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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Have you seen the latest US News & World Report national rankings?

http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/national-rankings

Here's how they scored the top schools around our area:

TJ comes in #4; Whitman #61 and Wooton #65, George Mason #76 Poolesville #83 James Madison #93 Langley #96

Also interesting is that two BASIS schools came in ranked #2 and #5.[/quote]

How many Intel, Math, Science, Computer Science and National Scholastic Writing and Arts Awards have the two BASIS schools produced (combined)?  I graduated from US News & World Report reading material in middle school.  I'll take NMSF, NMF, and the hard dollar awards as metrics any day over US News & World Report.

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I believe BASIS doesn't enter the Intel competition because they would be viewed to have a conflict of interest, as the chairman of their board, Craig Barrett is former CEO of Intel and still has many ties to Intel.  As for the other national competitions, they do quite well.  BASIS had two of their schools represented as finalists in the National Science Bowl last year, for example.  BASIS DC beat all other VA schools in the statewide Certamen Latin competition last year.  They also won the Library of Congress "Letters About Literature" competition, with several finalists also coming from BASIS - which is also impressive given they are a much smaller school than most of their top-ranked competitors.[/quote]

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