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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Fairfax county high schools are all diverse,

Every single one

People just like to complain [/quote]

I used to live in Alexandria and now live in McLean. Both schools are incredibly diverse, just in different ways. Our school in Alexandria had a large Spanish speaking population and our McLean school has more Asians and Middle Eastern students.[/quote]

Langley has next to no economic diversity. Chantilly does, as does every other high school in FCPS besides Langley. [/quote]

OP, look at the college acceptances from Langley.  Colleges tend to think "the rich white folk" will do well in life, no mater what, "no need to take m/any of them!"

Chantilly gets my vote. [/quote]

THIS. THIS.THIS.  It’s especially hard if you’re not super wealthy because colleges assume you have lots of money and connections.  A lot of people in McLean are living completely boring - and not at all luxurious lives - to pay the mortgage on an out of date little house. But for college, they are compared against the kids who spend $25,000 on private athletic coaching, $6,000 on test prep, and four years of private tutors because they share the same zip code. [/quote]

So much misinformation. There are plenty of good college acceptances at both Langley and McLean and they are not all the rich kids.

I do agree that OP should not stretch their budget just to pay their mortgage in McLean but your analysis of McLean is just ridiculously wrong.[/quote]

Colleges compare kids to their classmates. Colleges know which zip codes are rich.  It doesn’t matter if you’re scraping by in McLean, you are compared to the kids who are truly wealthy and have all the perks your kid doesn’t have.  Drive through the student parking lot and count the Teslas, Audis, and Mercedes.  When those kids need private coaching, tutoring, or test prep to get a high score or excel in a sport, they get it.  And it costs thousands. Sports alone can be tens of thousands a year.  You’re kidding yourself if you think your UMC kids’ acceptances wouldn’t be better in a more economically diverse school. [/quote]

If this resonated at all, there'd be a lot more families slumming in poorer zip codes to give their kids a boost when it comes to college admissions.

But it doesn't.  Feel free to compare college admissions from Langley with those from Annandale and Mount Vernon and see who is getting into better schools.

And parents know that, in the long run, their kids will do better if they attend high school with kids more likely to be up for academic challenges rather than kids in need of frequent remediation.  You have to look not only at how the "same kid" would fare applying from two different areas, but also whether your kid will end up progressing as much and presenting as favorably if they attend less challenging schools with lower expectations.

That's not to say Chantilly isn't a great school, but your anecdotes - including the oft-repeated but false trope about Langley's student parking lot being full of Teslas, Audis, and Mercedes - indicate that you traffic in suburban myths and can't be taken seriously.  [/quote]

Well said.  So sick of these twits pretending to know anything at all about schools their kids don’t attend.[/quote]

This “twit” drives through that parking lot twice a day. Nice meet you.  Langley is a great school but there’s no secret sauce there besides how many families have money. What’s weird is those of you who want to pretend that one Fairfax County school could be “superior” for any other reason.  
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Hmm.  Who said it was "superior"?  We're allowed to say what we value in our schools.  And if you really drove through that parking lot twice a day - or even once a day - you would know that your gross exaggeration about the cars is extremely transparent.  Some parents might be driving luxury cars, but to say they're in the student lot is ridiculous.[/quote]

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