Anonymous
09/14/2025 21:11
Subject: Suburban MD Prestige Rankings
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:What about Bowie?
So terrible you can't even get anyone to comment on it.
So glad the people on this thread don’t care to know anything about Bowie. We’d rather continue to live in peace and enjoy our part of the county.
Anonymous
08/06/2025 12:36
Subject: Suburban MD Prestige Rankings
Anonymous wrote:What about Bowie?
So terrible you can't even get anyone to comment on it.
Anonymous
08/04/2025 18:27
Subject: Re:Suburban MD Prestige Rankings
NoNone in Chevy Chase village is even aware of Mds college situation.
Anonymous
08/04/2025 08:14
Subject: Suburban MD Prestige Rankings
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:“Prestige” and “Maryland” are antonyms.
OMG, you are so right! Nothing is more prestigious than a ranch house in Pimmit Hills or a McMansion in McLean!
There’s a reason the most prestigious schools and country clubs are in MD and not VA.
There is a literally a small sliver of Montgomery County that isn’t depressing and low rent. That’s it. PG County and Howard County can’t compete with Loudoun or Fairfax on any metric. Wealth, schools, crime. Anything.
And all the colleges besides UMD and Johns Hopkins are crappy. If you can’t afford private and your kid can’t get into UMD you’re out of luck. Meanwhile Virginia has UVA, William & Mary, VTech, GMU, VCU, James Madison…ie, all schools you’d want your kid to go to before Towson.
The people who actually have prestige could not care less about in state college options, dear.
Anonymous
07/27/2025 21:35
Subject: Re:Suburban MD Prestige Rankings
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Instead of "prestige," don't you just mean richest?
These places do not hold "prestige" to me. The top ones are just where rich people live or people who inherited a lot of generational wealth...
There's also the race aspect. The "top ones" are the whiter areas, so this list is basically saying (according to one poster) that POC live in the "sh-t" areas.
Really nice.
I'm sure your mom would be proud. lol Well, I guess this is what your parent taught you to do...
This 1000%. Unreal. fwiw I live in one of the areas perceived as prestigious and let me tell you the way i think of it based on empirical data is legalized prostitution and ppl with generational wealth gotten by unknown means. Would love to see a ranking based on character, work ethic, virtues around inclusion, etc
Again, if places like Wheaton and Montgomery Village were incredibly nice but just being slighted because of the demographics of these areas, the people who are in the same demographic cohorts would move back there when they acquired wealth and got jobs as doctors, lawyers, CEOs, etc. The people who “make it” out of these neighborhoods are never moving back and moving to the more prestigious neighborhoods listed in this thread. Your virtue signaling and idealism doesn’t change that.
Anonymous
07/27/2025 15:28
Subject: Suburban MD Prestige Rankings
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Lol, now is it possible to do a prestige ranking on the MCPS high schools?
Good idea. Here's the more ideal ranking for the schools if you gonna consider the prestige by it's current boundary area.
Tier 1:
- Winston Churchill
- Walt Whitman
- Poolesville
- Bethesda-Chevy Chase
- Wootton
Tier 2:
- RM
- Clarksburg
- Northwest
- Einstein
- Blair
- WJ
Tier 3:
- Damascus
- Sherwood
- Magruder
- Blake
- Quince Orchard
Tier 4:
- Northwood
- Wheaton
- Gaithersburg
- Paint Branch
Tier 5:
- Rockville
- Watkins Mill
- Kennedy
- Springbrook
Are those prestige by a housing or school ?
Nobody considers Churchill the best high school and while BCC has some great areas in it it also has droves of apts and a chunk o low income silver spring dragging it down. What makes Whitman…Whitman is that it has almost exclusively million dollar and up SFHs
Housing.
Yah I’m not sure Potomac can compete with Bethesda housing. There are a few palatial estates but by quantity and total value close in Bethesda is way better. Only thing holder BCC back from value is all the apartments. Churchill has lots of normal areas and not to mention Scotland.
Is this meant to be a racist dog whistle? The Scotland neighborhood is a perfectly normal area. What is your problem, dude?
Thanks for this PP