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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Our DC has had a good experience at Latin.  [/quote]

Good to hear.  Our child has had a really good experience so far in Upper School at Latin; better than middle, which our child enjoyed.  Have you spoken to many parents with their children currently in Upper School, or is your information based on those who chose to leave before trying Upper School?  While the latter may have evaluated carefully, they would not have access to firsthand experience which might surprise you.  Curious, since I think there is an idea about Latin that 'everybody' leaves after 8th grade.  It's simply not true.  Last year the highest ever group of students stayed on from Middle -- about 80% I believe -- and the new students who came in are wonderful.  It's a great freshman class and I hope this year's rising 8th consider carefully staying on.  The teachers simply cannot be beat.
I'm intrigued by BASIS, and given that we gave Latin a go when it was 'untested' we are probably the kind of family that would have given a high expectations school like BASIS a spin.  That being said, the worst courses I had in High School involved teachers 'teaching to the AP'.  Luckily, I only had a few teachers that took that tack.  The rest taught us to think, and we sailed through the APs when we took them.  What is the BASIS take on this?
Thanks.

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[b]But if all this is true, why aren't far more Latin students applying, and being admitted to, blue chip colleges, at least yet?[/b]  I ask because I  interview area high school seniors for my Ivy each fall, a common enough volunteer gig in DC.   Early this year, I asked my alma mater's interview coordinator if I could interview Latin applicants - he said there were none.  My spouse heard the same story about MIT applicants.  Generally, when a kid applies to one Ivy, a or top tech school or military academy, they apply to several, or even most, leading us to suspect that Latin kids aren't applying to 5-star schools for now.  If more MS kids stay, will this change, or will BASIS become DC's primary feeder school for too colleges or what.  Not everybody cares, but some do, so thought I'd mention our experience.
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You're kidding, right? Latin has only HAD one graduating class.

The relevance of your Ivy is doubtful, there are so few good quants in the Ivies. &quot;Pedigree &gt; talent&quot; (in the hard sciences, engineering, etc.) However, last I knew, they understood math at MIT.[/quote]

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