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[quote=Anonymous]I am a St Anselms alum.  Nerdy is fine, but the student needs to have academic ability not just an interest in dungeons and dragons.  The common factor at the school is academics over other factors and while that will skew the student body toward “nerdy”, nerdy isn’t the gating criteria.  The abbey has also dialed up the Catholicism in recent history, which you need to be comfortable with…

In general, I think the school gets an unfair reputation for exclusively “nerdy” and in reverse, a few other schools get unfair reputations for not being accepting of nerdiness.

With that in mind, it’s not single sex but I’d look at Potomac.  I’m good friends with several of my contemporaries who attended and I have friends kids who went there/go there and I think most abbey boys would do well there and be challenged.

Another one is STA, again, I know a good number of families with ties there.  The school is academically rigorous and have groups of boys each year who fit the abbey profile.  They also have a very traditional approach and environment that is similar to the abbey.

The biggest problem with the abbey is the fact that it’s NOT well rounded.  If you want balls to the wall academic rigor, then sure… but that’s rarely the only answer for most boys.

If I lived in Vienna I don’t think I’d drive further than Potomac and STA to get to the Abbey unless my boy fit the abbey profile to an absolute T and was likely to be in the top 5 of his class.   [/quote]

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