Anonymous
05/22/2020 23:30
Subject: Langley 2020 College Destinations
Anonymous wrote:Hayfield is pretty strong. Cornell, Hopkins, MIT, Georgetown
How many via sports?
Anonymous
05/22/2020 23:30
Subject: Re:Langley 2020 College Destinations
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Wow! Kudos to Hayfield. Its students hit the jackpot. Langley parents would sell their Range Rover to gain admissions to those elite colleges snared by the Hayfield students.
The background of most Hayfield students is a lot different than Langley. A much more diverse (racially and socioeconomially) so different circumstances in terms of college admissions.
And this what gave rise to Varsity Blues. The entitlement of privilege. Tell it to the judge.
That’s some serious word salad.
I don't understand EITHER of your statements, PPs.
Anonymous
05/22/2020 23:09
Subject: Re:Langley 2020 College Destinations
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
No one going to NoVA?
Probably a few but they didn't record a video. This was about 1/3 of the LHS graduates.
Langley has a status culture. Kids feel pressure to wear the right clothes/shoes, carry the right handbag, drive the right car. At least the friends I know who went there always felt that way. I would not be surprised if some parents opted out of the video because of where their kids were (or weren't) going. Feel free to blast me, Langley parents, but it is true.
I have to laugh when I read this nonsense. The kids there wear what all the other kids wear - girls wear leggings, oversized sweatshirts, and sneakers. Boys wear jeans, hoodies, and sneakers. NO ONE CARRIES "HANDBAGS." And cars run the gamut.
I went to Langley myself, many years ago, and never felt any of this "pressure" you claim. Stop perpetuating this idiotic (sub)urban myth.
+1 it’s 2020. Girls don’t wear juicy couture pants and zipups. The most expensive shoes I see are vans and adidas. They don’t wear mini skirts. It’s not 2007. Yes they still have fancy cars. Preppy clothes seem to have fallen by the wayside too. I haven’t seen a kid in vineyard vines, lily pulitzer, Ralph Lauren etc in about 4 years.
My son and most of the other boys I've seen live in athletic shorts and tee shirts. His wardrobe came from JC Penney and Lands End. The girls are mostly on sweatshirts and leggings, some jeans and cuter tops. A few now and again in a casual dress.
The cars are mostly newer, some luxury and some regular, Toyotas etc.
My daughter felt pressure to achieve good grades and excel at activities.
Anonymous
05/22/2020 22:20
Subject: Re:Langley 2020 College Destinations
Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have the link to Fairfax HS? Thank you
Here you go. 68 so far
https://instagram.com/fairfaxseniors2020?igshid=dir3yex6ic2x
Anonymous
05/22/2020 21:57
Subject: Re:Langley 2020 College Destinations
Does anyone have the link to Fairfax HS? Thank you
Anonymous
05/22/2020 10:00
Subject: Langley 2020 College Destinations
Anonymous wrote:I loved the kid who was going to be a professional makeup artist. Unexpected!
They can make lots of money if they’re good!!! Good luck to them!
Anonymous
05/22/2020 09:48
Subject: Re:Langley 2020 College Destinations
And Great Falls only had 18.
Anonymous
05/22/2020 09:44
Subject: Re:Langley 2020 College Destinations
Also, Silver Spring had 90.
Anonymous
05/22/2020 09:42
Subject: Re:Langley 2020 College Destinations
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Impressive placement at top colleges. Even better than past couple of years. Well done! Congrats!
Giving Potomac a run for its $$$$
McLean HS this year ran wild! Just from the small number of students self reported, there are already 10 ivies+Stanford, and a dozen other top schools like Chicago, Duke, Northwestern, JHU, etc. I heard at least one for Yale, but not in this self reported list.
Guess they said McLean is a top school in NoVA for a reason.
Congratulations to all!
That's interesting. Why does McLean have more Ivy and top school admissions than Langley? They can probably compete with Whitman, B-CC and many of the well-known privates.
Nope, they cannot.
