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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]+1.  More would leave from BASIS for Walls if they could.  Walls has better facilities, a more stable teaching force, more AP classes, much stronger ECs, dual enrollment option with GW to take college classes, four years of learning in four years of HS etc.  Why wouldn't most who could leave want to?[/quote]

Most Basis students accepted at Walls turn it down.

Walls has a much bigger high school but facilities are crappy.  For example, they don't have gym, cafeteria, stage, studio space, or any sport fields.  I guess GW isn't so generous with sharing their facilities.

Teaching at Walls doesn't seem that great.  Bad teachers refuse to leave and they take months to replace teachers that depart.   Stability isn't so great when you can't get rid of poor teachers and bring new teachers in rapidly.

More AP classes?  Not per capita; Basis offers way more AP classes per student.  Walls doesn't even offer AP bio every year, which is a pretty basic AP.

Walls is bigger and thus obviously offers more extracurriculars.  But so what?  Basis kids have plenty of options, both in school and out.

Basis can do the college dual enrollment option as well but since the Basis curriculum is already so rigorous most don't bother.  It doesn't sound like most Walls students take advantage of dual enrollment program at GW, and most of those who take classes at GW are stuck with bad ones that GW students don't want.

Basis students are so advanced, they finish high school requirements by junior year and can do capstones their senior year.  Sounds like a good thing.

A lot of students at Basis don't go to Walls because they don't want to be stuck repeating material that they already learned at Basis in middle school.

Since Walls scrapped the entrance exam, quality of the students has decreased.  Grade inflation is so rampant that almost everyone is graduating with the highest honors, leaving students less prepared for college.  Unfortunately, the school has really gone downhill in the last few years.  
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Don't buy this hyperbolic BS.  As far as we can tell in 8th grade, roughly 3/4 of those admitted to Walls go.  If BASIS students were so advanced, they'd be admitted to Ivies, Stanford, MIT.  None were this year.  The average AP language grade at BASIS isn't a 5.  Agree that Walls is going downhill.  BASIS is also going downhill. [/quote]

I can see many scenarios in which I consider my child (who is doing quite well in Basis HS) to have succeeded without going to an Ivy, Stanford, or MIT. [/quote]

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