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[quote=Anonymous][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 other "advantage" a student will have at Lewis or Justice or Mount Vernon - more opportunities to participate in the activities such as sports and clubs and hold leadership positions.

I've heard that sports like golf, tennis, swimming, lacrosse are cut sports at Langley and at many of the other high SES high schools in the county.  Not at Mount Vernon or Lewis - there was a recent thread on DCUM on Lewis not having a baseball team because they don't have enough students to even try out for the team.  My children attend Mount Vernon HS.  My DS had never played a round of golf in his entire life but joined the golf team as a freshman and by senior year was the #1 golfer on the team and a decent golfer.   I've known multiple kids who have switched sports - freshman year they play basketball in the winter.  Then sophomore year they join the swim team.  I've known students who joined a sport for the first time their senior year - the boy's lacrosse team was full of guys who had never played lacrosse before high school.  I've also known kids who have done two sports in the SAME season.  Football and golf.  Swim and basketball.  Cross country and field hockey.  Indoor track and swim.  I don't think students are getting those opportunities at Langley.
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Please tell us more about these multi-sport unicorns. This only happens because the majority of kids at the school are disinterested, checked out, or working part-time jobs that make it difficult or impossible to do other activities. That may make it easier for another kid to make the golf team with no prior experience. It doesn’t necessarily make for a more stimulating academic environment. [/quote]

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