Langley college decisions

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. It’s called the Senior Scope bc it’s only for the seniors

I don’t understand this. Also, Langley and other FCPS high schools do not publish school profiles that include college matriculations. While I understand that individual students may want their privacy, I don’t understand why a public high school cannot publish where their graduates typically attend college. Private schools routinely publish such information.

It’s politics. FCPS is on a DEI sprint and it doesn’t look good to show major differences in college matriculations from various county high schools. As for the school paper and individual students, revealing college matriculations has become more contentious over the past few years as many students are not pleased with their results.

I don’t think I would want my kid’s college posted for all to see, definitely not on a public instagram where people from DCUM could look and compare.

This feels very different than when the news is shared with fellow senior classmates.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Yes. It’s called the Senior Scope bc it’s only for the seniors

I don’t understand this. Also, Langley and other FCPS high schools do not publish school profiles that include college matriculations. While I understand that individual students may want their privacy, I don’t understand why a public high school cannot publish where their graduates typically attend college. Private schools routinely publish such information.

DP. I’m confused - what don’t you understand? The school puts out a final year-end edition of their newspaper that is focused on the seniors. It lists where they’re going to college, but the students don’t have to offer that information if they don’t want to. There are a lot of kids who aren’t listed, probably because either chose not to be or didn’t get their info in on time. Pretty sure every FCPS HS has some version of this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. It’s called the Senior Scope bc it’s only for the seniors

I don’t understand this. Also, Langley and other FCPS high schools do not publish school profiles that include college matriculations. While I understand that individual students may want their privacy, I don’t understand why a public high school cannot publish where their graduates typically attend college. Private schools routinely publish such information.

It’s politics. FCPS is on a DEI sprint and it doesn’t look good to show major differences in college matriculations from various county high schools. As for the school paper and individual students, revealing college matriculations has become more contentious over the past few years as many students are not pleased with their results.

I don’t think I would want my kid’s college posted for all to see, definitely not on a public instagram where people from DCUM could look and compare.

This feels very different than when the news is shared with fellow senior classmates.

It’s completely voluntary. No one is made to share their information. And every school does this.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Same as the last few years – URM and sports recruits are the only ones heading to the Ivy’s.

An incredibly talented pool of students are heading to other colleges.

The bolded is actually not true. Several students headed to Ivies who are neither URM nor sports recruits.

They are all/mostly legacies.

No, they're not. They are top students. Period.

They can be both. Mostly legacy.

I know all of these kids. None are legacies. But you’re welcome to keep insisting otherwise.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yes. It’s called the Senior Scope bc it’s only for the seniors

I don’t understand this. Also, Langley and other FCPS high schools do not publish school profiles that include college matriculations. While I understand that individual students may want their privacy, I don’t understand why a public high school cannot publish where their graduates typically attend college. Private schools routinely publish such information.

It’s politics. FCPS is on a DEI sprint and it doesn’t look good to show major differences in college matriculations from various county high schools. As for the school paper and individual students, revealing college matriculations has become more contentious over the past few years as many students are not pleased with their results.

I don’t think I would want my kid’s college posted for all to see, definitely not on a public instagram where people from DCUM could look and compare.

This feels very different than when the news is shared with fellow senior classmates.

+1

Rather class members know than insecure adults.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:30 kids from McLean headed to UVA. 12 to W&M.

It’s more than that. There are 32 kids listed as going to UVA in the senior edition of the school newspaper and some kids don’t bother submitting their plans to the paper.

Roughly similar numbers at Madison according to the newspaper senior edition -- 28 going to UVA and 13 to William & Mary.

[Anonymous]

And we wonder why our kids are hung up on rankings and prestige . . . .

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:30 kids from McLean headed to UVA. 12 to W&M.

It’s more than that. There are 32 kids listed as going to UVA in the senior edition of the school newspaper and some kids don’t bother submitting their plans to the paper.

This is similar to Justice too. There are 29 students listed in the school newspaper (those are the ones who self-reported). I’m not sure about William & Mary but I know of at least 6.

[Anonymous]

We are just outside NOVA, but here only Magnets publish a slideshow of their grads with Colleges & Major. However, those are usually only posted on the Magnet websites known to parents of kids in those programs or have a sign-in. Only one puts it on their public FB page.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:McLean's placement is almost always more impressive than Langley, in recent years.

How so? Every one of those schools is on the Langley list as well. You sound just a tad insecure.

I think there is some rivalry between Langley and McLean.

