I live in a great public school district but my wife wants to explore St Albans for my son...

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I suspect that PP is not talking Langley or even mclean. Several FCPS high schools are more diverse.

Good guess!

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To answer your question, I moved my DC from a "Big 3" to the FCPS AAP program. We found it to be more academically aggressive, although be prepared because the application process to killer in comparison to the private school process.

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Anonymous wrote:That's like deciding between a Chevy and a Mercedes. Both are cars and both ultimately will get you where you want to go. It's a question of whether you think all the extras are worth the cost. Personally I do.

OP, the question is, do you want to send your child to a school where people think that the public high school in McLean is a Chevrolet and St. Albans is a Mercedes worth an extra $40,000 per year?

+1. PP who graduated from a FCPS HS and has since gone on to multiple Ivies and a career surrounded by mostly wealthy people. I would never trade the chance to have been around a more diverse group of people at the public HS in my teens.

I'm sure OP's kid will do fine either way. If he ends up at St. A's, he'll still find out later that there are situations where public school kids kick his butt, just lik

e Ivy grads find out where graduates of lesser known (and, gasp, public) institutions are concerned.

This hasn't been the reality I experienced. Went to a top public outside this area (which also wasn't very diverse), then a top private college, ivy league law school, and top 10 Biglaw. The number of people I saw from top public institutions got smaller and smaller along the way. Not to say that there aren't brilliant people at lesser known public colleges, but we still live in a society where alumni of private elite institutions (and the so-called public ivies) dominate the upper middle class. Maybe it isn't the way it should be, but it is still largely the way it is.

Sounds like you're talking about public vs. private university grads. That's a while 'nother debate.

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This hasn't been the reality I experienced. Went to a top public outside this area (which also wasn't very diverse), then a top private college, ivy league law school, and top 10 Biglaw. The number of people I saw from top public institutions got smaller and smaller along the way. Not to say that there aren't brilliant people at lesser known public colleges, but we still live in a society where alumni of private elite institutions (and the so-called public ivies) dominate the upper middle class. Maybe it isn't the way it should be, but it is still largely the way it is.

Them that has, gets.

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It is always interesting how parents of public school kids get so defensive when this topic comes out.

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Anonymous wrote:It is always interesting how parents of public school kids get so defensive when this topic comes out.

Which posts were defensive, and how do you know that they came from the parents of public school kids?

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Which posts were defensive, and how do you know that they came from the parents of public school kids?

+1.

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I went from private to public and found the public to be a better education. I wouldn't privately educate if my local public schools are solid. Sounds like a lot of trouble. I would maybe look into boarding school but not a local school in DC.

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This hasn't been the reality I experienced. Went to a top public outside this area (which also wasn't very diverse), then a top private college, ivy league law school, and top 10 Biglaw. The nuumber of people I saw from top public institutions got smaller and smaller along the way. Not to say that there aren't brilliant people at lesser known public colleges, but we still live in a society where alumni of private elite institutions (and the so-called public ivies) dominate the upper middle class. Maybe it isn't the way it should be, but it is still largely the way it is.

Them that has, gets.

I simply haven't experienced this.

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This hasn't been the reality I experienced. Went to a top public outside this area (which also wasn't very diverse), then a top private college, ivy league law school, and top 10 Biglaw. The nuumber of people I saw from top public institutions got smaller and smaller along the way. Not to say that there aren't brilliant people at lesser known public colleges, but we still live in a society where alumni of private elite institutions (and the so-called public ivies) dominate the upper middle class. Maybe it isn't the way it should be, but it is still largely the way it is.

Them that has, gets.

I simply haven't experienced this.

Where do you live? I want to move there.

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This hasn't been the reality I experienced. Went to a top public outside this area (which also wasn't very diverse), then a top private college, ivy league law school, and top 10 Biglaw. The nuumber of people I saw from top public institutions got smaller and smaller along the way. Not to say that there aren't brilliant people at lesser known public colleges, but we still live in a society where alumni of private elite institutions (and the so-called public ivies) dominate the upper middle class. Maybe it isn't the way it should be, but it is still largely the way it is.

Them that has, gets.

I simply haven't experienced this.

DC. Even when I worked on wall street no one talked about where they went to school. Seemed like a lot of the analysts were first generation.

Where do you live? I want to move there.

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This hasn't been the reality I experienced. Went to a top public outside this area (which also wasn't very diverse), then a top private college, ivy league law school, and top 10 Biglaw. The nuumber of people I saw from top public institutions got smaller and smaller along the way. Not to say that there aren't brilliant people at lesser known public colleges, but we still live in a society where alumni of private elite institutions (and the so-called public ivies) dominate the upper middle class. Maybe it isn't the way it should be, but it is still largely the way it is.

Them that has, gets.

I simply haven't experienced this.

Where do you live? I want to move there.

DC. Even when I worked on wall street no one talked about where they went to school. Seemed like a lot of the analysts were first generation.

Oh, then I misunderstood. I apologize! Where I want to move to is a place where "them that has, gets" isn't true.