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What's a HS course at basis in 5th grade?  None I know of.[/quote]

Some 5th grade students take Algebra 1 in 5th and this is a high school course and will go on transcript for credit but does not count towards high school GPA. The other middle school high school courses are Algebra 2, Pre-Calculus, AP Calculus, World History 2, Economics, and any other AP courses that some 8th graders choose to take. The math depends on your child so not all students take all of those course before high school. The normal math sequence in middle school at BASIS is Math 8/7, maybe Pre-Calculus (but math 8/7 is equivalent to a Pre-Calculus course),  Algebra 1, and Algebra 2, and Pre-Calculus A or AB. a ful credit of Geometry is given after completing Algebra 1 and 2 as well since it is incorporated.[/quote]

My child took AP Calculus AB in 8th.  Stats on attrition: There were originally 8 kids in different grades in the class.  By high school, there were kind of two kids left (one failed AB so had to take it over)

NB Walls and Wilson at least will make a child (even who has taken Precalc in 8th) take Geometry in 9th.  The second (great) HOS went to bat for his kids at both schools that fall and lost.  Saxon is not accepted.  I personally think completing the entire program covers both Geometry and Trig, but the SATs only go up to Algebra II so you may have to review some before the PSATs and SATs.  Don't know whether knowledge of Geometry is measured.

Economics does not appear on the HS transcript because it is not an AP class.  I would also assume now that they switched the history sequence (it used to be US for 6th, and AP World History in 7th and 8th) that they no longer label it as an AP course and that fewer kids take the World History AP exam because they would have to review their 6th grade history in 8th.

I personally think that taking the AP World History exam in 8th grade (under the old sequence) was a real blessing for my child - he scored higher than what BASIS requires for an A in the class, and had he bombed he either would have gotten a bad grade in 8th which would never be reported (and neither would the AP score) or take the comp over the summer.

Having AP anxiety going into a high school that requires 6 of them (and the subjects are mandatory and include Calculus), or going into another high school knowing that right now, unfortunately, AP courses and scores matter a lot more than they did when I applied to college, a free bite at the apple can either be a confidence builder or a huge wake up call.

Unfortunately, because the high school at BASIS is so much smaller, you have no guarantee that they will offer the other APs you want to take at the right time, or even at all - especially if you are on the 12th grade project route where you take no year long classes.  At least for this year, they allowed kids who were still doing AP Calc to go that route - they just couldn't do something that would prevent them from taking the AP.[/quote]

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