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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]21:17 / 21:31And again, as a reminder, the Basis grad who posted here got into a best-of-breed group at Stanford.  There is something to be said for that- he probably would have been far less prepared and far less likely to have had that opportunity had he gone through the regular public school system.[/quote]

So all's well that ends well because the guy was admitted to Stanford?  I was disabused of the notion that attending a blue chip college at any cost pays off long ago, when a sibling died of a drug overdose at any Ivy.  Moreover, I have a spouse who barely speaks to his father a quarter-century after graduating from MIT because his immigrant dad subjected him to extreme academic pressure throughout his childhood.  And I haven't forgotten how two Brown classmates took their own lives on campus (class of '90 for those needing to verify).  My Ivy PhD program was largely populated by happy seeming non-Ivy grads.  If the Stanford Basis Tuscon guy feels that he would've been better off elsewhere in secondary school, his prerogative.  In MoCo, the "regular public school system" includes full-time programs for highly gifted 4th and 5th graders and middle schoolers where, as I understand it, creativity is not in short supply.  Those are the sort of enrichment programs I'd like to see emerge in DC, whatever happens at Basis.

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