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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Honestly, no. It doesn’t really matter the way people think it does.

AAP Level IV is the same across FCPS. Same curriculum, same eligibility, same expectations. It’s not “harder” or more impressive in McLean/Langley than in Vienna.

The bigger difference is parent culture, not academics. Some areas have more test prep and pressure, which makes it feel more competitive, but the instruction itself isn’t meaningfully different.

As for high school, Langley, McLean, Madison, and Oakton all send kids to top colleges every year. Colleges review students in the context of their own school, and being in AAP or a specific pyramid doesn’t give an edge on applications.

Bottom line: pick the area that works best for your family and your kid. From an AAP and college standpoint, they’re all excellent and essentially equivalent.[/quote]

All of the HSs in FCPS send kids to the top colleges. Langley, McLean, and Oakton send more but that is due to things like parents who can afford to pay for those colleges, parents who are aware of those colleges, and parents who have spent their lives making sure that their kids know that those are the colleges to aim for. Schools wiht higher FARMS rates send fewer kids because there have been fewer kids guided down the path needed to get into those colleges. The ones who go tend to be UMC families at that school, which was partially selected because there would be less competition applying from those schools. Welcome to Northern Virginia.[/quote]

Yeah, every school in FCPS has a group of parents and students who are focused on college applications. And yes, they generally tend to be educated parents who can afford enrichment so while their kid might be at a higher-FARMS school, they are the ones doing outside SAT classes and joining the private pools.[/quote]

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