Langley college decisions

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, that is correct, I left out the Yale admit from the list. Will post a corrected list when I post Langley stats, which I now have.

Could you please post the Langley stats? Would appreciate.

Stats? You mean GPA/test scores of kids? No one could possibly know this. Or did you mean college acceptances and the number of kids going to each school? Again, the list is incomplete because it's entirely self-reported.

I meant the list of colleges where Langley kids were going. I know it wasn’t a complete list.

No. We will not do this for you. You are annoying.

Actually the op said s/he would post Langley stats when s/he would post a corrected McLean stat. That is why I followed up to see.

I am interested because my kids are zoned for Langley. Many people like to put Langley down even though it is supposedly the best high school in Va after TJ. This thread is showing an extremely strong college list, which confirms that Langley may indeed be the best high school in VA.

It confirms that Langley students come from rich parents who care about education.

Langley parent here and I agree. Unless you believe that our curriculum is somehow different (it’s not) and we get the best teachers (we don’t), the obvious answer is high HHI and parents with advanced degrees. Money for tutoring, money for sports, money for test prep. Highly educated parents who expect the same for their kids.

The money spent on tutoring at Langley is significant. Especially after the past two years. Kids are thriving there only because parents are filling in the gaps.

Between all of the O days and other nonsense, many kids would not be prepared to take APs or master a subject if their parents were not hiring tutors.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, that is correct, I left out the Yale admit from the list. Will post a corrected list when I post Langley stats, which I now have.

Could you please post the Langley stats? Would appreciate.

Stats? You mean GPA/test scores of kids? No one could possibly know this. Or did you mean college acceptances and the number of kids going to each school? Again, the list is incomplete because it's entirely self-reported.

I meant the list of colleges where Langley kids were going. I know it wasn’t a complete list.

No. We will not do this for you. You are annoying.

Actually the op said s/he would post Langley stats when s/he would post a corrected McLean stat. That is why I followed up to see.

I am interested because my kids are zoned for Langley. Many people like to put Langley down even though it is supposedly the best high school in Va after TJ. This thread is showing an extremely strong college list, which confirms that Langley may indeed be the best high school in VA.

It confirms that Langley students come from rich parents who care about education.

Langley parent here and I agree. Unless you believe that our curriculum is somehow different (it’s not) and we get the best teachers (we don’t), the obvious answer is high HHI and parents with advanced degrees. Money for tutoring, money for sports, money for test prep. Highly educated parents who expect the same for their kids.

The interesting thing about Langley is the attitude among the administration that tries to tamp down student achievement. You see it every where and in subtle ways. It’s almost like no one within FCPS wants LHS students to shine.

Could you elaborate? Why would they do that?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, that is correct, I left out the Yale admit from the list. Will post a corrected list when I post Langley stats, which I now have.

Could you please post the Langley stats? Would appreciate.

Stats? You mean GPA/test scores of kids? No one could possibly know this. Or did you mean college acceptances and the number of kids going to each school? Again, the list is incomplete because it's entirely self-reported.

I meant the list of colleges where Langley kids were going. I know it wasn’t a complete list.

No. We will not do this for you. You are annoying.

Actually the op said s/he would post Langley stats when s/he would post a corrected McLean stat. That is why I followed up to see.

I am interested because my kids are zoned for Langley. Many people like to put Langley down even though it is supposedly the best high school in Va after TJ. This thread is showing an extremely strong college list, which confirms that Langley may indeed be the best high school in VA.

It confirms that Langley students come from rich parents who care about education.

Langley parent here and I agree. Unless you believe that our curriculum is somehow different (it’s not) and we get the best teachers (we don’t), the obvious answer is high HHI and parents with advanced degrees. Money for tutoring, money for sports, money for test prep. Highly educated parents who expect the same for their kids.

The interesting thing about Langley is the attitude among the administration that tries to tamp down student achievement. You see it every where and in subtle ways. It’s almost like no one within FCPS wants LHS students to shine.

Could you elaborate? Why would they do that?

It’s not interesting or suspicious. Langley staff and administration are very clear that they want parents to chill so their kids will too. There was a suicide in recent history and it’s no secret Langley has an intense student body. They just want your kids to be mentally well and reigning in the tiger parents is part of that. I appreciate that they are thoughtful and observant regarding kids who may be under too much pressure. They care.

