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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have McLean and Langley HS pages?

https://instagram.com/mcleancommits2023

https://instagram.com/langleycommits2023

Don’t these two schools have about 600 students per grade? Their college admissions results are underwhelming.

We are zoned for Langley. Their instagram doesn’t represent their whole class. Both McLean and Langley have a lot of smart Asian kids and they often don’t post on these social media platforms. I know my son won’t want to. Last year, at least 10 kids went to Yale. I don’t know anything about this year. My kid is only 14.

10 to Yale? I don't think that is right.

This was last year. We were applying to privates and I spent a lot of time on this board. Multiple Langley parents posted and I spoke to a few Langley parents in real life. I would never admit to spending all this time looking at private and public school college matriculation info online. I act very nonchalant about college in real life. We absolutely 100% care where our kids end up for college. Both McLean and Langley had very impressive college admissions last year.

Highly doubtful there were 10 to Yale. I see only one to Yale in last year's instagram post, and this was an athletic recruit. https://www.instagram.com/langleycommits2022/

There was a long thread about Langley college admissions last year and some parents had shared some private info about the Yale admits and a lot of the thread got taken down. Someone shared pdf documents and one poster even created an entire spreadsheet comparing Langley to McLean High. Maybe it wasn’t 10 to Yale. Maybe it was 10 to HYP or ivy? My memory is blurry and I had not thought about college admissions for over 20 years. My takeaway from all my time reading various forums and college counseling sites was that if you graduate at the top 10% of McLean or Langley, you should be able to get into a T30 college or UVA. I am still not sure exactly what gpa that needs to be to make it to the top 10%.

https://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/90/1060115.page

I clearly remember being surprised at parents considering Northeastern a top college. I remember thinking people online must be uneducated and confusing Northeastern and Northwestern. I was annoyed at the UVA boosters who seemed to put UVA in the same category as HYPS.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have McLean and Langley HS pages?

https://instagram.com/mcleancommits2023

https://instagram.com/langleycommits2023

Don’t these two schools have about 600 students per grade? Their college admissions results are underwhelming.

We are zoned for Langley. Their instagram doesn’t represent their whole class. Both McLean and Langley have a lot of smart Asian kids and they often don’t post on these social media platforms. I know my son won’t want to. Last year, at least 10 kids went to Yale. I don’t know anything about this year. My kid is only 14.

10 to Yale? I don't think that is right.

Lol. Of course that’s not true.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have McLean and Langley HS pages?

https://instagram.com/mcleancommits2023

https://instagram.com/langleycommits2023

Don’t these two schools have about 600 students per grade? Their college admissions results are underwhelming.

We are zoned for Langley. Their instagram doesn’t represent their whole class. Both McLean and Langley have a lot of smart Asian kids and they often don’t post on these social media platforms. I know my son won’t want to. Last year, at least 10 kids went to Yale. I don’t know anything about this year. My kid is only 14.

10 to Yale? I don't think that is right.

This was last year. We were applying to privates and I spent a lot of time on this board. Multiple Langley parents posted and I spoke to a few Langley parents in real life. I would never admit to spending all this time looking at private and public school college matriculation info online. I act very nonchalant about college in real life. We absolutely 100% care where our kids end up for college. Both McLean and Langley had very impressive college admissions last year.

Highly doubtful there were 10 to Yale. I see only one to Yale in last year's instagram post, and this was an athletic recruit. https://www.instagram.com/langleycommits2022/

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell’s recent posts have been incredibly impressive.

Yes, very impressive! I’m not a Sidwell parent, but credit should be given where credit is due. There are a bunch of Sidwell haters in the Private School Forum.

Being considered the top school in the DMV is great for Sidwell. The downside is that it makes the school a constant target.

The recent Sidwell posts are all hooked kids as well. Harvard is legacy, Brown legacy, Penn URM. It's the same story.

They’re not all “hooked” (because I know a few students/families personally), but I see that you are determined to make excuses.

Btw, are none of the public school students hooked at Langley, McLean, and Churchill? Is that why they attend public school and can’t get into Ivies at the same rate as Sidwell students?

Didn’t you know that a condition of graduating from an Ivy League school is committing to send future children to private school only? That’s how you know all Ivy admits from public schools aren’t legacies.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell’s recent posts have been incredibly impressive.

Yes, very impressive! I’m not a Sidwell parent, but credit should be given where credit is due. There are a bunch of Sidwell haters in the Private School Forum.

Being considered the top school in the DMV is great for Sidwell. The downside is that it makes the school a constant target.

The recent Sidwell posts are all hooked kids as well. Harvard is legacy, Brown legacy, Penn URM. It's the same story.

