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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are unhappy in your current ES and don't have a path to MS/HS, your strategy should assume that you won't get into Basis/Latins and have a plan in place to move schools in 5th or 6th grade. Then if you get in to any of these schools (and feel it would be a good fit for your child), then great, the lottery gods have blessed you. But you are foolish to hinge your plans on either Basis or the Latins given the slim odds of getting into these schools.[/quote]

It's definitely not a guarantee, but it's not really "slim odds" either. Here's what it looked like last year for 5th:

BASIS: (150 matches + 75 waitlist offers)/338 applicants = 66% offered

Latin Cooper: (73 matches + 51 waitlist offers)/295 applicants = 42% offered

Latin: (75 matches + 11 waitlist offers)/418 applicants = 20% offered

For applicants without sibling preference it's 56%, 36%, and 12% respectively, i.e., if you applied to BASIS and Latins with no sibling preference last year, you had better than 50/50 odds of eventually getting a spot somewhere.[/quote]

Nothing about these odds convinces me not to have a solid plan B in place. [/quote]

Oh, absolutely. You still need a plan B. But I think it's misleading to say the odds are slim when you have a better than 1 in 2 chance of landing at BASIS and 1 in 3 at Latin Cooper.[/quote]

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