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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Disagree.  You overestimate the popularity of the Basis middle school.  Most CH families with 4th graders who enter the 5th grade lottery list both Latins ahead of Basis.  The Basis waitlist also moves 60+ spots every summer; this means that there are 60+ families who listed Basis on their lottery bingo card and then after matching declined the space.  You also underestimate the extent to which some core CH families moved into their current home in part due to the IB elementary school.  They are not likely to give that up in early elementary to commute to Basis simply to lock in the middle school.  Lastly, people will disagree here, SH/EH have some buy-in now where not everyone is likely to know precisely how they feel about that option until they take a harder look at it in the late elementary years.  Shaw is its own different question mark with rights to Francis Stevens and Euclid.[/quote]

Popularity is not really the point here.  And neither is the wait list.

Unlike Latin, BASIS offers a rigorous curriculum, does tons of testing, and doesn't socially promote.  It is definitely more suited to more academically motivated kids--and those kids are going to be scattered around DC.  True, it does get a lot of kids from the Hill but the Hill also has a lot of academically motivated kids.

However, plenty of people list BASIS in the lottery, especially people that don't have good in-bounds options, because all they have to do is check a box.  Then, if they get in, they realize that the school isn't a good fit for their kid and go elsewhere.  Other parents decide on BASIS because they don't have a good in-bounds option and, if that is their sole reason for sending their kid, are often disappointed.

Saying Latin is more popular than BASIS is like saying a Billie Eilish concert is more popular than a hackathon.  A concert is easy and fun; a hackathon is tough and challenging.  Sure, a concert is a more popular but a hackathon is more valuable.

The fact is that there is plenty of demand for an elementary school like BASIS but BASIS will never be truly "popular" because it is hard and challenging.[/quote]

Right, Latin's a walk in the park through and through, explaining why our neighbor's kid was admitted to Princeton from Latin two years ago. That same spring, zero BASIS students were admitted to Ivies.

You're painting with much too broad a brush, PP.

Our BASIS student was bored in humanities and language classes in middle school. We didn't stay for high school.  Don't buy the hype about high octane BASIS academics.  It's not a GT program. [/quote]

NP Here. I'm a BASIS parent with two DCs in high school. I am FAR from a BASIS booster, but two things you can't really quibble with are the rigor of its curriculum and student outcomes. It's not a GT program because it's an open enrollment/lottery school. But the school asks a lot of every student, regardless of that student's strengths. Is it a bit of a sink or swim environment? Yes. But I would put high achieving BASIS students up against the best public and private school students in the area. And you're simply wrong that zero students were admitted to Ivies two years ago. In 2022 BASIS DC had Yale, Harvard, Brown, Columbia, Penn, and Cornell admits in addition to many Ivy+ and selective SLAC admits. Unlike you, I have actual receipts. If you control for the fact that BASIS is not an application school and the SES of the student student population (contrary to popular belief, the school is not comprised completely of wealthy Hill families), its outcomes are extraordinary. Is BASIS one size fits all? Of course not. Does it provide an excellent option for many DC families? Yes. The same can be said of many other local schools, public and private. [/quote]

I have those 2022 receipts as well. The list you're talking about is the acceptance list. The final matriculation list that year was this:

Barnard College

Bangor University (UK)

Beloit College

Brown University (*)

Clemson University

College of William & Mary (*)

Drexel University (*)

Duke University

Fordham University

George Mason University

Georgia Institute of Technology

Georgia State University

Haverford College

Howard University

Indiana University

Macalester College

Mary Baldwin University

Michigan State University (*)

Morehouse College

Northwestern University

Oberlin College

Pennsylvania State University (*)

Purdue University (*)

Radford University

Sarah Lawrence College

St. John's College

Syracuse University

Temple University (*)

University of Chicago

University of the District of Columbia

University of Maryland, College Park

University of Massachusetts, Amherst

University of North Carolina, Wilmington

University of Vermont (*)

University of Virginia

Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (*)

Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Xavier University of Louisiana

Yale University (*)

(*) indicates that more than one student will attend this college.
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Looks good to me.

Plus, not everyone wants to go to or can afford an Ivy.

For example, a full ride to Duke beats paying for Cornell.[/quote]

+1.  Great results given how small the class was.[/quote]

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