College placement from Yorktown or Washington-Lee?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you paid the taxes that they pay, then you would feel entitled too.

seriously i can't understand why people living in $1MM houses would send their kids in public schools. talk about setting your priorities straight...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you paid the taxes that they pay, then you would feel entitled too.

seriously i can't understand why people living in $1MM houses would send their kids in public schools. talk about setting your priorities straight...

Why is that hard to believe? People buy in expensive areas for the schools, proximity to jobs, etc.

If schools were great in poor neighborhoods, do you think the homes there would be cheap?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you paid the taxes that they pay, then you would feel entitled too.

seriously i can't understand why people living in $1MM houses would send their kids in public schools. talk about setting your priorities straight...

Sounds like someone from the District talking....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you paid the taxes that they pay, then you would feel entitled too.

seriously i can't understand why people living in $1MM houses would send their kids in public schools. talk about setting your priorities straight...

Sounds like someone from the District talking....

sounds like someone never attended private schools talking

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you paid the taxes that they pay, then you would feel entitled too.

seriously i can't understand why people living in $1MM houses would send their kids in public schools. talk about setting your priorities straight...

Sounds like someone from the District talking....

sounds like someone never attended private schools talking

I went to a public high school, my husband went to a private, and thanks to Arlington Public Schools, he is a bigger booster of public schools than I am.

[Anonymous]

Nowadays, you see many couples who have 3-4 kids. This causes the overcrowding of schools. Totally unnecessary.

Having *any* children is unnecessary, but people are just evil and selfish, having those babies.

[Anonymous]

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Nowadays, you see many couples who have 3-4 kids. This causes the overcrowding of schools. Totally unnecessary.

Having *any* children is unnecessary, but people are just evil and selfish, having those babies.

Yeah, just adopt.

[Anonymous]

The Arlington schools are crowded for a lot of reasons. One of the biggest is that people used to sell their Arlington boxes and move further out when they had their babies. During the last housing boom, people expanded or tore the original house down and stayed (or left, and were replaced by richer families). It is really obvious if you look around.

I don't think there's any difference that matters regarding college placement that would distinguish W&L from Yorktown for a person buying a house. Yeah, the Yorktown kids probably place better, but on average, their families are richer (and much more likely to be US born) which also affects college placement.

[Anonymous]

If I were buying in Arlington, I would stick to North Arlington and especially Yorktown. Although Yorktown is probably the best in Arlington, it's probably not as good as the top schools in Fairfax County.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I were buying in Arlington, I would stick to North Arlington and especially Yorktown. Although Yorktown is probably the best in Arlington, it's probably not as good as the top schools in Fairfax County.

Probably...probably..... maybe....whatever. Like you really know one way or the other.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you paid the taxes that they pay, then you would feel entitled too.

seriously i can't understand why people living in $1MM houses would send their kids in public schools. talk about setting your priorities straight...

Sounds like someone from the District talking....

sounds like someone never attended private schools talking

Another pretentious post. $1MM is not an exhorbitant amount to pay for a house in the DC area. Who the he11 do you think goes to Churchill, BCC, Langley, etc? Another post on this thread lumped Vienna , Burke, and Springfield together. Who ever did that knows nothing about NOVA. Vienna is Tysons area and is near Mclean and Great Falls. Burke and Springfield are far and near Lorton and Fairfax Station. Those locations would be beyond Gaithersburg if doing a Montco comparison.

[Anonymous]

6:02 again.

College placement is fine from Yorktown and W&L. Admissions review test scores, applications, GPA. Hooks are legacy status, VIP, underrepresented group, sports.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The Arlington schools are crowded for a lot of reasons. One of the biggest is that people used to sell their Arlington boxes and move further out when they had their babies. During the last housing boom, people expanded or tore the original house down and stayed (or left, and were replaced by richer families). It is really obvious if you look around.

I don't think there's any difference that matters regarding college placement that would distinguish W&L from Yorktown for a person buying a house. Yeah, the Yorktown kids probably place better, but on average, their families are richer (and much more likely to be US born) which also affects college placement.

Arlingtonian here and I totally agree with this. Lots of people who bought in the late 1990s or early 2000s saw huge increases in their property values and because of that are able to put on large additions instead of moving further out. 2 of my BIL and SILs have done just that. They bought their N. Arlington houses for about $$180,000-$200,000 and they are now worth over $500,000. So, they have used that equity to renovate and basically double the size of their houses. Really makes me wish I had been able to buy a house earlier!!

As for the schools, I agree they are basically the same. Yorktown has AP and W-L has IB if that matters. W-L is more diverse than Yorktown, but that is changing all the time as the county gets "richer" (not that diversity is a bad thing IMO, but some people seem to think so). We are zoned for W-L and I would have no problem sending my children there at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If I were buying in Arlington, I would stick to North Arlington and especially Yorktown. Although Yorktown is probably the best in Arlington, it's probably not as good as the top schools in Fairfax County.

Probably...probably..... maybe....whatever. Like you really know one way or the other.

Like you do.

I picked Fairfax because it's better.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If you paid the taxes that they pay, then you would feel entitled too.

seriously i can't understand why people living in $1MM houses would send their kids in public schools. talk about setting your priorities straight...

Sounds like someone from the District talking....

sounds like someone never attended private schools talking

Another pretentious post. $1MM is not an exhorbitant amount to pay for a house in the DC area. Who the he11 do you think goes to Churchill, BCC, Langley, etc? Another post on this thread lumped Vienna , Burke, and Springfield together. Who ever did that knows nothing about NOVA. Vienna is Tysons area and is near Mclean and Great Falls. Burke and Springfield are far and near Lorton and Fairfax Station. Those locations would be beyond Gaithersburg if doing a Montco comparison.

hence overcrowding in all schools. living in a $1MM house while burdening the schools systems with your precious little snowflakes.