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[quote=Anonymous]But there's plenty of attrition between 8th and 9th.

The way BASIS works in high school is that four years of academics are effectively crammed into three. The arrangement doesn't tend to leave students enough time to pursue serious extra-curriculars, which the program really doesn't offer anyway. In Arizona, geography is obviously in BASIS' corner where students apply to elite colleges on the coasts. Not so from DC, where weak ECs are much more of a problem in admissions to the most highly competitive colleges. We left BASIS after 10th after having woken up to the reality that our UMC white kid eldest wasn't on track to find the time to shine in his ECs. He made it to an Ivy, applying from a gap year (strongly discouraged by BASIS admins) but almost certainly wouldn't have from BASIS.

It sounds to us like BASIS leaders, in AZ and DC, are starting to wake-up to the pitfalls of BASIS high school as usual in the DC context. We also left because while BASIS pays a lot of lip service to Ivy admissions, their focus is on helping students win merit aid at second-tier institutions.  We both went to an Ivy (same one) and wanted our kid to have a good shot. Most BASIS parents seemed fine with the set up so good luck to them.

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