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

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Anonymous wrote:I thought marshall sucked

a lot of lemmings incapable of original though do

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i mean, "thought."

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It's a solid school. US News has it ranked as the 12th best in Fairfax County.

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http://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia/rankings?int=c0b4c1

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I think the young lady should have participated in sports and done some community service. She doesn't mention those things.
What's so good about going to college at 16 anyway?

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Anonymous wrote:You can look at McLean census tracts on this tool:

http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer

The Chesterbrook area near Arlington is almost 90% white, but at least one other section of McLean has close to 40% minority residents. It is indeed affluent, but it is more ethnically diverse than you implied, particularly when you consider that quite a few residents identified as white are Middle Eastern origins. It's certainly not like some town in the Midwest where almost everyone is white and has ancestors who have lived in the same town for generations.

The lowest concentration of Caucasians in the McLean census tract is in an area of 6,000 people, where the white residents make up only 53% of the total. In every other tract of the McLean census, whites make up from 70-90+ % of the residents in the area.

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Anonymous wrote:

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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.

I don't know when you moved to LA, but you are mistaken if you believe McLean is "almost exclusively white." It has a substantial Asian population and some parts of McLean have up to a 40% minority population. In general, Asians do not appreciate being characterized or treated as "white." I don't think there's any doubt but that some whites and Asians prefer to live in areas with fewer Hispanics and blacks. Maybe many parts of LA areas are more integrated, but I'd bet the "well off" in those areas are more likely to send their kids to private schools than people in NoVa. In either case, the neighborhoods around USC are likely to be a new experience for a 16 or 17-year-old girl raised in NoVa, so I can understand why some posters might have reservations about sending their own kids off to USC at a young age.

I lived in McLean for over a decade, and left the area a year ago. I would love to see the demographics that demonstrate that McLean is not "almost exclusively white". Could you provide a demographic breakdown of the area? It is undoubtedly almost exclusively affluent.

Could you do us all a favor and just LEAVE? No one wants to hear your anti fairfax pro LA rant. Not accurate eirther. Look up it says DC...we don't care what you think.

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LA poster --what century are you living in? If you lived in the DC area, and all the suburbs Virginia included, you would know that it is very mixed all over. Perhaps back in the 1950s it was all white, but that was long ago. Are you OLD?

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Anonymous wrote:LA poster --what century are you living in? If you lived in the DC area, and all the suburbs Virginia included, you would know that it is very mixed all over. Perhaps back in the 1950s it was all white, but that was long ago. Are you OLD?

Great, I am so happy to hear that the residents of McLean in particular are so diverse and progressive.
I will copy your positive thread the next time I read an "ugly" Fairfax County public schools post complaining about the children of immigrants, particularly Latino immmigrants, crowding your schools, needing extra classroom time or support, living multiple families to a home.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can look at McLean census tracts on this tool:

http://projects.nytimes.com/census/2010/explorer

The Chesterbrook area near Arlington is almost 90% white, but at least one other section of McLean has close to 40% minority residents. It is indeed affluent, but it is more ethnically diverse than you implied, particularly when you consider that quite a few residents identified as white are Middle Eastern origins. It's certainly not like some town in the Midwest where almost everyone is white and has ancestors who have lived in the same town for generations.

The lowest concentration of Caucasians in the McLean census tract is in an area of 6,000 people, where the white residents make up only 53% of the total. In every other tract of the McLean census, whites make up from 70-90+ % of the residents in the area.

Um, OK. So if you were the poster who said McLean was "almost exclusively white," you were wrong.

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Anonymous wrote:LA poster --what century are you living in? If you lived in the DC area, and all the suburbs Virginia included, you would know that it is very mixed all over. Perhaps back in the 1950s it was all white, but that was long ago. Are you OLD?

Great, I am so happy to hear that the residents of McLean in particular are so diverse and progressive.
I will copy your positive thread the next time I read an "ugly" Fairfax County public schools post complaining about the children of immigrants, particularly Latino immmigrants, crowding your schools, needing extra classroom time or support, living multiple families to a home.

LA is diverse and has lots arts and music - so going to USC in South Central is safe? Um... o.k.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:LA poster --what century are you living in? If you lived in the DC area, and all the suburbs Virginia included, you would know that it is very mixed all over. Perhaps back in the 1950s it was all white, but that was long ago. Are you OLD?

Great, I am so happy to hear that the residents of McLean in particular are so diverse and progressive.
I will copy your positive thread the next time I read an "ugly" Fairfax County public schools post complaining about the children of immigrants, particularly Latino immmigrants, crowding your schools, needing extra classroom time or support, living multiple families to a home.

LA is diverse and has lots arts and music - so going to USC in South Central is safe? Um... o.k.

I'm not the LA poster but I was at USC for an event three weeks ago. After the new light rail stations opened next to campus, and after a number of violent gang attacks on USC students, the school put up an impenetrable fence around the perimeter of the entire campus. The gates close at 7PM, after which only one highly secured entrance is open. The surrounding neighborhood is very, very dangerous but USC itself is now safe, and the school is a couple miles south of downtown which is becoming a world class destination for restaurants and the arts. In fact, many USC students live downtown in loft apartments, which is much safer than living off campus near USC.

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Is the last post for real? Makes South Central LA sound like a favela, which maybe it is.

Irony is that the girl probably could go to George Mason with dozens of her Marshall classmates and get as good an education as at USC.

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Anonymous wrote:Is the last post for real? Makes South Central LA sound like a favela, which maybe it is.

Irony is that the girl probably could go to George Mason with dozens of her Marshall classmates and get as good an education as at USC.

This is a story from January -- sounds like the PP's description is spot on:

http://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/USC-to-Become-Closed-Campus-at-Night-185970282.html


And I agree with your comment that the girl could have had other options. But USC is the option she chose. (Or perhaps her mother chose for her?)

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Anonymous wrote:Is the last post for real? Makes South Central LA sound like a favela, which maybe it is.

Irony is that the girl probably could go to George Mason with dozens of her Marshall classmates and get as good an education as at USC.

Just do a web search for USC fence. They were installed this winter after a number of attacks on USC students. South LA is still extremely dangerous, but arguably not as bad as twenty years ago. Like DC, violent crime in LA has reached a 50 year low.