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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]

The Ivy League, Stanford, MIT, Duke and Berkeley are viewed as the golden ticket among students and top high schools in this region. UVA and William and Mary are very good schools and only academically successful students will typically gain admission to either.  I am personally aware of some cases where students have turned down Ivies like Brown and Cornell for Virginia schools, but students who are accepted, for example, to HYP or Stanford will generally find a way to go there.  They simply offer undergraduates greater opportunities  for learning and career development than any state school.[/quote]

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