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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When you make things up as you go along, it can be hard to keep your story straight.

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[quote=Anonymous] I've Skype interviewed half a dozen BASIS Tuscon kids in recent years, none admitted, none wait-listed, weak extra curriculars, no national science competition entries, pleasant but boring group cramming for APs night and day.  Buyer beware.
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[quote=Anonymous]Sure, half a dozen BASIS Tuscon kids is hardly a representative sample, but all were in the top 10% (or so they claimed) and none seemed to have much to say. My expectations were clearly too high, after all the DC hype. One question I answer for the school is "Did you enjoy talking to this applicant?" With the BASIS kids, honestly, not much. [/quote]

In another thread two months

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/60/284163.page
[quote=Anonymous]I've Skype interviewed half a dozen BASIS Tuscon (original campus) applicants for my Ivy, which rarely has enough alum volunteers in AZ to interview all that state's applicants in person, since 2010. One witty kid, into physics and astronomy at the famous Univ. of AZ observatory, impressed me and was wait listed (and ultimately rejected). The rest were nothing special, and so were rejected outright.[/quote]

http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/75/284163.page
[quote=Anonymous]Prig or not, I studied on a Pell Grant and really enjoyed talking to the astronomy kid from Tuscon, a FARMS student. He won scholarships to attend summer camps at the Univ. of AZ observatory. I plugged for him. The others seemed programmed to do well on AP exams and not much more. [/quote][/quote]

Tuscon?  [/quote]

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