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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not a coincidence that each of Langley and McLean has more National Merit Semifinalists this year than all four of the high schools in APS combined. If you want a more challenging pyramid (and many in APS don’t), that is where you should go. [/quote]

Yeah, this definitely has nothing to do with the average household income of McLean vs Arlington/SES/demographics.🙄 I’m not saying that accounts for all of the difference, but it’s not insignificant. [/quote]
Yorktown is very high SES but it has only a handful of NMSF semifinalists. If your hypothesis is right it should be like Mclean [/quote]

Not a direct comparison because of APS's option program. The top kids transfer to WL for IB [/quote]

More Langley and McLean kids place to TJ than Yorktown kids transfer to W-L, no?  PP is right - North Arlington has similar demographics to McLean in terms of income. The difference is the schools (and as noted many in APS prefer that system over the greater differentiation in FCPS).  But unless OP wants to go private it sounds like she’d be happier in the Langley or McLean pyramids. [/quote]

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