They’re not all “hooked” (because I know a few students/families personally), but I see that you are determined to make excuses.

Btw, are none of the public school students hooked at Langley, McLean, and Churchill? Is that why they attend public school and can’t get into Ivies at the same rate as Sidwell students?

I have heard of plenty of legacy kids getting rejected from both public and private. These are not just ivy but also other T30 schools.

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Anonymous wrote:What happened with GDS this year?

Not as good as last year's, but still decent.

Just barely ok, I'd say. I know somewhat more disappointed families than happy ones.

Couple of unhooked very high stats kids got T10s - just a couple...otherwise, I'd say everyone was hooked for T10.

ED was the ticket for SLACs and esp. Tufts.

Unhooked/high stats had a bunch of kids shut out of T30...and scrambling between safeties since targets were often...off-target

Yes, hooked vs. unhooked, ED or not ED etc…is the same story at GDS, Sidwell or NCS. Same story everywhere, why pick on GDS kids?

One school that’s doing very well is SWW.

Congratulations to all kids!

YES!

The recent admits that Sidwell posted are all hooked kids: mostly legacy from very high profile, $$$, law-partner parents. Any school on the planet could have placed them into their parents' alma maters.
These private high schools can only work with what they've been given. If they get a class of the kids of high-honor alums they are golden. Random federal employees (like myself)--well then
you're looking at the (even high achieving) kids ending up at the type of schools you would all scoff at.

Ironically, you have touched on the very reason why students from top (and expensive) private high schools will always be over represented at top (and expensive) private colleges and universities. Ivies, Stanford, MIT, SLACs, etc. need these wealthy, connected, and very well educated/prepared students to pay full tuition and provide the rarefied social atmosphere that many parents want their children to be immersed. If these schools become full of only high stats strivers who need a lot of financial aid, these top schools will lose that which so many covet.

Sidwell has the most well educated and connected parents in the DMV. For an unhooked smart kid, chances are probably worse going to a school like this. For the hooked kids, they probably could have gotten in wherever they went to high school. There is just a higher concentration of these kids at Sidwell. The strivers are the ones who are going to be disappointed.

Pp here. After touring, applying, interviewing and getting accepted, we decided to stick with public. Our child did not want to switch. After all the countless hours I spent trying to figure out the culture and community of each private, ultimately we cared about college outcomes. I concluded there was no benefit to private and that there actually might be a slight disadvantage at the very top privates. The second tier privates did not have more impressive college admissions than our local public. DH and I both attended T30 colleges and Ivy grad schools. When we weighed out the longer commute and all the time we would waste on the road in addition to our child strongly wanting to stay with his friends, we decided to stay. McLean is full of talented smart students. Many of these kids go to Sidwell, STA, Landon/Holton, Potomac, etc. and many more of these exact same kids go to Langley and McLean High.

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have McLean and Langley HS pages?

https://instagram.com/mcleancommits2023

https://instagram.com/langleycommits2023

Don’t these two schools have about 600 students per grade? Their college admissions results are underwhelming.

We are zoned for Langley. Their instagram doesn’t represent their whole class. Both McLean and Langley have a lot of smart Asian kids and they often don’t post on these social media platforms. I know my son won’t want to. Last year, at least 10 kids went to Yale. I don’t know anything about this year. My kid is only 14.

10 to Yale? I don't think that is right.

This was last year. We were applying to privates and I spent a lot of time on this board. Multiple Langley parents posted and I spoke to a few Langley parents in real life. I would never admit to spending all this time looking at private and public school college matriculation info online. I act very nonchalant about college in real life. We absolutely 100% care where our kids end up for college. Both McLean and Langley had very impressive college admissions last year.

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Anonymous wrote:And links for Landon or STA college decisions?

Landon

https://instagram.com/landonseniors23?igshid=YmMyMTA2M2Y=

I always compare privates to the honors kids at public. Landon doesn’t seem very different from any good public high school in terms of college admissions.

Why compare privates to the honors kids though? I think private provide better outcomes for the average kid.

Because my kid is an honors/AP kid. I am comparing outcomes of the top 20%of the class or top 100 kids vs sending my kid to a private high school with a graduating class of 100-150 students.

We decided to keep our motivated high achieving kid in public. We will likely send our younger 2 less hard working smart kids to private.

We sent both our boys to private after 8th grade and the private is much more rigorous and the courses and teachers much more engaging. My kid kind of moped, bored through 8th grade and he loves his courses and the challenge and the interaction and projects with the teachers.