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Anonymous wrote:No one cares about either.

Except you, who felt the need to post.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, that is correct, I left out the Yale admit from the list. Will post a corrected list when I post Langley stats, which I now have.

Could you please post the Langley stats? Would appreciate.

Stats? You mean GPA/test scores of kids? No one could possibly know this. Or did you mean college acceptances and the number of kids going to each school? Again, the list is incomplete because it's entirely self-reported.

I meant the list of colleges where Langley kids were going. I know it wasn’t a complete list.

No, that's something obnoxious McLean parents do - on threads that aren't even about McLean.

The McLean lists were posted only after someone specifically asked on this thread about McLean. That wasn’t surprising given how close the two schools are.

It's very easy to start a new thread specific to McLean. Those lists were off-topic. Imagine if someone from Langley posted all the Langley acceptances on a McLean thread. The outrage would be deafening.

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Anonymous wrote:Seems like some Langley parents chasing their own tails on this thread. They are desperate to make the case that Langley is “better” than other schools but then claiming it’s harder to get into UVA and other schools coming from Langley.

Race to nowhere?

Eh, it’s an anonymous board. You don’t know who is making which point.

I don’t think Langley’s education is different than any other FCPS school, it’s just a pretty intense student body when half the class graduates with honors and that can make rankings and admissions a little wonky.

I watched some of the Langley graduation livestream yesterday and half the class definitely did not graduate with honors. I would ballpark it at less than 25% of the class. Is it a 4.0 weighted GPA?

According to my Langley senior, yes, half the class had a 4.0 or above. I’m sure this varies some from class to class.

This is because people self select into Gen Ed, honors, and AP. So lots of people are getting A’s in the track they choose. Back in my day, there was one track, and there were A, B, and C students in each class.

I agree and this is an issue with Cum Laude society at other schools too. Yes, you may have a 4.7 but did you take AP Calc, AP Bio, AP comp/gov? Or AP psych and art? The problem with these “honors” is that kids who took the safe route get acknowledged and kids who challenge themselves don’t. All while we preach to them to not be afraid of failure and seek challenge and rigor.

DP. This is very well put and something that didn't even occur to me. My DC took very challenging courses, but wound up with a 3.89 - so no recognition or award. Several of DC's friends took the easier route you described and wound up with over 4.0 at graduation - and were labeled Honors graduates. Kind of sucks not to have DC's hard work acknowledged. Maybe DC should have just taken the easier classes too.

Your DC probably had better college options but the adults really do need to do a better job of rewarding what they encourage instead of simple, lazy definitions. My DC was in the same situation. Same with “advanced” diplomas - it’s not recognized but a 4.0 in gen Ed is. I get that schools are afraid of all this but they literally tell kids to not fear failure but then only reward perfection. Hum.

The best solution is to stop recognizing students at graduation for achieving a certain GPA.

I agree, to a point. I think they should return to recognizing ONE valedictorian and ONE salutatorian - period.
DP

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Anonymous wrote:OML. Y’all are positively, absolutely OBSESSED.

Note: it's not the Langley parents who are obsessed. It's other posters demanding information about the school. As usual.

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Anonymous wrote:Seems like some Langley parents chasing their own tails on this thread. They are desperate to make the case that Langley is “better” than other schools but then claiming it’s harder to get into UVA and other schools coming from Langley.

Race to nowhere?

Eh, it’s an anonymous board. You don’t know who is making which point.

I don’t think Langley’s education is different than any other FCPS school, it’s just a pretty intense student body when half the class graduates with honors and that can make rankings and admissions a little wonky.

I watched some of the Langley graduation livestream yesterday and half the class definitely did not graduate with honors. I would ballpark it at less than 25% of the class. Is it a 4.0 weighted GPA?

According to my Langley senior, yes, half the class had a 4.0 or above. I’m sure this varies some from class to class.

This is because people self select into Gen Ed, honors, and AP. So lots of people are getting A’s in the track they choose. Back in my day, there was one track, and there were A, B, and C students in each class.

