I really hate to break to you all but the "W" schools are just big public schools with large class sizes and a lot of rich kids.

Anonymous wrote:WJ is a little bit more diverse than the other W schools (not counting BCC the honorary W), a little bit less of a pressure cooker, yet still full of high-achieving kids.

I'm a WJ parent and from what I've observed WJ parents are probably not as hard-core as Whitman or Churchill parents. We chose the WJ catchment area for this very reason.

My kid is a 10th grader and I've been impressed by all of her teachers. He is in the APEX program, which means a high-achieving cohort.

Since when did Cornell become less prestigious than Brown? None of this matters anyway - everyone knows that the top Ivies that really matter are HYP. The rest are safeties for those

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Anonymous wrote:Is Walter Johnson the Cornell of the “W schools?”

Meaning, is it the least prestigious and some argue not even worthy of the “W School” title? Or is it excellent? I ask this because I have been hearing conflicting thoughts on this.

Anyone with direct experience with the school?

That's silly, OP. Obviously Walter Johnson is the Dartmouth of the "W Schools." Or maybe the Penn of the "W Schools"?

Plus, where would the prestigiousness of these public MCPS high schools come from anyway? The prestige of having parents who reside in Bethesda or Potomac?

Isn’t WJ in Rockville or North Bethesda? Very different than Bethesda or Potomac.

Wootton is in Rockville. So what of it?

Yes, Wootton is unarguably in Rockville - within the boundaries of the incorporated municipality of Rockville. So unprestigious!

And Churchill starts with a C, not a W. Also unprestigious. I have never heard anybody refer to "Winston Churchill" High School the way everyone refers to "Walter Johnson" High School. Also, before Churchill was Churchill, it was Potomac High School, which starts with a P, not a W.

And Walter Johnson is in North Bethesda, according to the U.S. Census, although I personally think that south of 270 it's Bethesda, not North Bethesda. Also unprestigious!

So that just leaves Whitman, which is actually a Double W school (Walt Whitman), but I don't know why a school named after a poet would be more prestigious than a school named after a physicist, a pitcher, a pianist, a president, a prime minister, a patriot, a physician, or a plantation owner. Which, actually, why don't we refer to the P schools in MCPS? P for prestige, of course.

WJ is a little bit more diverse than the other W schools (not counting BCC the honorary W), a little bit less of a pressure cooker, yet still full of high-achieving kids.

I'm a WJ parent and from what I've observed WJ parents are probably not as hard-core as Whitman or Churchill parents. We chose the WJ catchment area for this very reason.

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Anonymous wrote:Is Walter Johnson the Cornell of the “W schools?”

Meaning, is it the least prestigious and some argue not even worthy of the “W School” title? Or is it excellent? I ask this because I have been hearing conflicting thoughts on this.

Anyone with direct experience with the school?

That's silly, OP. Obviously Walter Johnson is the Dartmouth of the "W Schools." Or maybe the Penn of the "W Schools"?

Plus, where would the prestigiousness of these public MCPS high schools come from anyway? The prestige of having parents who reside in Bethesda or Potomac?

I remember when the county leaked the SATs averages by HS broken down by racial cohort. Turns out WJ had higher scores for my kid's demographic than any other W. If anything, I feel it's underrated.

Anonymous wrote:OP is there a real question underneath your post? Or are you just trying to stir up trouble?

-Whitman grad

Op sent her kids to a lesser private and is upset by the thread (she started) about W vs Private where someone called her lesser private a lesser private 😭
Some yall need serious help

Anonymous wrote:Is Walter Johnson the Cornell of the “W schools?”

Meaning, is it the least prestigious and some argue not even worthy of the “W School” title? Or is it excellent? I ask this because I have been hearing conflicting thoughts on this.

Anyone with direct experience with the school?

One can get an excellent education at any MCPS HS. Each has the same curriculum and the same pool of teaching talent. They all even have an adequately large high-achieving cohort. Sure, there are some differences in bulk test averages that correspond to an area's overall SES but you can do just as well in Calc BC at WJ as anywhere else.

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Anonymous wrote:Is Walter Johnson the Cornell of the “W schools?”

Meaning, is it the least prestigious and some argue not even worthy of the “W School” title? Or is it excellent? I ask this because I have been hearing conflicting thoughts on this.

Anyone with direct experience with the school?

That's silly, OP. Obviously Walter Johnson is the Dartmouth of the "W Schools." Or maybe the Penn of the "W Schools"?

Plus, where would the prestigiousness of these public MCPS high schools come from anyway? The prestige of having parents who reside in Bethesda or Potomac?

Isn’t WJ in Rockville or North Bethesda? Very different than Bethesda or Potomac.

Wootton is in Rockville. So what of it?

You have brain worms.

Anonymous wrote:OP is there a real question underneath your post? Or are you just trying to stir up trouble?

-Whitman grad

The question is real. And by the way, Whitman is by far the best of the Ws so it’s maybe very easy for you to assume all schools are as good as the one you attended. You were very lucky to have attended Whitman.

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Anonymous wrote:Is Walter Johnson the Cornell of the “W schools?”

Meaning, is it the least prestigious and some argue not even worthy of the “W School” title? Or is it excellent? I ask this because I have been hearing conflicting thoughts on this.

Anyone with direct experience with the school?

That's silly, OP. Obviously Walter Johnson is the Dartmouth of the "W Schools." Or maybe the Penn of the "W Schools"?

Plus, where would the prestigiousness of these public MCPS high schools come from anyway? The prestige of having parents who reside in Bethesda or Potomac?

Isn’t WJ in Rockville or North Bethesda? Very different than Bethesda or Potomac.

OP is there a real question underneath your post? Or are you just trying to stir up trouble?

-Whitman grad

Anonymous wrote:Is Walter Johnson the Cornell of the “W schools?”

Meaning, is it the least prestigious and some argue not even worthy of the “W School” title? Or is it excellent? I ask this because I have been hearing conflicting thoughts on this.

Anyone with direct experience with the school?

That's silly, OP. Obviously Walter Johnson is the Dartmouth of the "W Schools." Or maybe the Penn of the "W Schools"?

Plus, where would the prestigiousness of these public MCPS high schools come from anyway? The prestige of having parents who reside in Bethesda or Potomac?

Is Walter Johnson the Cornell of the “W schools?”

Meaning, is it the least prestigious and some argue not even worthy of the “W School” title? Or is it excellent? I ask this because I have been hearing conflicting thoughts on this.

Anyone with direct experience with the school?