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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]An advanced student at Langley (one who takes all Honors and AP classes) will have the exact same outcome as an advanced student at Falls Church and Justice. In fact, the FC/Justice kid may have more of a benefit at local universities.[/quote]

I suppose you can make this statement if you make a lot of assumptions, but objectively Langley has a lot more students every year with impressive “outcomes” than Justice or Falls Church.

Langley will typically have 12-15 National Merit Semifinalists every year and a large number of kids going to T25 schools.  Falls Church and Justice rarely have any NMSFs and the college admissions are not as strong (although there have been years where a fair number of Justice kids got into UVA).  [/quote]

But this is the point, PP.
At Langley if this is your kid—he’s a dime a dozen. When a university looks at application, he’s “just another one of those Langley National Merit kids” But at Justice, he stands out among the applicants.

UPenn and Brown can’t take 14 national merit kids from the same high school! It doesn’t look right. 
But they might take two from Langley and one from Justice! And if that one were YOUR kid, well then aren’t you glad he’s the obvious choice rather than crossing your fingers hoping that your kid is one of the 14 admitted?
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The odds that a kid is going to progress through the Justice pyramid, where the main focus is on getting ESOL and FARMS kids to pass their SOLs, end up a NMSF, and get into Penn or Brown are very small.  It happens occasionally, but in general you just end up with smaller fish in a smaller pond.

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