children OF major donors (aka Jared Kushner)

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Anonymous wrote:I find this implausible, and I am not a BASIS hater or critic.

How many kids among those 5 acceptances? I know of 1 Ivy and 1 MIT.

Pp - 6 different kids. 3 at Yale, 1 Dartmouth, 1 MIT and 1 Tufts early confirmed.

3 admits to Yale out of a class of 40 some students? That seems really high/great!

Just curious if the Yale kids are all legacy?

No. One is a legacy, one is a Questbridge scholar and the other is otherwise unhooked.

Ivy legacies are normally high SES white kids, so that's interesting.

Whatever "unhooked" means. Being a legacy certainly isn't the only way to be "hooked." An applicant can be recruited by a faculty member or department for high achievement in at least one area, e.g. winning a Westinghouse prize.

Hooked is used as a shorthand for legacies or children or major donors, recruited athletes, and under-represented minorities. And none of these students won a Westinghouse prize or the like.

Anonymous wrote:OK, rah rah, boost boost, great job. This intriguing thread would be a lot more interesting and useful if we learned something about these future Yalies and the MIT applicant. Are they legacies, as has already been asked? Are they AA, white, Asian, low SES or high? Did families hire independent college counselors? Did their families seek out strong extra-curriculars BASIS doesn't offer over the years? Are they strong in English, foreign languages, science, math? Yea, we get the part about them having worked really hard while comprising a high-performing cohort since 5th grade, and overcoming the odds despite having gone to school in a building without so much as a computer lab in a school system without formal GT.

No connection to the school, we are IB for Wilson with an elementary kid. But while interesting, I'd hope people to keep these details to a minimum, especially with such a small class.

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Anonymous wrote:I find this implausible, and I am not a BASIS hater or critic.

How many kids among those 5 acceptances? I know of 1 Ivy and 1 MIT.

Pp - 6 different kids. 3 at Yale, 1 Dartmouth, 1 MIT and 1 Tufts early confirmed.

3 admits to Yale out of a class of 40 some students? That seems really high/great!

Just curious if the Yale kids are all legacy?

No. One is a legacy, one is a Questbridge scholar and the other is otherwise unhooked.

Ivy legacies are normally high SES white kids, so that's interesting.

Whatever "unhooked" means. Being a legacy certainly isn't the only way to be "hooked." An applicant can be recruited by a faculty member or department for high achievement in at least one area, e.g. winning a Westinghouse prize.

OK, rah rah, boost boost, great job. This intriguing thread would be a lot more interesting and useful if we learned something about these future Yalies and the MIT applicant. Are they legacies, as has already been asked? Are they AA, white, Asian, low SES or high? Did families hire independent college counselors? Did their families seek out strong extra-curriculars BASIS doesn't offer over the years? Are they strong in English, foreign languages, science, math? Yea, we get the part about them having worked really hard while comprising a high-performing cohort since 5th grade, and overcoming the odds despite having gone to school in a building without so much as a computer lab in a school system without formal GT.

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Anonymous wrote:I find this implausible, and I am not a BASIS hater or critic.

How many kids among those 5 acceptances? I know of 1 Ivy and 1 MIT.

Pp - 6 different kids. 3 at Yale, 1 Dartmouth, 1 MIT and 1 Tufts early confirmed.

3 admits to Yale out of a class of 40 some students? That seems really high/great!

Just curious if the Yale kids are all legacy?

No. One is a legacy, one is a Questbridge scholar and the other is otherwise unhooked.

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Anonymous wrote:I find this implausible, and I am not a BASIS hater or critic.

How many kids among those 5 acceptances? I know of 1 Ivy and 1 MIT.

Pp - 6 different kids. 3 at Yale, 1 Dartmouth, 1 MIT and 1 Tufts early confirmed.

3 admits to Yale out of a class of 40 some students? That seems really high/great!

It is really high. My DC graduated from BASIS last year, and says the class of 2020 is really strong / these results aren't a huge surprise to them. All those kids have worked really hard and more than half of this year's seniors have opted to do the optional independent senior project. They are well-prepared for college.

Congrats to the all the kids. Hard work and high academic standards/expectations within a highly performing peer group paid off.

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Anonymous wrote:I find this implausible, and I am not a BASIS hater or critic.

How many kids among those 5 acceptances? I know of 1 Ivy and 1 MIT.

Pp - 6 different kids. 3 at Yale, 1 Dartmouth, 1 MIT and 1 Tufts early confirmed.

3 admits to Yale out of a class of 40 some students? That seems really high/great!

Just curious if the Yale kids are all legacy?

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Anonymous wrote:How can this be? They have a depressing building with no gym or stage? And the homework load is oppressive.

(sarcasm)

Being admitted to MIT is fantastic--I know, it's my alma mater--but hardly the be and end all. I want my kid to attend schools that are strong academically, AND have a computer lab, school library, strong fine arts program, good music program and decent playing fields/sports. My 4th grade kid shadowed for a day at BASIS recently and said, no thanks, "I'd suffocate in there."

I'm pleased to hear that future MIT students don't mind the depressing building, or at least can handle it, but fail to see how access to good facilities at school would hurt the admissions prospects of BASIS DC's senior class...

The point is that despite the subpar facilities, the inexperienced college counseling, and so on ... many BASIS students' are well prepared for and receiving admission to elite colleges and universities. Since virtually all of them live outside the Wilson boundary and have crappy IB options, their choice seems to have paid off. Of course it would be great if the facilities were better -- but that can be said for virtually every charter school in the city.

+1. It's a little scary that an MIT alum couldn't figure this out? Maybe MIT isn't that great a place after all?

So that must mean getting admitted to MIT isn't such a great thing either?

Awesome news for those students.

Hope all the seniors land at the place that is the best fit for them.

--BASIS middle school parent

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Anonymous wrote:I find this implausible, and I am not a BASIS hater or critic.

How many kids among those 5 acceptances? I know of 1 Ivy and 1 MIT.

Pp - 6 different kids. 3 at Yale, 1 Dartmouth, 1 MIT and 1 Tufts early confirmed.

3 admits to Yale out of a class of 40 some students? That seems really high/great!

It is really high. My DC graduated from BASIS last year, and says the class of 2020 is really strong / these results aren't a huge surprise to them. All those kids have worked really hard and more than half of this year's seniors have opted to do the optional independent senior project. They are well-prepared for college.

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Anonymous wrote:I find this implausible, and I am not a BASIS hater or critic.

How many kids among those 5 acceptances? I know of 1 Ivy and 1 MIT.

Pp - 6 different kids. 3 at Yale, 1 Dartmouth, 1 MIT and 1 Tufts early confirmed.

3 admits to Yale out of a class of 40 some students? That seems really high/great!

Get a life. Popular DC charters really shouldn't have to operate n buildings like BASIS', with weak facilities. The city council really needs to step up to ensure that facilities are good for both successful DCPS and DCPCS programs. Voters clearly need to organize and lobby for this to change.

Thanks. Congrats to those kids, their parents and teachers.

Fingers crossed for the rest of the class. Hope they all end up in places where they will thrive.

Anonymous wrote:I find this implausible, and I am not a BASIS hater or critic.

How many kids among those 5 acceptances? I know of 1 Ivy and 1 MIT.

Pp - 6 different kids. 3 at Yale, 1 Dartmouth, 1 MIT and 1 Tufts early confirmed.