Anonymous wrote:Cornell and MIT can never added to the accepted list, as well as more SLACs - this class is really something!

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Anonymous wrote:Intrigued. Right now we have a kid at one of the private schools that sends a lot of kids to college in Canada, Europe, etc. Will keep BASIS on my radar for 5th grade lottery (still several years away).

Which private school is this? Are their other private schools like this?

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Anonymous wrote:PP. that list is helpful. The results are fine but certainly nothing to brag about. A lot of those schools will take just about anybody.

That was the class of 2018.

The "well-known/relatively more selective schools" I've heard of so far (not more are coming out later in March) for this year's graduates include:

Barnard
Cambridge
Oxford
Grinnell
Kenyon
Purdue Engineering
US Naval Academy
Univ of Edinburgh

Interesting that they had at least 2 different kids applying to UK schools (Oxbridge & Edinburgh). Seems sort of unusual for the area. I wonder what the link is.

Kids who know what they want to study and are eager to finish their degree in 3 years, saving $$ over schools in the US?

One student in the class of 2018 is enrolled in Spain. Seems overseas universities are popular among those kids.

My DC is graduating from BASIS this year and seriously considered McGill and U of Toronto but decided not to in the end.

You really can't change fields of study easily at UK schools, whereas a majority of US students change their desired major field during college. The U.S. also has a more fluid labor market, so grads need flexible skills.

Overall, for a kid who will probably work in the US, I prefer a U.S. school. The unemployment rate is also generally about 8% in the Eurozone. It's lower in the UK, although with Brexit, who knows. Aiming for the US labor market is usually a better bet.

Highly impressed with these DC BASIS acceptances just 8 or 9 into the program's existence.

Oh come on. A 3-year degree at top UK university currently runs an UMC American parent (without EU citizenship) around 90k. By comparison, a 4-year degree at a top tier elite private US college now runs the same parent at least 250K. Multiply the savings by two children and you're talking about at least 300K. Which of us in the DC public school system past elementary in a tony neighborhood has 300K laying around?

If you're in the fi aid "donut," with family earnings between around 150 and 250K (too rich too qualify for need-based aid, too poor to pay without borrowing heavily and staying in deep student loan debt into your dotage), you can probably live with pricey American schools being the "better bet." American students can even take Stafford Loans to study at any of two dozen European universities now - the Obama Administration introduced the option and Trump hasn't nixed it.

A BMW or Mercedes is clearly a "better bet" than my Subaru Outback. But I'm not prepared to spend the next couple decades paying off a loan to afford a posh car any more than I'm prepared to do it for overpriced BAs for my children.

I was employed by several international organizations in my 20s and 30s, working alongside with colleagues around my age who'd graduated from Oxford, Cambridge, great universities in London, Scotland, Ireland, Australia, Canada etc. The real difference between them and many of their young American colleagues was they were cruising along student loan-free and we weren't, not by a long shot. We brought similar skills and ambitions to the jobs, and sometimes had even earned the same grad degrees from elite US programs.

I see UK universities as the "better bet" than American liberal arts colleges few of us have heard of because they're offering our children serious merit aid.

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Anonymous wrote:Intrigued. Right now we have a kid at one of the private schools that sends a lot of kids to college in Canada, Europe, etc. Will keep BASIS on my radar for 5th grade lottery (still several years away).

Which private school is this? Are their other private schools like this?

Anonymous wrote:Intrigued. Right now we have a kid at one of the private schools that sends a lot of kids to college in Canada, Europe, etc. Will keep BASIS on my radar for 5th grade lottery (still several years away).

Anonymous wrote:Really impressive and the poster bashing Oxbridge, McGill and UofT is insane. If you're worried, they can come home to do grad school in the US. They will not have trouble getting in.

Anonymous wrote:Really impressive and the poster bashing Oxbridge, McGill and UofT is insane. If you're worried, they can come home to do grad school in the US. They will not have trouble getting in.

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BASIS will end its 7th year in DC this spring. The students graduating this year began as 6th graders the year it opened.

They are on the whole a bright and hard-working cohort.

Even more impressive, since none of these kids had the full BASIS treatment from 5th grade.