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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You’re a jerk, PP. The parent above may well have done her due diligence. But it’s not easy for the uninitiated to see through the BASIS hype. From what I’ve observed at BASIS, the UMC seniors who crack MIT, Ivies etc. come from families that pay and hustle like mad to round out their kids’ high school educations. Everybody at BASIS with a super bright and industrious kids can’t swing it. It’s tempting to pretend that a BASIS education alone is enough. It’s not.[/quote]

It is an unfortunate fact that it takes a lot of parental involvement for kids to get into elite colleges no matter where you go to high school. There was an era in which taking the most advanced classes your school offered and doing well on the SAT was sufficient, and that is long over. [/quote]

Amen. Do you think families just drop their kids off at Sidwell or GDS as freshman and those schools are so good that the top 30ish percent of the class ends up at a T20 national university? You think JR alone creates Ivy admits? You've obviously not been through this process yet.

And just to throw some additional water on your hypothesis, one of the BASIS '25 Ivy admits is a Questbridge Scholar. This is a competitive program where highly selective schools match with low income students and award them a full tuition scholarship. BASIS education was enough for them. [/quote]

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