Best HS in MoCo

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Anonymous wrote:Look into Einstein. It's been on a very strong upward trajectory while the other schools have been losing ground

Please don't believe this poster. Einstein was one of the deeply problematic school in previous years. Just because it's getting slightly better doesn't mean that it's ***anywhere close*** to the excellent high schools discussed on this thread.

Don't listen to this poster. Every kid we know there is very happy and they have a really good music program. People are anti schools that have diversity in terms of race and academic skills.

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Anonymous wrote:Look into Einstein. It's been on a very strong upward trajectory while the other schools have been losing ground

Please don't believe this poster. Einstein was one of the deeply problematic school in previous years. Just because it's getting slightly better doesn't mean that it's ***anywhere close*** to the excellent high schools discussed on this thread.

To clarify: the "deeply problematic" part of Einstein HS, for this PP, is that the student population includes a lot of kids who are Latino.

Yep. Same reason lots of posters on this forum talk about how QOHS is "mediocre." They mean it has 20% FARMS kids, as opposed to Whitman, Wootton, and Churchill, which have 5% or less.

And similar to the reason lots of posters on this forum say that Quince Orchard High School is better than Northwest High School. They mean that Quince Orchard has 40% white kids, as opposed to Northwest, which has 28%.

nw and QO literally perform the same on paper

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Anonymous wrote:Look into Einstein. It's been on a very strong upward trajectory while the other schools have been losing ground

Please don't believe this poster. Einstein was one of the deeply problematic school in previous years. Just because it's getting slightly better doesn't mean that it's ***anywhere close*** to the excellent high schools discussed on this thread.

To clarify: the "deeply problematic" part of Einstein HS, for this PP, is that the student population includes a lot of kids who are Latino.

Yep. Same reason lots of posters on this forum talk about how QOHS is "mediocre." They mean it has 20% FARMS kids, as opposed to Whitman, Wootton, and Churchill, which have 5% or less.

And similar to the reason lots of posters on this forum say that Quince Orchard High School is better than Northwest High School. They mean that Quince Orchard has 40% white kids, as opposed to Northwest, which has 28%.

nw and QO literally perform the same on paper

And QO and Churchill are tied on USNWR.

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Anonymous wrote:Look into Einstein. It's been on a very strong upward trajectory while the other schools have been losing ground

Please don't believe this poster. Einstein was one of the deeply problematic school in previous years. Just because it's getting slightly better doesn't mean that it's ***anywhere close*** to the excellent high schools discussed on this thread.

To clarify: the "deeply problematic" part of Einstein HS, for this PP, is that the student population includes a lot of kids who are Latino.

Yep. Same reason lots of posters on this forum talk about how QOHS is "mediocre." They mean it has 20% FARMS kids, as opposed to Whitman, Wootton, and Churchill, which have 5% or less.

And similar to the reason lots of posters on this forum say that Quince Orchard High School is better than Northwest High School. They mean that Quince Orchard has 40% white kids, as opposed to Northwest, which has 28%.

nw and QO literally perform the same on paper

And QO and Churchill are tied on USNWR.

College acceptances at the two schools are not the same.

If you are moving here for the schools W schools or Richard Montgomery. It's not that the other schools are bad it's that you get one chance to educate your children. These are better. They all have hyper competitive parents socially and academically.

OP do your own research on this forum you are going to get biased opinions.

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Whitman is the best academically but I prefer Walter Johnson which is nearly as good, offers courses that are more in line with what my kids wish to study, and is a little more diverse. BCC is on par with Walter Johnson, but less AP classes because of their IB program, so not what we want.

You really need to look at the course and club offerings, OP. The 3 I mentioned here are the best high schools in the county but have different vibes and classes.

Who would choose a school that is not quite as good for more diversity? What does that fractionally more diverse environment award your kid in practical terms, for attending it? Well, absolutely nothing.

