McLean, Langley Graduates Excel in College Acceptances

It was a very good year for graduating seniors at McLean and Langley High Schools.

A record 93 percent of the 428-student graduating class at McLean High School are heading to college, according to principal Dr. Deborah Jackson.

“It was an amazing class,” Jackson said. “It’s a class that when you think about our global society, they will make a difference in the years to come.”

At Langley, 96 percent of the 490 graduating seniors are going to college, according to Fred Amico, assistant principal.

“LHS students were accepted to every Ivy League School except the University of Pennsylvania,” Amico said. “And there’s a new trend: This year we have more students taking a gap year and deferring their college admission.”

Langley graduates were also accepted at MIT, Stanford, Duke, Tufts, Tulane, Oberlin and the U.S. Air Force Academy, not to mention Virginia schools including the University of Virginia and William and Mary.

At McLean High School, 50 seniors were accepted at the University of Virginia and 36 will be attending, according to Jackson.

McLean’s newly minted grads are going to a wide range of colleges,  both in Virginia and across the nation. Some six percent will be going into the military, she said.

Among the schools that will be seeing MHS grads: Pomona College, the University of California at Berkley, Wesleyan University, MIT, Amherst, Northwestern and Purdue University.

McLean students "challenged themselves. They persevered for four years. They had dreams when them came here and worked hard to make their dreams become a reality," Jackson said.

The college acceptance rates for McLean and Langley are among the highest in the county.