No point in extrapolating from posts by kids who only account for somewhere between 1/3 and 1/4 of the classes.
No public school that isn't TJ can compete with privates when it comes to the percentage of kids getting into top schools. As to how Langley and McLean measure up against public schools in MoCo, you have to consider the number of kids from the pyramids who go to TJ (about 40 per class from each of Langley and McLean) and decide whether to include UVA in the "top school" category. Whitman isn't losing the same number of kids to MoCo magnets as Langley and McLean do to TJ, and more Ivy grads whose kids may benefit from legacy admissions live in Chevy Chase than McLean.
More legacy from Chevy Chase than McLean, why is that? Is it because more private schools there than in McLean?
DP. There are zero stats to back that up - the PP making the claim is simply making a claim. No one has any clue which area has more legacies.
I went to my Ivy alumni directory and checked for undergraduates who graduated between 1975 and 2000, which seemed like it would pick up the senior parent cohort. This is what I got for different suburbs:
Arlington 214
Bethesda 206
Chevy Chase 122
McLean 74
Falls Church 56
Vienna 42
This doesn't prove, but is consistent with, the notion that there are probably more legacies in MoCo than Fairfax.
Anonymous
05/21/2020 18:22
Subject: Re:Langley 2020 College Destinations
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Impressive placement at top colleges. Even better than past couple of years. Well done! Congrats!
Giving Potomac a run for its $$$$
McLean HS this year ran wild! Just from the small number of students self reported, there are already 10 ivies+Stanford, and a dozen other top schools like Chicago, Duke, Northwestern, JHU, etc. I heard at least one for Yale, but not in this self reported list.
Guess they said McLean is a top school in NoVA for a reason.
Congratulations to all!
That's interesting. Why does McLean have more Ivy and top school admissions than Langley? They can probably compete with Whitman, B-CC and many of the well-known privates.
Nope, they cannot.
No point in extrapolating from posts by kids who only account for somewhere between 1/3 and 1/4 of the classes.
No public school that isn't TJ can compete with privates when it comes to the percentage of kids getting into top schools. As to how Langley and McLean measure up against public schools in MoCo, you have to consider the number of kids from the pyramids who go to TJ (about 40 per class from each of Langley and McLean) and decide whether to include UVA in the "top school" category. Whitman isn't losing the same number of kids to MoCo magnets as Langley and McLean do to TJ, and more Ivy grads whose kids may benefit from legacy admissions live in Chevy Chase than McLean.
More legacy from Chevy Chase than McLean, why is that? Is it because more private schools there than in McLean?
DP. There are zero stats to back that up - the PP making the claim is simply making a claim. No one has any clue which area has more legacies.
Anonymous
05/21/2020 15:41
Subject: Re:Langley 2020 College Destinations
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Impressive placement at top colleges. Even better than past couple of years. Well done! Congrats!
Giving Potomac a run for its $$$$
McLean HS this year ran wild! Just from the small number of students self reported, there are already 10 ivies+Stanford, and a dozen other top schools like Chicago, Duke, Northwestern, JHU, etc. I heard at least one for Yale, but not in this self reported list.
Guess they said McLean is a top school in NoVA for a reason.
Congratulations to all!
That's interesting. Why does McLean have more Ivy and top school admissions than Langley? They can probably compete with Whitman, B-CC and many of the well-known privates.
Nope, they cannot.
No point in extrapolating from posts by kids who only account for somewhere between 1/3 and 1/4 of the classes.
No public school that isn't TJ can compete with privates when it comes to the percentage of kids getting into top schools. As to how Langley and McLean measure up against public schools in MoCo, you have to consider the number of kids from the pyramids who go to TJ (about 40 per class from each of Langley and McLean) and decide whether to include UVA in the "top school" category. Whitman isn't losing the same number of kids to MoCo magnets as Langley and McLean do to TJ, and more Ivy grads whose kids may benefit from legacy admissions live in Chevy Chase than McLean.
More legacy from Chevy Chase than McLean, why is that? Is it because more private schools there than in McLean?
