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[quote=Anonymous]So should we move to Langley or McLean or stay in Westfield or Chantilly district if we want to get into the better colleges?  (Since TJ admissions has changed, the aim-for-TJ plan is a toss-up and it might change completely in 4 years as a ranking school etc...).

If your kid is a TJ-type student (i.e. AAP, good student, taken the top-level courses so far up to middle school), and you are UMC and can afford to move anywhere in the county, what is the best approach for college admissions?

If your kid takes a bunch of AP courses in high school and scores well, is a 5 on an AP exam and an equiv GPA in the course from Langley worth something more for UVA or Ivies or good colleges than the same thing from Westfield or Chantilly?  Do the colleges lump all the FCPS schools in the same bucket or do they make distinctions based on the average SAT scores or USNWR high school ranking for that school?

What do you think is the best optimal strategy from the school choice point of view?

(Of course, for Ivies etc... is is national-level performance or life stories or hooks etc... that ultimately count but these factors are orthogonal to the school choice in the same FCPS district so I am not counting these for the comparison.)

What do you think?
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