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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Let me get this straight. You think that having lots of kids from a high school apply to the Ivy League is a good barometer for whether the school has smart, motivated, and achieving kids? That thinking simply does not apply in Northern Virginia.  Here, the University of Virginia and the College of William and Mary are so good, so competitive in admissions and so cost effective that they are perceived as the golden tickets around here, not the Ivy League.  And as many students from West Potomac aim for and apply there as any other Fairfax county public high school.

Plus, I have to say, it is worrisome that as a parent of a first grader this is on your mind. I worry about your first grader.[/quote]

Op here: I guess I am a planner. I just want to buy a house in a school district that would be a good fit for my kids. Also, I am a product of a pwc public high school and went to one of these golden ticket state schools. I felt unprepared compared to my college classmates - I had become a smaller fish in a bigger pond and didn't know it until much later. I don't want that happening to my kids.

Thank you for all the replies. [/quote]

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