Anonymous
05/20/2020 22:08
Subject: Re:Langley 2020 College Destinations
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Impressive placement at top colleges. Even better than past couple of years. Well done! Congrats!
Giving Potomac a run for its $$$$
McLean HS this year ran wild! Just from the small number of students self reported, there are already 10 ivies+Stanford, and a dozen other top schools like Chicago, Duke, Northwestern, JHU, etc. I heard at least one for Yale, but not in this self reported list.
Guess they said McLean is a top school in NoVA for a reason.
Congratulations to all!
That's interesting. Why does McLean have more Ivy and top school admissions than Langley? They can probably compete with Whitman, B-CC and many of the well-known privates.
Nope, they cannot.
No point in extrapolating from posts by kids who only account for somewhere between 1/3 and 1/4 of the classes.
No public school that isn't TJ can compete with privates when it comes to the percentage of kids getting into top schools. As to how Langley and McLean measure up against public schools in MoCo, you have to consider the number of kids from the pyramids who go to TJ (about 40 per class from each of Langley and McLean) and decide whether to include UVA in the "top school" category. Whitman isn't losing the same number of kids to MoCo magnets as Langley and McLean do to TJ, and more Ivy grads whose kids may benefit from legacy admissions live in Chevy Chase than McLean.
+1
Anonymous
05/20/2020 16:28
Subject: Re:Langley 2020 College Destinations
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Impressive placement at top colleges. Even better than past couple of years. Well done! Congrats!
Giving Potomac a run for its $$$$
McLean HS this year ran wild! Just from the small number of students self reported, there are already 10 ivies+Stanford, and a dozen other top schools like Chicago, Duke, Northwestern, JHU, etc. I heard at least one for Yale, but not in this self reported list.
Guess they said McLean is a top school in NoVA for a reason.
Congratulations to all!
That's interesting. Why does McLean have more Ivy and top school admissions than Langley? They can probably compete with Whitman, B-CC and many of the well-known privates.
Nope, they cannot.
No point in extrapolating from posts by kids who only account for somewhere between 1/3 and 1/4 of the classes.
No public school that isn't TJ can compete with privates when it comes to the percentage of kids getting into top schools. As to how Langley and McLean measure up against public schools in MoCo, you have to consider the number of kids from the pyramids who go to TJ (about 40 per class from each of Langley and McLean) and decide whether to include UVA in the "top school" category. Whitman isn't losing the same number of kids to MoCo magnets as Langley and McLean do to TJ, and more Ivy grads whose kids may benefit from legacy admissions live in Chevy Chase than McLean.
Anonymous
05/20/2020 15:20
Subject: Re:Langley 2020 College Destinations
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Impressive placement at top colleges. Even better than past couple of years. Well done! Congrats!
Giving Potomac a run for its $$$$
McLean HS this year ran wild! Just from the small number of students self reported, there are already 10 ivies+Stanford, and a dozen other top schools like Chicago, Duke, Northwestern, JHU, etc. I heard at least one for Yale, but not in this self reported list.
Guess they said McLean is a top school in NoVA for a reason.
Congratulations to all!
That's interesting. Why does McLean have more Ivy and top school admissions than Langley? They can probably compete with Whitman, B-CC and many of the well-known privates.
Nope, they cannot.
Anonymous
05/20/2020 14:40
Subject: Re:Langley 2020 College Destinations
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:
Impressive placement at top colleges. Even better than past couple of years. Well done! Congrats!
Giving Potomac a run for its $$$$
McLean HS this year ran wild! Just from the small number of students self reported, there are already 10 ivies+Stanford, and a dozen other top schools like Chicago, Duke, Northwestern, JHU, etc. I heard at least one for Yale, but not in this self reported list.
Guess they said McLean is a top school in NoVA for a reason.
Congratulations to all!
That's interesting. Why does McLean have more Ivy and top school admissions than Langley? They can probably compete with Whitman, B-CC and many of the well-known privates.
Do you understand that many kids didn't bother to report their college destinations to these IG things?