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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not hearing any critique of academics by PP with child who got into an ivy but not HYP . . . and isn't that what most of us at BASIS are after - an excellent education?  Also - my understanding is last year was an extremely tough year for college admittances since colleges went test optional (turning HYP slots into essentially a lottery for all the 4.0 students across the US).[/quote]

Believe what you want, but BASIS' factory approach to education isn't for all the families of top performers. The franchise's obsession with scoring high on APs and 4.0 GPAs doesn't work for all the kids with a decent shot of cracking highly competitive colleges. Worth remembering that the founders, Olga and Michael Block, weren't educators. What constitutes an excellent education is of course highly subjective.

We found an adequate education at BASIS that we had the resources to build on in pursuit of an excellent education. The teachers our children had at Johns Hopkins CTY summer camps (just $3000 a pop for day camp in MoCo) were in a league of their own.  Don't kid yourselves that an extremely tough year for college admissions was what kept most of their top students out of Ivies. [b]Some of these kids would probably have cleared the bar if they'd been encouraged to aim higher learning what they loved all along, and were supported in doing so (rather than being hemmed in at every turn by an overly rigid curriculum).[/b]  This is particularly true where sports, fluency in modern languages, hands-on learning, and research were concerned. The reality is that a 5 on AP Spanish amounts to little in the Ivy League admissions game here in 2022.[/quote]

You again?  Another dumb word-salad post.

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You again, out of arguments?[/quote]

Actually, "[w]hat constitutes an excellent education" is not "highly subjective" at all.

On the one hand, we have your rambling, incoherent thoughts about BASIS that apparently your kid attended years ago before washing out.  On the other hand, we have data that shows that BASIS DC offers an excellent education.

You want arguments?  Here you go:  https://www.usnews.com/education/k12/middle-schools/district-of-columbia.[/quote]

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