Are there other benefits to living in McLean besides the excellent schools?

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Anonymous wrote:What are the kids like in these neighborhoods? Judging by the posts on this forum, McClean has some of the softest, scared parents of anywhere in the country. What are these kids being raised as? Will they be able to face any real life when they have to?

They’re awesome. Very well-mannered, athletic, kind, smart & organized. Kids take 10 or more AP classes throughout high school, manage the pressure of that workload very well and get 5s on all the exams. All get 1400+ SAT scores.

They all get their licenses as soon as they’re eligible too & are great drivers. All go away to college & graduate in 4 years or sooner.

Ok Tiger mom. Please be careful you're not raising resourceful psychopaths. I see the entitlement of the posters like this one that flows in everything they say, if that entitlement continues to grow in this next generation I fear for those who end up in college with them, who actually worked to get there and weren't just coddled by mom here all the way, scheduling for them, mapping it all out for them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are the kids like in these neighborhoods? Judging by the posts on this forum, McClean has some of the softest, scared parents of anywhere in the country. What are these kids being raised as? Will they be able to face any real life when they have to?

They’re awesome. Very well-mannered, athletic, kind, smart & organized. Kids take 10 or more AP classes throughout high school, manage the pressure of that workload very well and get 5s on all the exams. All get 1400+ SAT scores.

They all get their licenses as soon as they’re eligible too & are great drivers. All go away to college & graduate in 4 years or sooner.

Ok Tiger mom. Please be careful you're not raising resourceful psychopaths. I see the entitlement of the posters like this one that flows in everything they say, if that entitlement continues to grow in this next generation I fear for those who end up in college with them, who actually worked to get there and weren't just coddled by mom here all the way, scheduling for them, mapping it all out for them.

Are you a total imbecile, or are you just aiming for some advanced version of satire that purports to take an obviously sarcastic post at face value merely for the purpose of feigning further outrage? If the former, my sympathies; if the latter, well played but probably not worth the effort.

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Anonymous wrote:I commute to dc once a week and live in central mclean. It’s still 50 minutes each way leaving at 8am taking GW parkway. 35 with no traffic.

I guess that’s better than what it would be from outside the beltway.

I was wondering why people are claiming a short commute.

we get to DC jobs in 17 minutes.

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I wouldn't necessarily move to McLean for the schools. A lot harder to get accepted into AAP there than from other parts of the county.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't necessarily move to McLean for the schools. A lot harder to get accepted into AAP there than from other parts of the county.

You move to McLean so you don’t have to rely on AAP.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't necessarily move to McLean for the schools. A lot harder to get accepted into AAP there than from other parts of the county.

And much harder to get into UVA and other selective colleges.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't necessarily move to McLean for the schools. A lot harder to get accepted into AAP there than from other parts of the county.

You move to McLean so you don’t have to rely on AAP.

This. There is not much difference between AAP and Gen Ed in McLean schools.

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Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't necessarily move to McLean for the schools. A lot harder to get accepted into AAP there than from other parts of the county.

And much harder to get into UVA and other selective colleges.

Suburban legend? McLean HS has a lot of kids going to UVA and W&M this year, and at least 10 going to Ivies plus MIT. Some of the other schools (including Duke, Georgetown, Chicago, Hopkins, Michigan, West Point, Amherst, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Haverford, McGill, USC, Macalester, Wake Forest, Tufts) look pretty impressive, too.

[Anonymous]

When you have the wealth to afford McLean you’re not stuck with in state schools like UVA. You apply to other, better located schools that aren’t in middle of nowhere Charlottesville.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wouldn't necessarily move to McLean for the schools. A lot harder to get accepted into AAP there than from other parts of the county.

And much harder to get into UVA and other selective colleges.

Suburban legend? McLean HS has a lot of kids going to UVA and W&M this year, and at least 10 going to Ivies plus MIT. Some of the other schools (including Duke, Georgetown, Chicago, Hopkins, Michigan, West Point, Amherst, Wellesley, Wesleyan, Haverford, McGill, USC, Macalester, Wake Forest, Tufts) look pretty impressive, too.

And the other point, more important for some, is that wherever they go kids coming out of Langley and McLean are going to be well prepared.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When you have the wealth to afford McLean you’re not stuck with in state schools like UVA. You apply to other, better located schools that aren’t in middle of nowhere Charlottesville.

Sad little troll boy came to play.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I commute to dc once a week and live in central mclean. It’s still 50 minutes each way leaving at 8am taking GW parkway. 35 with no traffic.

I guess that’s better than what it would be from outside the beltway.

I was wondering why people are claiming a short commute.

we get to DC jobs in 17 minutes.

Where in McLean to where in dc and time of day determines the time it takes.

Chain bridge forest to Georgetown is 15 min right now.

If you’re driving over from Spring Hill to u st, it’s going to take a bit longer.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:When you have the wealth to afford McLean you’re not stuck with in state schools like UVA. You apply to other, better located schools that aren’t in middle of nowhere Charlottesville.

Sad little troll boy came to play.

It’s ok to be jelly. 😂

[Anonymous]

Close to downtown DC, K Street, WH. Green and leafy. Well kept. Polite neighbors.

Not sure why this is a difficult question for some.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What are the kids like in these neighborhoods? Judging by the posts on this forum, McClean has some of the softest, scared parents of anywhere in the country. What are these kids being raised as? Will they be able to face any real life when they have to?

They’re awesome. Very well-mannered, athletic, kind, smart & organized. Kids take 10 or more AP classes throughout high school, manage the pressure of that workload very well and get 5s on all the exams. All get 1400+ SAT scores.

They all get their licenses as soon as they’re eligible too & are great drivers. All go away to college & graduate in 4 years or sooner.

Oh shut up. Langley and McLean are full of some of the softest baby like kids on the planet. I went to Potomac and we would regularly rob kids from Langley for fun (and drugs) — this was a multi year tradition. In addition, during my years Langley had multiple suicide attempts, which is the epitome of soft if you are a kid living in a rich area.

Then when I got to UVA, the Langley kids were all weird and had issues. My fraternity automatically blackballed anyone from Langley.

Potomac is a private school.. Were you an underprivileged kid from the inner city or something that Langley kids looked "soft" to you compared with what? Kids living in lavish multi-million dollar mcMansions or real Mansions 10m+? Yeah, makes sense I am not familiar with this dynamic as I am not from here, but knowing Langley is a public school and Potomac is a private one in an expensive hood, your story is hard to buy.