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[quote=Anonymous]If we are talking only about academics and school culture (not family wealth), O’Connell is a smaller version of a public school and similar to other diocese High Schools.

The Heights is an intentional choice to choose a different path for your son. For better or worse, their culture will teach your son that he can either be a good man/husband/father or become a priest. Those are the only paths. The Heights does not teach self interested ambition. They are not focused on material wealth. They don’t allow narcissistic tendencies and they teach boys that the purpose of life is suffering and salvation. The Opus Dei culture is front and center. There is a lot charity work, though always Catholic based, a lot of helping others and making real sacrifices.

The Heights does have objectively good college placement because the graduates are living the path many Universities claim to want for graduates. A life of charity and service and greater purpose. Even if the graduates come at it from a Catholic perceptive regarding who they help and how, they are doing a lot of charity work.

The Heights is different from the typical Catholic high schools which exist all over the country graduating 100,000 kids a year. Kids from O’Connell aren’t that different from all the other Catholic High Schools in the country.  The Heights is different and Universities do they like different.

So if you’re trying to stack the deck on your chances of getting into certain schools, go with The Heights. But the culture may be too weird for a regular Catholic.

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