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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We plan to stay at Brent through 4th or 5th, not sure about BASIS or Latin. Forget EH or SH. We are Asian immigrants looking for a MS/HS sequence where our kids won't end up being about the only Asians in 12th grade (at least the only ones not adopted by non-Asians), so probably MoCo.  I'm not concerned about the quality of MS education at either, but am concerned about HS at under-funded and highly experimental charters.  BASIS and Latin are only receiving a little more than half the per student allocation as MoCo schools, which shows in the facilities they can offer.  I'm not knocking these schools, which I've visited, I'm just not confident they will be a good bet for HS for us, IF we can get into MS.  Big IF in a few years.

I've interviewed half a dozen BASIS Arizona kids on the phone for my Ivy (which doesn't have enough alums on the ground in the Southwest to interview all local applicants) in the last few years and they were as dull as paint.  Well-prepped and polite but boring, not competing in national science competitions or, it seemed, thinking much for themselves.  I don't doubt that BASIS is a hundred times better than some the DCPS middle schools though.  [/quote]

BASIS DC Science Bowl team will represent DC in the nationals![/quote]

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