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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid attended a bottom tier fcps school. The high achieving students got into good universities, probably the same ones they would have gotten into had they gone to Langley or Mclean. Maybe there would be more top 10 acceptances if there were more legacy applicants. Cannot complain. The kids that put in the work, did well. The majority of students at this school are first-gen/low income. A good number of those students will go to George Mason or NOVA. Some may say those are not great options, however, if your parents did not graduate from high school, then I would say fcps did not let them down.

“Best outcome” can be measured in many ways. I believe each student’s starting point should be taken into account as well. Is the better school the one that sends sons and daughters of Ivy grads to Ivy schools?  Or is the better school the one that sends sons and daughters of illiterate parents to George Mason?

Just my two cents. [/quote]

+100. Any FCPS school that manages to transform a kid with parents from a developing country into a first-gen college student has accomplished an impressive task. Most of the "worst" FCPS schools are doing this year after year with [b]thousands of first-gen kids getting into[/b] GMU, [b]VT, and UVA regularly[/b]. FCPS' success here is greatly underappreciated.[/quote]

Bit of hyperbole there.

It would be interesting if someone could develop a fair and objective way to rate schools based on the delta (exit performance vs. entrance performance), rather than the raw achievement.  [/quote]

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