Chantilly High or Langley?

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Anonymous wrote:Langley is better

Yeah, if you want to your kids to attend HS with only UMC/rich kids, some of whom are incredibly clueless and snotty.

Otherwise, no real difference.

https://www.instagram.com/chantilly2022decisions/

https://www.instagram.com/langleycommits2022/

You do realize that when you go to college, you will also be surrounded by these UMC/rich kids.

You may not see a difference between the college admissions but I do.

You must be squinting very hard. Maybe that's a habit acquired after you deplete your bank accounts to join the ranks of the house-poor in the Langley district.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Langley is better

Langley people with kids at Potomac school look down on Langley people with kids at Langley High School, who in turn look down on people with kids at Chantilly HS.

We know this how exactly?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Langley is better

Yeah, if you want to your kids to attend HS with only UMC/rich kids, some of whom are incredibly clueless and snotty.

Otherwise, no real difference.

https://www.instagram.com/chantilly2022decisions/

https://www.instagram.com/langleycommits2022/

You do realize that when you go to college, you will also be surrounded by these UMC/rich kids.

You may not see a difference between the college admissions but I do.

You must be squinting very hard. Maybe that's a habit acquired after you deplete your bank accounts to join the ranks of the house-poor in the Langley district.

We are on the wealthier side for Langley. We have a seven figure income and we did not stretch in the slightest to live here.

Every year we consider switching to private but our kids are thriving and love their friends.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Langley is better

Yeah, if you want to your kids to attend HS with only UMC/rich kids, some of whom are incredibly clueless and snotty.

Otherwise, no real difference.

https://www.instagram.com/chantilly2022decisions/

https://www.instagram.com/langleycommits2022/

You do realize that when you go to college, you will also be surrounded by these UMC/rich kids.

You may not see a difference between the college admissions but I do.

You must be squinting very hard. Maybe that's a habit acquired after you deplete your bank accounts to join the ranks of the house-poor in the Langley district.

We are on the wealthier side for Langley. We have a seven figure income and we did not stretch in the slightest to live here.

Every year we consider switching to private but our kids are thriving and love their friends.

I don’t know anyone who is really happy with their public schools who thinks about switching to privates every year. Sounds like Langley isn’t all that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Langley is better

Yeah, if you want to your kids to attend HS with only UMC/rich kids, some of whom are incredibly clueless and snotty.

Otherwise, no real difference.

https://www.instagram.com/chantilly2022decisions/

https://www.instagram.com/langleycommits2022/

You do realize that when you go to college, you will also be surrounded by these UMC/rich kids.

You may not see a difference between the college admissions but I do.

You must be squinting very hard. Maybe that's a habit acquired after you deplete your bank accounts to join the ranks of the house-poor in the Langley district.

We are on the wealthier side for Langley. We have a seven figure income and we did not stretch in the slightest to live here.

Every year we consider switching to private but our kids are thriving and love their friends.

I don’t know anyone who is really happy with their public schools who thinks about switching to privates every year. Sounds like Langley isn’t all that.

Really? Almost everyone we know during Covid considered switching to private and many did.

My kids are still young. My youngest is in preschool and most of the kids in the school go to private school so we are also considering it. Then you think about the other 2 kids who are thriving in public and wonder if you should also switch them to private, especially during the middle of a pandemic.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Langley is better

Yeah, if you want to your kids to attend HS with only UMC/rich kids, some of whom are incredibly clueless and snotty.

Otherwise, no real difference.

https://www.instagram.com/chantilly2022decisions/

https://www.instagram.com/langleycommits2022/

You do realize that when you go to college, you will also be surrounded by these UMC/rich kids.

You may not see a difference between the college admissions but I do.

You must be squinting very hard. Maybe that's a habit acquired after you deplete your bank accounts to join the ranks of the house-poor in the Langley district.

We are on the wealthier side for Langley. We have a seven figure income and we did not stretch in the slightest to live here.

Every year we consider switching to private but our kids are thriving and love their friends.

I don’t know anyone who is really happy with their public schools who thinks about switching to privates every year. Sounds like Langley isn’t all that.

I was just commenting on the college admissions. My kids don’t attend Langley.

