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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I grew up in moco and live in Va now. There is. No question, Churchill. However, the in state college options in VA are one million times better than in Maryland. Taxes are a lot lower in Va too. Choose wisely. Marshall is a fine school. [/quote]

If we are just comparing churchill to Marshall and not worrying about colleges or taxes, Churchill wins? Isn't it significantly more stressful and more grindy?[/quote]

Churchill, hands down. It’s a great school with strong academics, tons of school spirit, and great sports. The community is super active and full of smart, well-rounded kids. Sure, there’s plenty of wealth, but most of the kids are just genuinely good. For some kids, it might feel a bit stressful at times, but it’s not one of those pressure-cooker schools where every kid is expected to chase after straight A’s and load up on APs.[/quote]

what schools , in comparison, are the pressure-cookers?  Also are there any classes at Churchill where kids can work on long-format research and paper-writing? Or does one have to do summer school somewhere for that?[/quote]

Theoretically, there's a two-year AP sequence that involves a major research project (AP research and AP seminar).  I don't know the details, though.

If the child is URM, search this forum for URM and Churchill.  Nothing alarming will come up and the environment isn't terrible.  But it's heavily a white/Asian (and wealthy) demographic and so the URM cohort is pretty small if that matters to you.

I don't know the meaning of pressure cooker exactly, but I would say that there is an arm's race regarding how many AP classes kids take.  I try to discourage my kids from so many APs and they reject my advice because "everybody else" is taking almost all APs and they don't want to look worse than those classmates when it comes to college admissions. (And I'm serious when I say almost all APs... my youngest is a rising junior and has only one course on the schedule that isn't AP and it's an advanced art class.)   Frankly, although my kids generally do well in APs, they would be better off at a school that somehow capped the # of APs kids are allowed to take per semester.  [/quote]

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