Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Does not matter if it is McLean or McChicken. The fact is that US students are so far behind other countries that compared to the rest of the first world countries, our students are average. A solid world-class C.
thats a bunch of nonsense to scare people. american children can compete with anyone. But they can't compete with desperation from a nation with millions available to work for peanuts.
all the h1b indians are desperate to come here and make 60K a year doing software testing.
they drive their children insanely to get in TJ.
need to stop the h1b program and stop selling out the middle class with desperate people.
You are a dumb ass.
The US issues 65,000 H1B visas per year. Our total population is 314 million. H1B visas are a drop in the bucket for the US middle class.
Anonymous wrote:Sure many of the kids in FCPS are above average, more so in the more upscale areas. But you have to be way way above average to make it into the top private and public universities many people have in mind. So from that perspective - our above average kids are closer to average than we would like to think.
Look at the numbers. A 1200 SAT (math / verbal) is around 80th percentile. That is way above average. But a 1200 SAT is not going to get you into a top tier college and I would guess many in Great Falls / McLean would have to mask their disappointment at a 1200 SAT. A 1300 SAT is around 90th percentile and from northern Virginia that may get you into Virginia Tech and some out of state public flagships - not the top ones though. So you are talking 90th percentile before you start getting into the lower end of schools many of us are aspiring for our kids. And you have to pair that with mostly A's through a difficult class schedule.
That is a tall order and most of our kids will fall short. We are setting them up by expecting too much. And what happens to their emotional balance in the process.
Anonymous wrote:I didn't say that TJ kids preferred G'town. I'm just saying if McLean kids aren't even acceptable to the G'town admissions director...they'll never even get looked at by any Ivies.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I thought the article was flawed. As mentioned in a Washingtonian article a few years ago, the Admissions Directors from Georgetown and UVA said they would admit kids from TJ but that since TJ sifted off the smartest kids, they wouldn't admit many from other VA publics. The the top kids were already sifted off and don't go to McLean.
Bull. Maybe the smart kids stayed in McLean (and other base schools) because they were not that interested in STEM.
Anonymous wrote:I thought the article was flawed. As mentioned in a Washingtonian article a few years ago, the Admissions Directors from Georgetown and UVA said they would admit kids from TJ but that since TJ sifted off the smartest kids, they wouldn't admit many from other VA publics. The the top kids were already sifted off and don't go to McLean.
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:NP. Of the people I went to college with, it was more the mouth-breathing business major types who ended up being rich. The most intelligent people I knew, while still successful, tend not to be rich. They became math professors, programmers, research scientists, etc.
Like many people you are confusing intelligence with "being an intellectual". The business majors weren't stupid -- they just weren't interested in math / science.
No, I'm very specifically talking about intelligence. I took classes with these people, worked on projects together, spoke with them at length on a variety of topics. Spending that much time with people, you can certainly glean their level of intelligence. Not trying to say that all business majors are lacking in that respect, or that I don't also know a few extremely intelligent wealthy people, but to act like HHI directly correlates with a high level of intelligence is faulty logic.
Anonymous wrote:I thought the article was flawed. As mentioned in a Washingtonian article a few years ago, the Admissions Directors from Georgetown and UVA said they would admit kids from TJ but that since TJ sifted off the smartest kids, they wouldn't admit many from other VA publics. The the top kids were already sifted off and don't go to McLean. The dumb mom in the article was trying to pretend her kid wasn't just average and that's why the poor thing went to JMU
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Does not matter if it is McLean or McChicken. The fact is that US students are so far behind other countries that compared to the rest of the first world countries, our students are average. A solid world-class C.
thats a bunch of nonsense to scare people. american children can compete with anyone. But they can't compete with desperation from a nation with millions available to work for peanuts.
all the h1b indians are desperate to come here and make 60K a year doing software testing.
they drive their children insanely to get in TJ.
need to stop the h1b program and stop selling out the middle class with desperate people.
Anonymous wrote:I thought the article was flawed. As mentioned in a Washingtonian article a few years ago, the Admissions Directors from Georgetown and UVA said they would admit kids from TJ but that since TJ sifted off the smartest kids, they wouldn't admit many from other VA publics. The the top kids were already sifted off and don't go to McLean. The dumb mom in the article was trying to pretend her kid wasn't just average and that's why the poor thing went to JMU
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Does not matter if it is McLean or McChicken. The fact is that US students are so far behind other countries that compared to the rest of the first world countries, our students are average. A solid world-class C.
thats a bunch of nonsense to scare people. american children can compete with anyone. But they can't compete with desperation from a nation with millions available to work for peanuts.
all the h1b indians are desperate to come here and make 60K a year doing software testing.
they drive their children insanely to get in TJ.
need to stop the h1b program and stop selling out the middle class with desperate people.
Anonymous wrote:Does not matter if it is McLean or McChicken. The fact is that US students are so far behind other countries that compared to the rest of the first world countries, our students are average. A solid world-class C.