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Anonymous wrote:What I heard from my kid is that Langley is full of mean and pretentious kids.

Maybe a little status driven - you really can't avoid it since the kids come from families that are among the most successful. Their parents are competitive, so they have competitive kids.

No doubt some elements in this environment is not healthy, but on the whole, it's a great school with great academic achievements. If a kid cannot stand the pressures of a high school like Langley, then he/she is going to have bigger problems in college and life in general.

Huh. No. My kid hated Langley but is absolutely loving college and thriving.

Is it true you have to have the right "connection" to join clubs such as MUN at Langley? That sounds awful if true.

I doubt that. Maybe if registration period had ended and someone knew someone who then were able to get a late registration in.

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Anonymous wrote:What I heard from my kid is that Langley is full of mean and pretentious kids.

Maybe a little status driven - you really can't avoid it since the kids come from families that are among the most successful. Their parents are competitive, so they have competitive kids.

No doubt some elements in this environment is not healthy, but on the whole, it's a great school with great academic achievements. If a kid cannot stand the pressures of a high school like Langley, then he/she is going to have bigger problems in college and life in general.

No, if a student cannot handle a high-pressure high school (one of the highest pressure high schools in the area), then the student can go to college and have a successful life. Surviving and thriving in a high-pressure high school is not the sole metric of life.

No one said it was the sole metric of life, I'm just saying it's not that big of a deal and parents shouldn't be worried about it. No doubt TJ is very high pressure, but most of the kids there are surviving just fine. I may not care for the nature of competitiveness that goes on at TJ but I wouldn't go so far as to disparage it as if it is on the whole intrinsically bad for kids and is therefore to be avoided. Same with Langley. Same with McLean. Same with any of the desirable private schools in this area. Parents should of course exercise their own judgement and put their kids into a school that they feel gives their kids the best results. But to brush off an exceptionally well performing school like Langley as having a "mean and pretentious" atmosphere is irresponsible.

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Anonymous wrote:What I heard from my kid is that Langley is full of mean and pretentious kids.

Maybe a little status driven - you really can't avoid it since the kids come from families that are among the most successful. Their parents are competitive, so they have competitive kids.

No doubt some elements in this environment is not healthy, but on the whole, it's a great school with great academic achievements. If a kid cannot stand the pressures of a high school like Langley, then he/she is going to have bigger problems in college and life in general.

Huh. No. My kid hated Langley but is absolutely loving college and thriving.

It's best to avoid over-generalizations in any direction.

As for "Langley vs. McLean," they are rivals, but the school communities now get along well. The administrators and students do a good job of encouraging joint projects like the annual Langley-McLean Relay for Life fundraiser.

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Anonymous wrote:What I heard from my kid is that Langley is full of mean and pretentious kids.

Maybe a little status driven - you really can't avoid it since the kids come from families that are among the most successful. Their parents are competitive, so they have competitive kids.

No doubt some elements in this environment is not healthy, but on the whole, it's a great school with great academic achievements. If a kid cannot stand the pressures of a high school like Langley, then he/she is going to have bigger problems in college and life in general.

Huh. No. My kid hated Langley but is absolutely loving college and thriving.

Is it true you have to have the right "connection" to join clubs such as MUN at Langley? That sounds awful if true.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What I heard from my kid is that Langley is full of mean and pretentious kids.

Maybe a little status driven - you really can't avoid it since the kids come from families that are among the most successful. Their parents are competitive, so they have competitive kids.

No doubt some elements in this environment is not healthy, but on the whole, it's a great school with great academic achievements. If a kid cannot stand the pressures of a high school like Langley, then he/she is going to have bigger problems in college and life in general.

Huh. No. My kid hated Langley but is absolutely loving college and thriving.

Both are very good schools. McLean has probably caught up to Langley due to people preferring to live closer in and near Metro, rather than in totally car-dependent areas in western McLean and Great Falls. McLean also had more than twice as many NMSFs in the Class of 2016 as Langley.

http://commweb.fcps.edu/newsreleases/newsrelease.cfm?newsid=2839

But Langley will always have great scores - there's no other neighborhood HS in NoVa that pulls entirely from affluent areas like Langley. The school is also getting a major renovation that will be finished in another year or so.

There are cheaper houses in the Langley boundaries. I don't know if this was always the case.

We could not afford any single family homes in McLean's boundaries. There were a large handful of houses that we looked over listings for in the Langley boundaries. We decided that there is little to no appeal to living in Great Falls, and that its cache will go by the wayside as people lean toward more urban living.

Anonymous wrote:What I heard from my kid is that Langley is full of mean and pretentious kids.

What I heard from my kid(s) is that Langley is full of lots of different types of kids. Some are extremely smart, some are athletic, some are friendly and outgoing, some are shy and introverted, some are into theater, band, orchestra, debate, Model UN, It's Academic, sports, fashion, community service, journalism, leadership. My kids also tell me that most of the kids they've met have been kind and fun to be around, and they simply avoid those who aren't. Certainly, their groups of friends are made up of great kids.

Kind of like any other high school!

Really, the urban (or suburban?) legends about Langley have become so old.

Which is bashed more TJ or Langley?

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Anonymous wrote:What I heard from my kid is that Langley is full of mean and pretentious kids.

Maybe a little status driven - you really can't avoid it since the kids come from families that are among the most successful. Their parents are competitive, so they have competitive kids.

No doubt some elements in this environment is not healthy, but on the whole, it's a great school with great academic achievements. If a kid cannot stand the pressures of a high school like Langley, then he/she is going to have bigger problems in college and life in general.

No, if a student cannot handle a high-pressure high school (one of the highest pressure high schools in the area), then the student can go to college and have a successful life. Surviving and thriving in a high-pressure high school is not the sole metric of life.

Gee it's been a whole week without a Langley-bashing or Langley v McLean thread.

Anonymous wrote:What I heard from my kid is that Langley is full of mean and pretentious kids.

Maybe a little status driven - you really can't avoid it since the kids come from families that are among the most successful. Their parents are competitive, so they have competitive kids.

No doubt some elements in this environment is not healthy, but on the whole, it's a great school with great academic achievements. If a kid cannot stand the pressures of a high school like Langley, then he/she is going to have bigger problems in college and life in general.

What I heard from my kid is that Langley is full of mean and pretentious kids.

There is only one "o" in "losing". It is a different word with two "o"s.

2013 2014 2015
Mclean 1781 1774 1813
Langley 1837 1830 1815

SAT scores for various High Schools for Class of 2015 > http://www.fcps.edu/cco/pr/satact/2015/table2.pdf