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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But ultimately according to pp, BASIS DC needs to up its game above and beyond that of BASIS Arizona in order to achieve the same results because the DC Metro area is far more competitive than Arizona.  So it will be interesting to see whether BASIS DC can stand out among the other schools in DC (public and private) in a few years.  If not, does that mean that BASIS, despite having the reputation of being for more rigorous, is in reality no better than any other school?  Is using the elite school admissions even a fair barometer or is there too much emphasis on this one aspect and not enough emphasis on other things such as the readiness of the students for college, merit-based scholarships, etc. etc.  Perhaps we latch on to elite schools because it is one of the more tangible things we can easily measure whereas looking at how students perform during and after college would be difficult to gauge and would require quite a bit of time.[/quote]

I'm a BASIS parent who has posted above.

We're not hoping to get our kids into an Ivy and that isn't our yardstick. We are at BASIS because it provides a solid, college prepatory curriculum which is benchmarked externally (the AP tests).

The classes aren't any harder than what you could do at Walls or Wilson (AP is AP), except you start them earlier (8th or 9th grade) and students wind up taking a lot AP classes because that's what is offered (most students are done with AP by end of junior year and spend senior year doing post-AP seminars, senior projects and/or internships)

The one and only thing that makes it more "rigorous" than other DC schools is all students are REQUIRED to take 6 AP exams to graduate, including being required to do them in math, science and English. You can't avoid taking those classes in your 'weaker' subjects (if you have them). And your AP exam scores, pass or fail, are heavily factored into your GPA.

At Walls or Banneker if you enroll in an AP, you must sit for the exam, but the exam grade doesn't count for anything in high school. [/quote]

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