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[quote=Anonymous][quote]Stanford guy suggested that I add something.... Also graduated from Tucson.

Watch out. Basis doesn't offer a great education for the gifted. The program becomes a chore even for the math gifted eventually, not because the quantitative work is too difficult, but because creativity and eureka moments are seldom celebrated at what is essentially an Asian style cram school.

We weren't encouraged to enter national sci competitions for high schoolers. The thinking was that doing so would have distracted us from our true calling, AP AP and more AP. You guys are up on Basis because you are a couple months into the lower school experience. By high school, if you are still rolling, you will be singing a different tune.

The school would work better as a bona fide gifted program with separate math/science & humanities tracks. Where screening isn't an option for political reasons, Basis should have the decency to make it clear that around 3/4 of families enrolling won't have children with the smarts, let alone the prep, to enjoy the education in the long-run. You guys can deal with that now, or years from now, without changing that reality. It really bothers some of us grads that Basis has grown imperial without having grown into a great school for gifted kids. [/quote]

This is an important point, PP, and something we all need to keep in mind about Basis.

To the other PP who keeps mentioning greatschools.org as a site for information on how good Basis is, you do know that greatschools.org is the yelp of schools, right? Hardly a reliable source of reviews.[/quote]

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