I agree and this is an issue with Cum Laude society at other schools too. Yes, you may have a 4.7 but did you take AP Calc, AP Bio, AP comp/gov? Or AP psych and art? The problem with these “honors” is that kids who took the safe route get acknowledged and kids who challenge themselves don’t. All while we preach to them to not be afraid of failure and seek challenge and rigor.

DP. This is very well put and something that didn't even occur to me. My DC took very challenging courses, but wound up with a 3.89 - so no recognition or award. Several of DC's friends took the easier route you described and wound up with over 4.0 at graduation - and were labeled Honors graduates. Kind of sucks not to have DC's hard work acknowledged. Maybe DC should have just taken the easier classes too.

Your DC probably had better college options but the adults really do need to do a better job of rewarding what they encourage instead of simple, lazy definitions. My DC was in the same situation. Same with “advanced” diplomas - it’s not recognized but a 4.0 in gen Ed is. I get that schools are afraid of all this but they literally tell kids to not fear failure but then only reward perfection. Hum.

The best solution is to stop recognizing students at graduation for achieving a certain GPA.

I agree, to a point. I think they should return to recognizing ONE valedictorian and ONE salutatorian - period.
DP

That was worse in other ways. See previous comments.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, that is correct, I left out the Yale admit from the list. Will post a corrected list when I post Langley stats, which I now have.

Could you please post the Langley stats? Would appreciate.

Stats? You mean GPA/test scores of kids? No one could possibly know this. Or did you mean college acceptances and the number of kids going to each school? Again, the list is incomplete because it's entirely self-reported.

I meant the list of colleges where Langley kids were going. I know it wasn’t a complete list.

No. We will not do this for you. You are annoying.

Actually the op said s/he would post Langley stats when s/he would post a corrected McLean stat. That is why I followed up to see.

I am interested because my kids are zoned for Langley. Many people like to put Langley down even though it is supposedly the best high school in Va after TJ. This thread is showing an extremely strong college list, which confirms that Langley may indeed be the best high school in VA.

It confirms that Langley students come from rich parents who care about education.

Langley parent here and I agree. Unless you believe that our curriculum is somehow different (it’s not) and we get the best teachers (we don’t), the obvious answer is high HHI and parents with advanced degrees. Money for tutoring, money for sports, money for test prep. Highly educated parents who expect the same for their kids.

The interesting thing about Langley is the attitude among the administration that tries to tamp down student achievement. You see it every where and in subtle ways. It’s almost like no one within FCPS wants LHS students to shine.

DP. Could you give an example of what you mean? Langley parent here and I don't understand. Thanks!

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, that is correct, I left out the Yale admit from the list. Will post a corrected list when I post Langley stats, which I now have.

Could you please post the Langley stats? Would appreciate.

Stats? You mean GPA/test scores of kids? No one could possibly know this. Or did you mean college acceptances and the number of kids going to each school? Again, the list is incomplete because it's entirely self-reported.

I meant the list of colleges where Langley kids were going. I know it wasn’t a complete list.

No. We will not do this for you. You are annoying.

Actually the op said s/he would post Langley stats when s/he would post a corrected McLean stat. That is why I followed up to see.

I am interested because my kids are zoned for Langley. Many people like to put Langley down even though it is supposedly the best high school in Va after TJ. This thread is showing an extremely strong college list, which confirms that Langley may indeed be the best high school in VA.

It confirms that Langley students come from rich parents who care about education.

Langley parent here and I agree. Unless you believe that our curriculum is somehow different (it’s not) and we get the best teachers (we don’t), the obvious answer is high HHI and parents with advanced degrees. Money for tutoring, money for sports, money for test prep. Highly educated parents who expect the same for their kids.

The money spent on tutoring at Langley is significant. Especially after the past two years. Kids are thriving there only because parents are filling in the gaps.

Between all of the O days and other nonsense, many kids would not be prepared to take APs or master a subject if their parents were not hiring tutors.

That's quite the generalization there. My kids don't have tutors and did just fine on their AP tests. Maybe you're just talking about your own kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Seems like some Langley parents chasing their own tails on this thread. They are desperate to make the case that Langley is “better” than other schools but then claiming it’s harder to get into UVA and other schools coming from Langley.

