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[quote=confused-mum]OP Here - thank you. You are right, there is a lot of madness around TJ admissions specially with the AAP group of kids. Our kid is in the AAP Group but TJ is not our goal :) Thank you for the detailed reply.

[quote=Anonymous]Apparently PP did not have kids at Mosby Woods ES -- very diverse, not $$ oriented -- they feed into Oakton HS too!  I live close to Oakton HS although we are zoned for another school.  I've been to Oakton HS for some of their events.  Seems like a diverse group.  I've not noticed what PP says.  But, then again, I'm not in the part of Oakton to the west that is full of the estates and mansions.  I'm in the part of Vienna/Oakton that has lots of modest SFHs and THs -- that feed into OHS.  So, that's what I think of when I think of OHS.

OP -- we were looking in the Chantilly zone when we looked for a house.  It is a huge school (although that doesn't really distinguish it from OHS).  They have really high passrates on the AP tests -- may be the influence of the large Asian population there.  Anyway -- I did go to the curriculum night at Rocky Run.  It was literally like a stampede.  I thought my younger child might get crushed in the mass of people.... and then we were separated out into AAP chat and non-AAP chat --- hey!  where did all the crowds go?????  Very few people in the "non-AAP" course selection discussion.  We wrapped up and peaked into the gymnasium.... That's where the crowds were .... and they were still going strong with the discussion.  That give you a picture of what it's like at Rocky Run.  I think it is a good school, but it is over run by AAP kids ... and it is known as "little TJ" (at TJHSST).  These kids (most of them are Asian) are fighting to get into TJ.  If you have an AAP kid, it might be a good thing to be part of that crowd at Rocky Run.  If not, I don't know -- your kid may feel like a second class citizen in his/her own school.

Both Oakton HS and CHantilly will provide an excellent education.  Chantilly does have the STEM academy -- which looks like a real asset.  There are even internships with Lockheed (I think that is the one).  Oakton will be undergoing a renovation very soon.  It is severely over capacity (but it is slightly smaller than Chantilly in actual numbers -- last I looked).

One thing I didn't like about Oakton was the way the attendance zone was laid out, kids from the western end of the zone would have a difficult time driving to school on some of those very narrow/winding roads  ... OR you have to use 66 to get there.  That was a deal-breaker for me.  20+ min. to get to the high school on tight curving roads was a NO.  If you are looking to be closer to the actual school, then that wouldn't matter.  [/quote][/quote]

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