Anonymous
05/18/2020 22:08
Subject: Re:Langley 2020 College Destinations
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 two at Langley and neither feels any pressure to have the "right" things - maybe it was that way a long time ago? I don't know why some kids did not send in a clip because I know of several not on the video who got into great colleges.
Anonymous
05/18/2020 22:05
Subject: Re:Langley 2020 College Destinations
Anonymous wrote:
No one going to NoVA?
My Langley child plans to start out at Nova (he's a rising junior and has great grades, but that's what he wants to do. It's much cheaper than a 4-year college).
Anonymous
05/18/2020 21:42
Subject: Re:Langley 2020 College Destinations
Anonymous wrote:Truth is, nobody really gives a sh#t where most of these rich kids go.
+1 Finally, a voice of reason.
Anonymous
05/18/2020 21:01
Subject: Re:Langley 2020 College Destinations
Anonymous wrote: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.
+2
The PPP likely has seen "Clueless" too many times and thinks high school is actually like that.
I’ve definitely seen Vineyard Vines and Ralph Lauren at LHS within the past year but so what? It’s not like it’s a mandatory uniform.
Anonymous
05/18/2020 20:59
Subject: Re:Langley 2020 College Destinations
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:If you have rich parents, why would you bother to even go to college?
Many Langley parents are comfortably UMC, but not wealthy enough to perpetually support their children. And why wouldn’t the children want to be self-sufficient? For kids who get to live on campus and not have to work during the school year, it’s a fun experience.
+1
I can't believe you actually expended the effort to reply to such a stupid question.
Anonymous
05/18/2020 20:50
Subject: Re:Langley 2020 College Destinations
This is DCUM so I shouldn't be shocked, but I am SHOCKED at the replies to this thread. What is wrong with you people?? I feel so sorry for your poor children. I tell my children to learn as much as they can and work as hard as they can and college is such a crapshoot. Not every smart kid can get into Harvard. The pressure your kids must be under... I can't imagine.
Anonymous
05/18/2020 20:49
Subject: Re:Langley 2020 College Destinations
Anonymous wrote:If you have rich parents, why would you bother to even go to college?
These aren't trust fund kids. Go ask on the private schools forum.
Anonymous
05/18/2020 20:49
Subject: Re:Langley 2020 College Destinations
Anonymous wrote:So all that money and they are still going to state colleges ??
If we’re lucky.
Anonymous
05/18/2020 20:44
Subject: Re:Langley 2020 College Destinations
Anonymous
05/18/2020 20:41
Subject: Langley 2020 College Destinations
Anonymous
05/18/2020 20:41
Subject: Re:Langley 2020 College Destinations
Anonymous wrote:If you have rich parents, why would you bother to even go to college?
Many Langley parents are comfortably UMC, but not wealthy enough to perpetually support their children. And why wouldn’t the children want to be self-sufficient? For kids who get to live on campus and not have to work during the school year, it’s a fun experience.
Anonymous
05/18/2020 20:38
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.
+2
The PPP likely has seen "Clueless" too many times and thinks high school is actually like that.
Anonymous
05/18/2020 20:37
Subject: Langley 2020 College Destinations
Anonymous
05/18/2020 20:36
Subject: Re:Langley 2020 College Destinations
If you have rich parents, why would you bother to even go to college?
Anonymous
05/18/2020 20:35
Subject: Langley 2020 College Destinations
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:Mostly average colleges. Not impressed. I find that families with means and kids who can’t gain acceptance to elite universities, assert average out of state colleges as equal substitutes. Nah, not drinking that Kool Aid.
I think the point was to share the happiness of these students looking to begin the next chapter in their lives.
So why deliver a verdict on their destinations? Literally no one has claimed that the OOS schools are "equal substitutes" for the most selective schools. I bet your own kids feel like they can never satisfy you, either, even if they are at Yale.
The PP has a huge chip on his/her shoulder, as usual. How incredibly insecure does someone have to be to jump on what was supposed to be a congratulatory thread and proceed to insult hardworking, nice students.