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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here - if we want rigorous academics and good kids/ nice friends (and parents of course), incl. good sports, music, science, math etc. - will Westland and BCC qualify? We are international, educated family, with smart kid entering MS this Fall, but we are not rich/affluent in Bethesda-terms. So, I would feel more at ease with kid going to economically more diverse schools, as long as they are just as excellent as I hear Pyle/WW are. Kid is smart, but I don't think as driven as I hear those kids at WW are; neither am I as a parent. Any feedback? We are white if that matters.[/quote]

Lots of international families at BCC, likely b/c of the IB program and many of those kids go to university overseas so the college counseling office must (?) have some familiarity with that process. 
I have a hard time believing that Whitman is better just because of an invisible line that separates the boundaries for the school. There are just as many well educated, driven families in Eastern Bethesda/Chevy Chase as there are in Western Bethesda/Potomac.[/quote]

Agreed. There is more than enough opportunities to succeed at both Whitman and BCC. Highly doubt going to one over the other will change a kid’s college outcome. I’m the PP who went to Whitman, and I think that the diversity that schools like BCC, RM, and Blair provide are invaluable and I wish my own parents valued their diversity more than they valued making sure I would go to Whitman and only Whitman. Like many of these other posters, they chased after the “best of the best” schools.

I get why that “imaginary line” was so important to my parents and I have respect for the fact that they cared about my education. Likewise, I totally understand OP’s concern about what’s best for their child. However, Whitman is just one school in this state. There are plenty of other great schools in MCPS and Maryland that not only offer great academics and a great community, but also offer experiences you just won’t get at Whitman. I don’t think I’ll be able to afford to return to MoCo, but if I can, Blair/BCC/RM are going to be a first choice. In HoCo, we can probably afford River Hill and Marriotts Ridge HS, but we are eyeing Atholton and Hammond HS for similar reasons.

Besides diversity issues, there’s even the little things like having only Pyle feeding into Whitman. It made starting high school less exciting because I knew it would be all the same people from Pyle, whereas my BCC friends had numerous new friends to make from other feeder middle schools, and it also helps with “resetting” friend groups from middle school if middle school wasn’t the greatest for your kid (which it isn’t for most kids). [/quote]

Thank you for your feedback - it is very useful.[/quote]

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