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[quote=Anonymous]Come on, six of one, half dozen of the other.  BASIS students would obviously find college applications and visits more manageable if they weren't expected to complete all their AP work by the end of junior year. The sequencing is nonsense - even the most highly competitive colleges don't expect applicants to have completed all their AP work by the end 11th grade.

My kid did all his college visits on YouTube.  If you're aiming high across the board, silly to spend time and money visiting a bunch of colleges admitting in the single digits and teens. The time and money can be better spent.

We had our BASIS student take a couple Cambridge Intl Exams in Nov of senior year (for a language and science) at a British international school rather than many AP exams in May of junior year. We know another BASIS family who made the same arrangement for their senior.

The senior project our student did, related to health care, was supervised in the sense that it was a community college class we paid for. Kid didn't need to the experience of designing his own project or class to learn or grow.

You're allowed to do your own thing at BASIS by the end. You don't have to march in step on every last detail to the finish line.[/quote]

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