Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.fcps.edu/news/fcps-high-schools-ranked-among-best-virginia-and-nation-us-news-and-world-report

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia/districts/fairfax-county-public-schools-109481

Just curious - what’s the point of these off-topic links?

DP here. The top schools on this list are pretty interchangeable with best college outcomes. Sure, McLean may or may not have slightly better or just more kids or more kids posting than Langley but the list is probably right. I think it has more to do with higher SES. Well educated and wealthier parent population with generally produce better results.

At the same time, college admissions officers don’t just want to admit kids from the wealthiest school with the highest average SAT scores. Kids from other schools often have more interesting backgrounds and stronger achievements.

Middle class kids can't afford OOS flagships like Michigan, they and the can't afford private universities and SLACS. Schools like Eidson and West Springfield and South County will have more families with HHIs in the 150-250k range for whom those schools aren't an option, so the results will be heavily skewed towrards Virginia schools and cheaper OOS options. That doesn't mean that a kid from a family who can afford 80k a year in one of those high schools isn't positioned just as well as the same kid in Langley.

The older I get, the more I think that getting into the "best" college really doesn't matter as much as people think it does.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.fcps.edu/news/fcps-high-schools-ranked-among-best-virginia-and-nation-us-news-and-world-report

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia/districts/fairfax-county-public-schools-109481

Just curious - what’s the point of these off-topic links?

DP here. The top schools on this list are pretty interchangeable with best college outcomes. Sure, McLean may or may not have slightly better or just more kids or more kids posting than Langley but the list is probably right. I think it has more to do with higher SES. Well educated and wealthier parent population with generally produce better results.

At the same time, college admissions officers don’t just want to admit kids from the wealthiest school with the highest average SAT scores. Kids from other schools often have more interesting backgrounds and stronger achievements.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.fcps.edu/news/fcps-high-schools-ranked-among-best-virginia-and-nation-us-news-and-world-report

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia/districts/fairfax-county-public-schools-109481

Just curious - what’s the point of these off-topic links?

DP here. The top schools on this list are pretty interchangeable with best college outcomes. Sure, McLean may or may not have slightly better or just more kids or more kids posting than Langley but the list is probably right. I think it has more to do with higher SES. Well educated and wealthier parent population with generally produce better results.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.fcps.edu/news/fcps-high-schools-ranked-among-best-virginia-and-nation-us-news-and-world-report

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia/districts/fairfax-county-public-schools-109481

Just curious - what’s the point of these off-topic links?

How are these links off-topic? The subject is "best high schools in Fairfax."

The subject is “best high schools in Fairfax based on college outcomes.” Which the ranking you linked to does not take into account.

Anonymous wrote:I took my kids out of FCPS public schools and put them in Potomac. Potomac is much better then either Langley or McLean HS.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:https://www.fcps.edu/news/fcps-high-schools-ranked-among-best-virginia-and-nation-us-news-and-world-report

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia/districts/fairfax-county-public-schools-109481

Just curious - what’s the point of these off-topic links?

How are these links off-topic? The subject is "best high schools in Fairfax."

I took my kid out of private school and moved to NoVa. Langley HS or McLean HS is much better than Potomac.

I took my kids out of FCPS public schools and put them in Potomac. Potomac is much better then either Langley or McLean HS.

Anonymous wrote:https://www.fcps.edu/news/fcps-high-schools-ranked-among-best-virginia-and-nation-us-news-and-world-report

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia/districts/fairfax-county-public-schools-109481

Just curious - what’s the point of these off-topic links?

https://www.fcps.edu/news/fcps-high-schools-ranked-among-best-virginia-and-nation-us-news-and-world-report

https://www.usnews.com/education/best-high-schools/virginia/districts/fairfax-county-public-schools-109481

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Anonymous wrote:McLean college outcomes are by far the best. Look at insta posted above.

It may just look that way to you because more students at that school shared information on that platform.

+1
Always makes me laugh when that poster makes the same claim. Many/most kids don't bother posting their college destination on their high school's insta. Yet that poster takes it as gospel.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They’re interchangeable. And you need to chill out.

+1. Any bright child with involved and caring parents is able to excel in FCPS.

X a million.

One would like to think this is the case, yet we have a School Board that lets some schools balloon in size so that the children of their favored constituents don't have to attend other schools. What do they know that we don't?

That smart kids need cohorts. The also make it easy to transfer out of crappy schools

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They’re interchangeable. And you need to chill out.

+1. Any bright child with involved and caring parents is able to excel in FCPS.

X a million.

One would like to think this is the case, yet we have a School Board that lets some schools balloon in size so that the children of their favored constituents don't have to attend other schools. What do they know that we don't?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:They’re interchangeable. And you need to chill out.

+1. Any bright child with involved and caring parents is able to excel in FCPS.

X a million.