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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The answer is yes if they live in-bounds for both Deal and JR because they know that's always a backup if it isn't working out.

Basis has a larger issue for HS in that it is so small.  It doesn't offer the "high school experience" so to speak...so you see attrition to Walls and elsewhere including private.

Perhaps it's getting better on that front.[/quote]
It is getting better because it is harder to get into Walls.

When it used to be a test - BASIS students were all in play for being selected for the interview.
Now that the test is removed, not everyone from BASIS who wants to move makes the cut.  [/quote]

BASIS is getting better? Proof of this? The HoS does seem better but that's about it.

BASIS DC is in terrible debt and it shows in the way the campus runs. BASIS' high school isn't getting bigger either if that's what you're claiming.  [/quote]

Look at the BASIS college results so far -- the 7 kids who have declared their schools are: 3 at U Penn, 1 at Harvard, 1 Dartmouth, 1 GW, 1 Wesleyan.  5/7 at Ivies is truly impressive.

We are there and I do think it's getting better every year. Better retention, and they adapt to feedback (added more writing and typing skills, reduced the proportion that the comps count to relieve stress, etc ) [/quote]

Not big improvements. In our experience, for every student getting into an Ivy from BASIS, there are 8 or 10 who aren't happy or all that accomplished. The way BASIS essentially crams four years of high school into three doesn't work for many students.  The kids don't necessarily have time for serious ECs. Most kids with access to J-R would be better off there with a larger selection of APs, far better ECs and facilities, a more flexible and less repetitive curriculum, a happier experience and more going on to top colleges by the numbers (but not as a %).  [/quote]

Math is not your strength, eh?
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Huh? PP above is right about J-R. There are strong, super experienced advanced math teachers there. BASIS mostly gets young ones who leave after a few years for better pay, training and working conditions in DCPS or the burbs. [/quote]

I read PP as noting that if there are already multiple (7? 8?) ivy admits at BASIS, it is not numerically possible for there to be 8-10 other disappointed/unaccomplished kids since the senior class is only about 50 kids . . . [/quote]

'(8-10 unaccomplished kid per ivy admit, according to PP :)[/quote]

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