Race to nowhere?

Eh, it’s an anonymous board. You don’t know who is making which point.

I don’t think Langley’s education is different than any other FCPS school, it’s just a pretty intense student body when half the class graduates with honors and that can make rankings and admissions a little wonky.

I watched some of the Langley graduation livestream yesterday and half the class definitely did not graduate with honors. I would ballpark it at less than 25% of the class. Is it a 4.0 weighted GPA?

According to my Langley senior, yes, half the class had a 4.0 or above. I’m sure this varies some from class to class.

This is because people self select into Gen Ed, honors, and AP. So lots of people are getting A’s in the track they choose. Back in my day, there was one track, and there were A, B, and C students in each class.

I agree and this is an issue with Cum Laude society at other schools too. Yes, you may have a 4.7 but did you take AP Calc, AP Bio, AP comp/gov? Or AP psych and art? The problem with these “honors” is that kids who took the safe route get acknowledged and kids who challenge themselves don’t. All while we preach to them to not be afraid of failure and seek challenge and rigor.

DP. This is very well put and something that didn't even occur to me. My DC took very challenging courses, but wound up with a 3.89 - so no recognition or award. Several of DC's friends took the easier route you described and wound up with over 4.0 at graduation - and were labeled Honors graduates. Kind of sucks not to have DC's hard work acknowledged. Maybe DC should have just taken the easier classes too.

Your DC probably had better college options but the adults really do need to do a better job of rewarding what they encourage instead of simple, lazy definitions. My DC was in the same situation. Same with “advanced” diplomas - it’s not recognized but a 4.0 in gen Ed is. I get that schools are afraid of all this but they literally tell kids to not fear failure but then only reward perfection. Hum.

The best solution is to stop recognizing students at graduation for achieving a certain GPA.

I agree, to a point. I think they should return to recognizing ONE valedictorian and ONE salutatorian - period.
DP

That was worse in other ways. See previous comments.

I completely disagree.

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Anonymous wrote:Seems like some Langley parents chasing their own tails on this thread. They are desperate to make the case that Langley is “better” than other schools but then claiming it’s harder to get into UVA and other schools coming from Langley.

Race to nowhere?

Eh, it’s an anonymous board. You don’t know who is making which point.

I don’t think Langley’s education is different than any other FCPS school, it’s just a pretty intense student body when half the class graduates with honors and that can make rankings and admissions a little wonky.

I watched some of the Langley graduation livestream yesterday and half the class definitely did not graduate with honors. I would ballpark it at less than 25% of the class. Is it a 4.0 weighted GPA?

According to my Langley senior, yes, half the class had a 4.0 or above. I’m sure this varies some from class to class.

This is because people self select into Gen Ed, honors, and AP. So lots of people are getting A’s in the track they choose. Back in my day, there was one track, and there were A, B, and C students in each class.

I agree and this is an issue with Cum Laude society at other schools too. Yes, you may have a 4.7 but did you take AP Calc, AP Bio, AP comp/gov? Or AP psych and art? The problem with these “honors” is that kids who took the safe route get acknowledged and kids who challenge themselves don’t. All while we preach to them to not be afraid of failure and seek challenge and rigor.

DP. This is very well put and something that didn't even occur to me. My DC took very challenging courses, but wound up with a 3.89 - so no recognition or award. Several of DC's friends took the easier route you described and wound up with over 4.0 at graduation - and were labeled Honors graduates. Kind of sucks not to have DC's hard work acknowledged. Maybe DC should have just taken the easier classes too.

Your DC probably had better college options but the adults really do need to do a better job of rewarding what they encourage instead of simple, lazy definitions. My DC was in the same situation. Same with “advanced” diplomas - it’s not recognized but a 4.0 in gen Ed is. I get that schools are afraid of all this but they literally tell kids to not fear failure but then only reward perfection. Hum.

The best solution is to stop recognizing students at graduation for achieving a certain GPA.

I agree, to a point. I think they should return to recognizing ONE valedictorian and ONE salutatorian - period.
DP

Wait, what do they have now?

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, that is correct, I left out the Yale admit from the list. Will post a corrected list when I post Langley stats, which I now have.