A smart, motivated kid would do well in public---but they are going to get a higher level of teacher (all the teachers have grad degrees in the subject and from good schools, at least at our private) and have a better experience with smaller class sizes and more time to dive deeper and, not just teach to the test.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell’s recent posts have been incredibly impressive.

Yes, very impressive! I’m not a Sidwell parent, but credit should be given where credit is due. There are a bunch of Sidwell haters in the Private School Forum.

Being considered the top school in the DMV is great for Sidwell. The downside is that it makes the school a constant target.

The recent Sidwell posts are all hooked kids as well. Harvard is legacy, Brown legacy, Penn URM. It's the same story.

How do you know this?

Google is your friend.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell’s recent posts have been incredibly impressive.

Yes, very impressive! I’m not a Sidwell parent, but credit should be given where credit is due. There are a bunch of Sidwell haters in the Private School Forum.

Being considered the top school in the DMV is great for Sidwell. The downside is that it makes the school a constant target.

The recent Sidwell posts are all hooked kids as well. Harvard is legacy, Brown legacy, Penn URM. It's the same story.

How do you know this?

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Anonymous wrote:Does anyone have McLean and Langley HS pages?

https://instagram.com/mcleancommits2023

https://instagram.com/langleycommits2023

Don’t these two schools have about 600 students per grade? Their college admissions results are underwhelming.

We are zoned for Langley. Their instagram doesn’t represent their whole class. Both McLean and Langley have a lot of smart Asian kids and they often don’t post on these social media platforms. I know my son won’t want to. Last year, at least 10 kids went to Yale. I don’t know anything about this year. My kid is only 14.

10 to Yale? I don't think that is right.

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Anonymous wrote:What happened with GDS this year?

Not as good as last year's, but still decent.

Just barely ok, I'd say. I know somewhat more disappointed families than happy ones.

Couple of unhooked very high stats kids got T10s - just a couple...otherwise, I'd say everyone was hooked for T10.

ED was the ticket for SLACs and esp. Tufts.

Unhooked/high stats had a bunch of kids shut out of T30...and scrambling between safeties since targets were often...off-target

Yes, hooked vs. unhooked, ED or not ED etc…is the same story at GDS, Sidwell or NCS. Same story everywhere, why pick on GDS kids?

One school that’s doing very well is SWW.

Congratulations to all kids!

YES!

The recent admits that Sidwell posted are all hooked kids: mostly legacy from very high profile, $$$, law-partner parents. Any school on the planet could have placed them into their parents' alma maters.
These private high schools can only work with what they've been given. If they get a class of the kids of high-honor alums they are golden. Random federal employees (like myself)--well then
you're looking at the (even high achieving) kids ending up at the type of schools you would all scoff at.

Ironically, you have touched on the very reason why students from top (and expensive) private high schools will always be over represented at top (and expensive) private colleges and universities. Ivies, Stanford, MIT, SLACs, etc. need these wealthy, connected, and very well educated/prepared students to pay full tuition and provide the rarefied social atmosphere that many parents want their children to be immersed. If these schools become full of only high stats strivers who need a lot of financial aid, these top schools will lose that which so many covet.

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Anonymous wrote:What happened with GDS this year?

Not as good as last year's, but still decent.

Just barely ok, I'd say. I know somewhat more disappointed families than happy ones.

Couple of unhooked very high stats kids got T10s - just a couple...otherwise, I'd say everyone was hooked for T10.

ED was the ticket for SLACs and esp. Tufts.

Unhooked/high stats had a bunch of kids shut out of T30...and scrambling between safeties since targets were often...off-target

Yes, hooked vs. unhooked, ED or not ED etc…is the same story at GDS, Sidwell or NCS. Same story everywhere, why pick on GDS kids?

One school that’s doing very well is SWW.

Congratulations to all kids!

SWW’s results are very underwhelming as well. 150-160 graduating seniors and only 5 or 6 are going to Ivies. If you think that’s great than you’re using a low bar to measure SWW students.

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Anonymous wrote:Sidwell’s recent posts have been incredibly impressive.

Yes, very impressive! I’m not a Sidwell parent, but credit should be given where credit is due. There are a bunch of Sidwell haters in the Private School Forum.

Being considered the top school in the DMV is great for Sidwell. The downside is that it makes the school a constant target.

The recent Sidwell posts are all hooked kids as well. Harvard is legacy, Brown legacy, Penn URM. It's the same story.

They’re not all “hooked” (because I know a few students/families personally), but I see that you are determined to make excuses.

Btw, are none of the public school students hooked at Langley, McLean, and Churchill? Is that why they attend public school and can’t get into Ivies at the same rate as Sidwell students?