before.  It’s becoming increasingly harder to get in from a non-feeder no matter what track. The trend is obvious. Data doesn’t lie.
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Is the overall trend you cite driven by the quality of education at DCI, or because those families don’t have any other options (like an earlier poster mentioned)? Because approximately 30% of rising 5th graders left our feeder and opted not to go to DCI. That is a much higher number than I would’ve expected based on conversations the parents were having as recently as last year. [/quote]

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