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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] While parents are trying to maneuver the legal channels, rules and regulations to insure BASIS follows FAPE, IDEA to serve students with 504's and IEP's, they are missing a crucial point. This school operates on a completely different premise. Do not waste your time or money or sanity if the school is mistreating you and your child. I mean your kid can be a genius and still fail at BASIS. Everything is hush hush with no transparency. All these years they kept on boasting about their results and how they are providing a world class education. Let's forget about college acceptances. Being number crunchers, I am wondering why they are being so secretive about their SAT/ACT results. We heard that several students scored below 1000 in the SAT from students who were taking the ACT, not offered at the school. Also, you would think that  a senior with a 4.4 GPA with raving recommendations from the school, "4"s and "5"s on 10  AP exams should score fairly high on any standardized test. However [b]it the aforementioned student scores in the lowest 25%, in math, [/b]you can't help but wonder about where the truth lies.[/quote]

How is that possible?  Aren't the AP's graded by outsiders?  (No affiliation with with school, no reason to collude.)[/quote]

Yes, the AP tests are graded by teams of teachers recruited nationally by the College Board.

Off the top of my head, I can imagine that a BASIS student who takes an AP class for a year, and learns that content well (hence a 4 or 5 and high class grade) could perform poorly on the SAT. Especially if that student didnt prepare for it, or is a minority, since that test is notoriously biased. You see the same thing at Banneker -- kids with high GPAs and strong AP exam results, but relatively low SAT scores.

BASIS does report that many of its students at all of its schools score better on the ACT than the SAT. The SAT is given at school because that's what the City of DC pays for all students to take. BASIS did offer the newly released pre-ACT test to its students at school this year, in addition to the PSAT, to help students determine whether they should concentrate on one exam over the other.

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