Defining "good school" as "school with a high school-average scores on standardized tests" is so weird, but less weird than defining "good school" as "school attended by very few kids from low-income families", I guess.

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And QO and Churchill are tied on USNWR.

College acceptances at the two schools are not the same.

If you are moving here for the schools W schools or Richard Montgomery. It's not that the other schools are bad it's that you get one chance to educate your children. These are better. They all have hyper competitive parents socially and academically.

OP do your own research on this forum you are going to get biased opinions.

Is Kid A more likely to go to Harvard if they go to Churchill HS than if they go to Quince Orchard HS? Really?

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Op, this thread is so typical of MoCo parents. Welcome if you still plan to come to this land of crazies.

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Whitman is the best academically but I prefer Walter Johnson which is nearly as good, offers courses that are more in line with what my kids wish to study, and is a little more diverse. BCC is on par with Walter Johnson, but less AP classes because of their IB program, so not what we want.

You really need to look at the course and club offerings, OP. The 3 I mentioned here are the best high schools in the county but have different vibes and classes.

Who would choose a school that is not quite as good for more diversity? What does that fractionally more diverse environment award your kid in practical terms, for attending it? Well, absolutely nothing.

PP you replied to.

We are not wealthy, white or American, so we feel a little more at home at WJ, and academically there isn't a great difference. If there had been, we would obviously have gone with the best school.

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And QO and Churchill are tied on USNWR.

College acceptances at the two schools are not the same.

If you are moving here for the schools W schools or Richard Montgomery. It's not that the other schools are bad it's that you get one chance to educate your children. These are better. They all have hyper competitive parents socially and academically.

OP do your own research on this forum you are going to get biased opinions.

Is Kid A more likely to go to Harvard if they go to Churchill HS than if they go to Quince Orchard HS? Really?

Not in the least, but they’d love for you to think so.

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Anonymous wrote:Op, this thread is so typical of MoCo parents. Welcome if you still plan to come to this land of crazies.

Yup. Lord help them if they admit QO, as a school with some diversity, could be as good as their lily white schools.

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Anonymous wrote:How many students complete the IB program at RM including those who opt in in 11th and 12th?

Not too many kids join in 11th grade. It's like jumping on to moving train

I think it's like 50 or so, some years less.

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Anonymous wrote:Whitman hands down. Sorry folks, not wanting to cause a riot but you know its true.

Best options - look at the academics offered, in the sciences there's the possibility of taking a bio-medicine track

in the languages they have the most options in the county

and the best outcomes in terms of grads going onto top colleges (there is a list printed every year and its usually linked by someone in the colleges thread).

If I look purely at courses offered, then I would pick RM and join the IB program in 11th grade. But, almost all the HS have some kind of program and classes that are unique to it.

No.. best college outcome is not Whitman.

Can't speak to the language options.

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Anonymous wrote:Op, this thread is so typical of MoCo parents. Welcome if you still plan to come to this land of crazies.

Yup. Lord help them if they admit QO, as a school with some diversity, could be as good as their lily white schools.

The W schools are not "lily white". They are upper middle class, economically not as diverse as QO. They are diverse, just not white and African American only which is what you are insinuating.

QO has lots of sports participation. It does not have as many students going to Ivy league colleges as the W schools or Richard Montgomery.

Can it be a great education? Yes, of course.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Op, this thread is so typical of MoCo parents. Welcome if you still plan to come to this land of crazies.

Yup. Lord help them if they admit QO, as a school with some diversity, could be as good as their lily white schools.

The W schools are not "lily white". They are upper middle class, economically not as diverse as QO. They are diverse, just not white and African American only which is what you are insinuating.

QO has lots of sports participation. It does not have as many students going to Ivy league colleges as the W schools or Richard Montgomery.

Can it be a great education? Yes, of course.

Newsflash: Ivy League attendance isn’t a measure of whether a HS is good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Look into Einstein. It's been on a very strong upward trajectory while the other schools have been losing ground

What?! Einstein was just in the news.