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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]DCI is taking around 25% of 6th grade applicants for French, 30% for Chinese and 0% for Spanish.

Meanwhile, BASIS takes around half of applicants for 5th grade. If you strike out at BASIS, or don't like BASIS and don't try, your odds of cracking DCI during the next lottery cycle simply aren't good.[/quote]

Yes odds are lower but better than nothing.

I[b]f you get in Basis, take it and then do lottery for 6th.  You don’t win if you don’t play.[/b]

OMG, don't do this unless your kid really wants to go to BASIS and knows what they are getting themselves into. And I say this as the parent of a happy BASIS student. When it's a bad fit, it's miserable. Save the spot for someone who will stay.

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In our experience, BASIS isn't miserable for 5th graders. Very few of the kids mind 5th grade. Where it becomes miserable for some is 6th grade, and for even more in 7th.  And even some of the "good fit" kids who really want to go (good at math, diligent, consistently prepared to work hard) wind up disliking or hating the program. No family has any sort of obligation to "save the spot" for somebody who will stay. Who knows who will stay. I really thought that my v. industrious and focused eldest would. No.  [/quote]

Seriously, no one owes Basis anything.  Do what is best for your child.  Use 5th as a springboard at Basis if you want to try it out and then move on to better options if needed.

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Ok. I guess that will keep happening.

But I have known a handful of kids who I'm 100 percent sure should have been happy, excellent BASIS students (bc we are there, I have one, and know the kids who also actually appreciate being taught something real, held to high standards, and for whom it's not an overwhelming amount of work) who were shut out of the lottery, and I see kids who are struggling and will not last, and it's painful. When a very high aptitude kids get a bad lottery score and live EOTP, the options are grim.[/quote]

Yeah I have a bright EOTP kid who was shut out of BASIS and know other kids in the same position. And then there are the kids who did get in and probably aren’t good fits but their parents see no other good options. I don’t begrudge them sending their kid to BASIS and seeing how it goes. We would have done the same. Even though we thought our kid could handle it, we weren’t sold on it as a great fit overall bc of the ECs and other issues discussed above. I don’t have any problem with a parent taking the seat and reevaluating after a year. Those are the cards we have all been dealt. [/quote]

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