We moved to McLean 4 years ago and we wanted to buy a house on the McLean High side but we liked the houses on the Langley side better. Pretty sure back then McLean was considered the better high school and now Langley is. They are both great schools with an excellent students at both schools. McLean has more students even though some of McLEan high students got rezoned to Langley recently.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:McLean's placement is almost always more impressive than Langley, in recent years.

How so? Every one of those schools is on the Langley list as well. You sound just a tad insecure.

I think there is some rivalry between Langley and McLean.

We moved to McLean 4 years ago and we wanted to buy a house on the McLean High side but we liked the houses on the Langley side better. Pretty sure back then McLean was considered the better high school and now Langley is. They are both great schools with an excellent students at both schools. McLean has more students even though some of McLEan high students got rezoned to Langley recently.

Langley has always been wealthier, but McLean is just as strong academically. That has not changed over the past four years. As you say, both are strong schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you for this thread. We were considering sending our kids to private school instead of Langley. Dh wanted to keep them in public. He always says he doesn’t want to pay $40k per year for 3 kids for schools that have the same or worse college admissions than our local public.

Just remember that’s it’s harder to shine at Langley. You’re reading about the top 10% of the class. “Everyone” is in honor society and in a class of 400, leadership roles are harder to get. A weighted 4.0 puts you at 50% , which isn't persuasive in admissions. Some colleges seem to understand this and judge differently (OOS), some don’t (UVA.)

It’s a good school but IMO, there’s far too much emphasis on AP rigor for the sake of rigor, and not enough on learning. Though, to be fair, that’s a public school problem in general. If I could have afforded private for our DC, it would have been better for them: mentally and academically.

As a Langely parent I second this take. It's a double edged sword b/c on the one hand the there is a tide that supports strong academics, but on the other it skews the competition for UVA b/c despite what they say in their admissions meetings.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you for this thread. We were considering sending our kids to private school instead of Langley. Dh wanted to keep them in public. He always says he doesn’t want to pay $40k per year for 3 kids for schools that have the same or worse college admissions than our local public.

Just remember that’s it’s harder to shine at Langley. You’re reading about the top 10% of the class. “Everyone” is in honor society and in a class of 400, leadership roles are harder to get. A weighted 4.0 puts you at 50% , which isn't persuasive in admissions. Some colleges seem to understand this and judge differently (OOS), some don’t (UVA.)

It’s a good school but IMO, there’s far too much emphasis on AP rigor for the sake of rigor, and not enough on learning. Though, to be fair, that’s a public school problem in general. If I could have afforded private for our DC, it would have been better for them: mentally and academically.

As a Langely parent I second this take. It's a double edged sword b/c on the one hand the there is a tide that supports strong academics, but on the other it skews the competition for UVA b/c despite what they say in their admissions meetings.

+2

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:McLean's placement is almost always more impressive than Langley, in recent years.

How so? Every one of those schools is on the Langley list as well. You sound just a tad insecure.

I think there is some rivalry between Langley and McLean.

We moved to McLean 4 years ago and we wanted to buy a house on the McLean High side but we liked the houses on the Langley side better. Pretty sure back then McLean was considered the better high school and now Langley is. They are both great schools with an excellent students at both schools. McLean has more students even though some of McLEan high students got rezoned to Langley recently.

I think you have it backwards. Langley has always been considered the better HS but now it seems like McLean is as strong or better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thank you for this thread. We were considering sending our kids to private school instead of Langley. Dh wanted to keep them in public. He always says he doesn’t want to pay $40k per year for 3 kids for schools that have the same or worse college admissions than our local public.

Just remember that’s it’s harder to shine at Langley. You’re reading about the top 10% of the class. “Everyone” is in honor society and in a class of 400, leadership roles are harder to get. A weighted 4.0 puts you at 50% , which isn't persuasive in admissions. Some colleges seem to understand this and judge differently (OOS), some don’t (UVA.)

It’s a good school but IMO, there’s far too much emphasis on AP rigor for the sake of rigor, and not enough on learning. Though, to be fair, that’s a public school problem in general. If I could have afforded private for our DC, it would have been better for them: mentally and academically.

As a Langely parent I second this take. It's a double edged sword b/c on the one hand the there is a tide that supports strong academics, but on the other it skews the competition for UVA b/c despite what they say in their admissions meetings.

Future Langley parent here. Can you clarify what you mean by “skews the competition for UVA”?

My oldest is in 7th grade at Cooper. There are some extremely smart kids in his friend group and his friends are mostly from his base elementary school. I’m sure there are so many other extremely smart kids from all the other schools he just doesn’t know yet.