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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I really don't understand the appeal of cramming high school into 3 years. What am I missing?[/quote]

AP exams are only given in May/June, ergo BASIS wants its students' AP classes and scores completed by the end of jr year.  That way, as many AP scores as possible go in with college applications. That's been the franchise's system for optimizing admissions success since the 90s.

BASIS is set in its ways. We found out that some hs students in this Metro area take Cambridge Intl AS or A-Level exams in Nov of sr. year (results available by mid Dec) as an AP alternative. The Americans who take Cambridge exams tend to take them for languages, often after a summer of immersion study. I've never heard of a BASIS DC student taking Cambridge exams, but we know a few Walls and JR students who have. We had our kid take Cambridge Spanish and chemistry at a British Intl school, to cut down on the # of APs he took jr. year. Spreading the exams out worked v. well for us in college admissions (he was admitted to several top 10 SLACs).[/quote]

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