I was an overachiever and I do struggle with what I think is best for my children. I know I don’t want TJ or Potomac for my kids. At the same time, I’m not sure if Langley would be best for them either.

[Anonymous]

The college admissions results are not appreciably different at Langley and Chantilly. The level of snobbery is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The college admissions results are not appreciably different at Langley and Chantilly. The level of snobbery is.

The results ate incomplete. Chantilly has 700 seniors and Langley has 500. This instagram is a fraction of the class.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The college admissions results are not appreciably different at Langley and Chantilly. The level of snobbery is.

The results ate incomplete. Chantilly has 700 seniors and Langley has 500. This instagram is a fraction of the class.

One works with the available evidence, which to date indicates no big difference. Hope those spending the extra money to live in Langley got some other benefit out of it.

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Anonymous wrote:Fairfax county high schools are all diverse,

Every single one

People just like to complain

I used to live in Alexandria and now live in McLean. Both schools are incredibly diverse, just in different ways. Our school in Alexandria had a large Spanish speaking population and our McLean school has more Asians and Middle Eastern students.

Langley has next to no economic diversity. Chantilly does, as does every other high school in FCPS besides Langley.

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OP, look at the college acceptances from Langley. Colleges tend to think "the rich white folk" will do well in life, no mater what, "no need to take m/any of them!"

Chantilly gets my vote.

THIS. THIS.THIS. It’s especially hard if you’re not super wealthy because colleges assume you have lots of money and connections. A lot of people in McLean are living completely boring - and not at all luxurious lives - to pay the mortgage on an out of date little house. But for college, they are compared against the kids who spend $25,000 on private athletic coaching, $6,000 on test prep, and four years of private tutors because they share the same zip code.

So much misinformation. There are plenty of good college acceptances at both Langley and McLean and they are not all the rich kids.

I do agree that OP should not stretch their budget just to pay their mortgage in McLean but your analysis of McLean is just ridiculously wrong.

Colleges compare kids to their classmates. Colleges know which zip codes are rich. It doesn’t matter if you’re scraping by in McLean, you are compared to the kids who are truly wealthy and have all the perks your kid doesn’t have. Drive through the student parking lot and count the Teslas, Audis, and Mercedes. When those kids need private coaching, tutoring, or test prep to get a high score or excel in a sport, they get it. And it costs thousands. Sports alone can be tens of thousands a year. You’re kidding yourself if you think your UMC kids’ acceptances wouldn’t be better in a more economically diverse school.

If this resonated at all, there'd be a lot more families slumming in poorer zip codes to give their kids a boost when it comes to college admissions.

But it doesn't. Feel free to compare college admissions from Langley with those from Annandale and Mount Vernon and see who is getting into better schools.

And parents know that, in the long run, their kids will do better if they attend high school with kids more likely to be up for academic challenges rather than kids in need of frequent remediation. You have to look not only at how the "same kid" would fare applying from two different areas, but also whether your kid will end up progressing as much and presenting as favorably if they attend less challenging schools with lower expectations.

That's not to say Chantilly isn't a great school, but your anecdotes - including the oft-repeated but false trope about Langley's student parking lot being full of Teslas, Audis, and Mercedes - indicate that you traffic in suburban myths and can't be taken seriously.

Well said. So sick of these twits pretending to know anything at all about schools their kids don’t attend.

This “twit” drives through that parking lot twice a day. Nice meet you. Langley is a great school but there’s no secret sauce there besides how many families have money. What’s weird is those of you who want to pretend that one Fairfax County school could be “superior” for any other reason.

It is not about money. It is about education. I think all of my kids’ friends have parents with grad degrees. Many of them are from top schools like Harvard. Tons of UVA alumni.

Fair point but you realize you have described a good portion of FCPS parents? The biggest difference between Langley and other schools is wealth. Just own it. There’s nothing wrong with it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fairfax county high schools are all diverse,

Every single one

People just like to complain

I used to live in Alexandria and now live in McLean. Both schools are incredibly diverse, just in different ways. Our school in Alexandria had a large Spanish speaking population and our McLean school has more Asians and Middle Eastern students.

Langley has next to no economic diversity. Chantilly does, as does every other high school in FCPS besides Langley.

