WaPo Story on Marshall Student Accpeted to USC at 16 - Read This if DC Did Not Get Into TJ.

[Anonymous]

The mother lists the daughter as one of her projects on her Linked In profile. No wonder the girl wants to leave home and start college early.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/christinaayiotis?_mSplash=1

You have way to much time on your hands. So, she is just another Washington area uber-Mom like the ones who troll this web forum.

[Anonymous]

I don't get where people think that Fairfax County is some homogeneous white enclave. It is the largest jurisdiction - 1.2 million - and accounts for 20 percent of the total population of the Washington MSA. The county is 62% white, 17% Asian, 15% Hispanic and 9% black, with a smattering of other ethnicities rounding out the rest.

Over 100 different languages are spoken in Fairfax County, with the top 6 being:

1. Spanish
2. Korean
3. Vietnamese
4. Arabic
5. Urdu
6. Chinese/Mandarin

McLean is hardly representative of Fairfax County.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:USC is in the middle of South Central LA. I bet the mom will be calling the girl every night to make sure she's OK.

I would advise her not to wander off campus. There have been some tragic incidents. Even in broad daylight.

L.A. poster here. Please do not worry this striving, Fairfax County family by posting the worst about our dear city. It is true that you should be careful and aware of your surroundings in L.A., as in any large metropolitan area (including Washington, DC). This young woman will expand her horizons worlds beyond her safe, and relatively homogenous upbringing in lovely Fairfax County, VA. Her years at USC, apart from the strong academics of her specialized program, will be an education in itself in living in one of the most diverse, multi-cultural, socio-economically varied, and artistically-minded cities in this country. Welcome to Los Angeles, and congratulations on your accomplishment.

(One further note. My children, former PVS swimmers, now swim under Southern California Swimming. Two or three times a year we attend swim meets in the Olympic facility adjacent to the Coliseum. On these occasions, I will give my children money and permit them to walk, by themselves or with friends, in their meet downtime to a strip of restaurants adjacent to the USC campus. If my pre-teens and teenagers can navigate the USC surrounds carefully but safely, I am sure that this young woman will be fine. It is a good lesson in living in the "real world", where not everyone is affluent and not everything is "safe" at all times.)

Really, what are you saying here?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:USC does not even make the top 100 among "unsafe campuses" in rankings of campus crime and safety. Meanwhile....

#2 Harvard
#16 UPenn
#17 Brown
#18 Columbia
#19 Stanford
#25 Yale

More at: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/09/14/most-dangerous-college-campuses-ranked.html

It's not the "campus"that's the problem, it's the neighborhood surrounding it. Stay on campus all the time and you're likely to be safe. If that's how you want to live.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I don't get where people think that Fairfax County is some homogeneous white enclave. It is the largest jurisdiction - 1.2 million - and accounts for 20 percent of the total population of the Washington MSA. The county is 62% white, 17% Asian, 15% Hispanic and 9% black, with a smattering of other ethnicities rounding out the rest.

Over 100 different languages are spoken in Fairfax County, with the top 6 being:

1. Spanish
2. Korean
3. Vietnamese
4. Arabic
5. Urdu
6. Chinese/Mandarin

McLean is hardly representative of Fairfax County.

You mean English is no longer among the top six languages in Fairfax County? Wow. Definitely time to move to Loudoun.

[Anonymous]

College teacher here: Those poor kids who start college at 16. They may be ready for the course work, but the social life is a bear for them. I would perhaps consider a very safe and secluded campus, but USC is anything but that. It is an urban campus in a bad part of a very large city.

[Anonymous]

@07:29 - Obviously, we were talking about languages other than English.

[Anonymous]

But, FYI, here are the top 6 languages, other than English, that are spoken in Loudon County:

Spanish
Vietnamese
German
Persian
French
Korean

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:
USC does not even make the top 100 among "unsafe campuses" in rankings of campus crime and safety. Meanwhile....

#2 Harvard
#[b]16 UPenn - Crappy West Philly neighborhood[/b]
#17 Brown - Providence - the armpit of New England
#18 Columbia - Harlem
#19 Stanford
#25 Yale - New Haven is a real sh*thole

More at: http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2010/09/14/most-dangerous-college-campuses-ranked.html

It's not the "campus"that's the problem, it's the neighborhood surrounding it. Stay on campus all the time and you're likely to be safe. If that's how you want to live.

[Anonymous]

O.K. So lawyer and uber-Mom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Are TJ students true outliers or average or above average students who are very good standardized test takers?

How can you get a good score if you don't know the test materials regardless you are a good test taker or not? Try to take SAT test without studied to see what you get.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:But, FYI, here are the top 6 languages, other than English, that are spoken in Loudon County:

Spanish
Vietnamese
German
Persian
French
Korean

There's a hell of a lot more Hindi being spoken in Loudoun these days than German or French.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The mother lists the daughter as one of her projects on her Linked In profile. No wonder the girl wants to leave home and start college early.

http://www.linkedin.com/in/christinaayiotis?_mSplash=1

You have way to much time on your hands. So, she is just another Washington area uber-Mom like the ones who troll this web forum.

Posters who are posting at 4:10 AM should not worry about people with too much time on their hands. Even if you are the LA poster, it would still be 1:10 AM!

[Anonymous]

I thought marshall sucked

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't get where people think that Fairfax County is some homogeneous white enclave. It is the largest jurisdiction - 1.2 million - and accounts for 20 percent of the total population of the Washington MSA. The county is 62% white, 17% Asian, 15% Hispanic and 9% black, with a smattering of other ethnicities rounding out the rest.

Over 100 different languages are spoken in Fairfax County, with the top 6 being:

1. Spanish
2. Korean
3. Vietnamese
4. Arabic
5. Urdu
6. Chinese/Mandarin

McLean is hardly representative of Fairfax County.

You mean English is no longer among the top six languages in Fairfax County? Wow. Definitely time to move to Loudoun.

62% white in Fairfax County is still far-and-away a white majority.

The Los Angeles demographics break down 39.7 % white (L.A. still has a lot of the old, multi-generation Angeleno, "Anglo" families with your California stereotype blue-eyes and sun-bleached blond hair), 38.1 % Latino, 13.6 % Asian, and 6.6% African American.

Also, Fairfax County segregates itself A LOT!

McLean, VA, is almost exclusively white and well off. Bailey's Crossroads has many Latinos. If you do not think that this segregation is purposeful and motivated by an inherent bias, please read these message boards more carefully when parents complain about certain school districts being overrun by the Latino immigrants, or about ESOL instruction.

Los Angeles is very ethnically and economically mixed throughout all of its neighborhoods, so that you do not have a majority caucasian school like Langley. Even L.A.'s traditional, old, waspy neighborhoods now have equally large populations of multi-generation, Angeleno Mexican and Chinese families.

Come spend some time out here, and then tell me that Fairfax County even begins to approximate the diversity and interactive mix of cultures that exists here in L.A. I have lived both places, and I love both Fairfax County and L.A., but it does not.