Could you please post the Langley stats? Would appreciate.

Stats? You mean GPA/test scores of kids? No one could possibly know this. Or did you mean college acceptances and the number of kids going to each school? Again, the list is incomplete because it's entirely self-reported.

I meant the list of colleges where Langley kids were going. I know it wasn’t a complete list.

No. We will not do this for you. You are annoying.

Actually the op said s/he would post Langley stats when s/he would post a corrected McLean stat. That is why I followed up to see.

I am interested because my kids are zoned for Langley. Many people like to put Langley down even though it is supposedly the best high school in Va after TJ. This thread is showing an extremely strong college list, which confirms that Langley may indeed be the best high school in VA.

It confirms that Langley students come from rich parents who care about education.

Langley parent here and I agree. Unless you believe that our curriculum is somehow different (it’s not) and we get the best teachers (we don’t), the obvious answer is high HHI and parents with advanced degrees. Money for tutoring, money for sports, money for test prep. Highly educated parents who expect the same for their kids.

The interesting thing about Langley is the attitude among the administration that tries to tamp down student achievement. You see it every where and in subtle ways. It’s almost like no one within FCPS wants LHS students to shine.

Could you elaborate? Why would they do that?

It’s not interesting or suspicious. Langley staff and administration are very clear that they want parents to chill so their kids will too. There was a suicide in recent history and it’s no secret Langley has an intense student body. They just want your kids to be mentally well and reigning in the tiger parents is part of that. I appreciate that they are thoughtful and observant regarding kids who may be under too much pressure. They care.

That's a rather different take than the PP, who said it's "almost like no one within FCPS wants LHS students to shine." I'd like to know what she meant.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, that is correct, I left out the Yale admit from the list. Will post a corrected list when I post Langley stats, which I now have.

Could you please post the Langley stats? Would appreciate.

Stats? You mean GPA/test scores of kids? No one could possibly know this. Or did you mean college acceptances and the number of kids going to each school? Again, the list is incomplete because it's entirely self-reported.

I meant the list of colleges where Langley kids were going. I know it wasn’t a complete list.

No. We will not do this for you. You are annoying.

Actually the op said s/he would post Langley stats when s/he would post a corrected McLean stat. That is why I followed up to see.

I am interested because my kids are zoned for Langley. Many people like to put Langley down even though it is supposedly the best high school in Va after TJ. This thread is showing an extremely strong college list, which confirms that Langley may indeed be the best high school in VA.

It confirms that Langley students come from rich parents who care about education.

Langley parent here and I agree. Unless you believe that our curriculum is somehow different (it’s not) and we get the best teachers (we don’t), the obvious answer is high HHI and parents with advanced degrees. Money for tutoring, money for sports, money for test prep. Highly educated parents who expect the same for their kids.

The money spent on tutoring at Langley is significant. Especially after the past two years. Kids are thriving there only because parents are filling in the gaps.

Between all of the O days and other nonsense, many kids would not be prepared to take APs or master a subject if their parents were not hiring tutors.

That's quite the generalization there. My kids don't have tutors and did just fine on their AP tests. Maybe you're just talking about your own kids.

Same! None of my LHS kids prepped for AP exams.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes, that is correct, I left out the Yale admit from the list. Will post a corrected list when I post Langley stats, which I now have.

Could you please post the Langley stats? Would appreciate.

Stats? You mean GPA/test scores of kids? No one could possibly know this. Or did you mean college acceptances and the number of kids going to each school? Again, the list is incomplete because it's entirely self-reported.

I meant the list of colleges where Langley kids were going. I know it wasn’t a complete list.

No, that's something obnoxious McLean parents do - on threads that aren't even about McLean.

The McLean lists were posted only after someone specifically asked on this thread about McLean. That wasn’t surprising given how close the two schools are.

It's very easy to start a new thread specific to McLean. Those lists were off-topic. Imagine if someone from Langley posted all the Langley acceptances on a McLean thread. The outrage would be deafening.

Threads evolve. People were commenting on this thread about Oakton and Alexandria City acceptances before anyone (and it was probably the same Langley poster who keeps asking for a Langley list) asked about McLean acceptances. Chill out.