+1

OP, look at the college acceptances from Langley. Colleges tend to think "the rich white folk" will do well in life, no mater what, "no need to take m/any of them!"

Chantilly gets my vote.

THIS. THIS.THIS. It’s especially hard if you’re not super wealthy because colleges assume you have lots of money and connections. A lot of people in McLean are living completely boring - and not at all luxurious lives - to pay the mortgage on an out of date little house. But for college, they are compared against the kids who spend $25,000 on private athletic coaching, $6,000 on test prep, and four years of private tutors because they share the same zip code.

So much misinformation. There are plenty of good college acceptances at both Langley and McLean and they are not all the rich kids.

I do agree that OP should not stretch their budget just to pay their mortgage in McLean but your analysis of McLean is just ridiculously wrong.

Colleges compare kids to their classmates. Colleges know which zip codes are rich. It doesn’t matter if you’re scraping by in McLean, you are compared to the kids who are truly wealthy and have all the perks your kid doesn’t have. Drive through the student parking lot and count the Teslas, Audis, and Mercedes. When those kids need private coaching, tutoring, or test prep to get a high score or excel in a sport, they get it. And it costs thousands. Sports alone can be tens of thousands a year. You’re kidding yourself if you think your UMC kids’ acceptances wouldn’t be better in a more economically diverse school.

If this resonated at all, there'd be a lot more families slumming in poorer zip codes to give their kids a boost when it comes to college admissions.

But it doesn't. Feel free to compare college admissions from Langley with those from Annandale and Mount Vernon and see who is getting into better schools.

And parents know that, in the long run, their kids will do better if they attend high school with kids more likely to be up for academic challenges rather than kids in need of frequent remediation. You have to look not only at how the "same kid" would fare applying from two different areas, but also whether your kid will end up progressing as much and presenting as favorably if they attend less challenging schools with lower expectations.

That's not to say Chantilly isn't a great school, but your anecdotes - including the oft-repeated but false trope about Langley's student parking lot being full of Teslas, Audis, and Mercedes - indicate that you traffic in suburban myths and can't be taken seriously.

Well said. So sick of these twits pretending to know anything at all about schools their kids don’t attend.

This “twit” drives through that parking lot twice a day. Nice meet you. Langley is a great school but there’s no secret sauce there besides how many families have money. What’s weird is those of you who want to pretend that one Fairfax County school could be “superior” for any other reason.

It is not about money. It is about education. I think all of my kids’ friends have parents with grad degrees. Many of them are from top schools like Harvard. Tons of UVA alumni.

Fair point but you realize you have described a good portion of FCPS parents? The biggest difference between Langley and other schools is wealth. Just own it. There’s nothing wrong with it.

In our old neighborhood, not everyone had grad degrees. Not even close. There were a lot of blue collar workers. I am sure the demographics of Langley, Oakton, Vienna, Arlington, Bethesda, Chevy Chase are all the same. I am not familiar with Chantilly as I don’t know anyone who lives there.

I went to a high school like Langley in the Northeast. One big difference that I see is that in VA, state schools seem to be quite popular. This may be geographic or because VA has so many excellent public school options like UVA, VT and W&M. Dh and I went to schools where good private college were popular like Cornell, Columbia, NYU, Boston College, Tufts, Amherst, Bowdoin, Wellesley, Swarthmore, Fordham, etc. Not many kids went public that could afford private. I am surprised more kids from around here don’t go to Georgetown or Johns Hopkins. I wonder if they just opt for UVA since obvious lower price tag. I wonder if the normal VA doesn’t apply to these other good private colleges in the NE.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The college admissions results are not appreciably different at Langley and Chantilly. The level of snobbery is.

The results ate incomplete. Chantilly has 700 seniors and Langley has 500. This instagram is a fraction of the class.

One works with the available evidence, which to date indicates no big difference. Hope those spending the extra money to live in Langley got some other benefit out of it.

Dh has a 20 min door to door commute into DC. We wanted a short commute and good schools. That is why we live in McLean. We looked at both the McLean High and Langley side and we just happen to like the house we bought better. We live about 5 min from Langley High and 10 min from McLean High.

I think I posted upthread about choosing where to live based on work. I personally liked Oakton and Vienna but crossing Route 7 would have added 30 min to DH’s commute so we decided on McLean.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Fairfax county high schools are all diverse,

Every single one

People just like to complain

I used to live in Alexandria and now live in McLean. Both schools are incredibly diverse, just in different ways. Our school in Alexandria had a large Spanish speaking population and our McLean school has more Asians and Middle Eastern students.

Langley has next to no economic diversity. Chantilly does, as does every other high school in FCPS besides Langley.

There is economic diversity - middle class, UMC and rich. They just don’t have poor kids.

Some other schools may have poor kids, middle class and some UMC.

You have a warped understanding of “middle class.” No middle-class kids go to Langley, and relatively few who are UMC. It’s overwhelmingly wealthy and very wealthy.

If so then OP can just move to the Langley pyramid since that’s what she values.

Thread over and if that works out for her family great and if not we don’t need to care.

Either school will work out well with a focused student . It is harder to get into UVa from Langley. There are only so many from one school who will be accepted. I went to a public school in the Midwest with average scores better than Langley (27 ACT average[. Single mother in poverty.. Not much diversity although Michael Jordan's son attended. My aunt thought my brother and I had academic talent so she got us an apartment in the well off town. I was put off a bit by the wealthy but the school had a middle class element which was very good at athletics. I did not know I had top level NCAA scholarship sports talent until 10th grade, so the sports element turned out to be essential. If the school had mostly soft effete rich kids, I would have had to figure something out. In this vein, Chantilly would win over Langley hands down. I sent two kidx the Ivy League, with one TJ and the other Oakton. They would have had the same success at Chantilly. Not enough hungry and intense athletes at Langley. They haven't sent anyone to D 1 in years in my diverse sp9rt. To be good you have to train with maniacal intensity.

I couldn't disagree more with the notion that you become who you hang with (obviously must avoid criminals). I went to two of the best schools in the nation, and learned more about values and hard work from Teamsters workers I worked with over the summer. They were sending kids to college on a union wage and they had no hesitancy in kicking my rear to get good grades in college. I used to think they were just messing with me but that was incorrect. They treated me like a son and loved me enough to be tough on me. Hanging with the wealthy kids would have done me no favors. They are today my formative influences, a kid without a father. Today those kind of summer jobs would be looked down on as it wasn't an internship but rather dirty hard work where being tough meant keeping your mouth shut.

And your daily choices matter. The national level athletes I competed against almost to a one chose teaching or coaching. A good choice. My brother and I made overt choices
not to do that and went into sophisticated and challenging intellectual and professional fields. Our overt choices, and not who we hung with, made a difference. I am not saying a kid can't obtain these kinds of values while at Langley but don't be fooled into thinking the school will do it. Posh zip codes do nothing.

I respectfully disagree. Our family believes that your peer group, especially during the formidable teen years is extremely important.

We are zoned for Langley. My kids have such nice friends who come from good families with well educated parents. My kids have a high bar on what they think is normal. All their friends are good students. I do think it may be harder to stand out because there are so many strong students that are well rounded and good at everything.

If the bubble works for you, great. I measured my peers by how mentally tough and resilient they were, not whether they met a standard of normality. I couldn't smoke pot or drink - I was nationally competitive from 15 - rich kids get second chances- I knew cidnt. You likely know better, though. From single mother poverty, I went to Duke all on my own on athletic scholarship (magna cum laude) and Georgtown (again on my own with no debt and summa cum laude). Did not push my kids in any way but did send both to Princeton. My union guys taught me to be very tough and reslient, not something I associate with Langley where mommy and daddy hover. I am sure you and your kids went to better schools than me and my kids, so I will concede to as to the advantages of an effete environment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The college admissions results are not appreciably different at Langley and Chantilly. The level of snobbery is.

The only snobbery I’ve seen on this thread and all the other stupid ones like it are snobby posters putting down Langley kids and families just for the hell of it. Not a good look. Makes all the rest of you look pretty bad.
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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The college admissions results are not appreciably different at Langley and Chantilly. The level of snobbery is.

The only snobbery I’ve seen on this thread and all the other stupid ones like it are snobby posters putting down Langley kids and families just for the hell of it. Not a good look. Makes all the rest of you look pretty bad.
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