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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Considering for next year. How do you rank these and what has been your experience - both good and bad?

St. Anselm, Landon, STA, GPrep and the Heights….[/quote]

What are the governing boards like at these schools?

Can you only be on the governing board if you are in the same clubs? Who has the most diverse boards and PA appointments?[/quote]

Also which schools have “diverse” families ie: Black or Jewish on their boards that are NOT super wealthy big donors or part of the country club scene?[/quote]

St. Anselms has a majority of their students on financial aid.  Their approach is they have a highly selective process - not only grades and teacher recommendations (not just one, but from English and Math separately), and each student applicant must take the OLSAT and the SCAT administered by the school itself.  The  scores must be very  high - not sure if there is a strict cut off, but I understand anecdotally in the 90s on both tests. The  students are also required to write two personal statements. It was by far the most rigorous of all the student applications our son did for middle school.  Once they choose, then they find a way to make it possible economically for that student to attend.  The school started off with the philosophy that there are many gifted students in underprivileged communities who will never have the chance to get a superior education, and so they feel they have a special calling to make these students an integral part of the school - not just a "diversity" number.  In that way, the school is very diverse not only racially but socio-economically.  The rigor, the diversity, the humility (the facilities are not as "modern" as any of the other privates we visited - from the "Big 3" to the other area "elite" schools), and the approach to classical education are why we applied and what we found most attractive and unique about the school.  We want our son to be not only intelligent and challenged but also grounded and of good character.  We feel St. Anselms is the place most likely to offer our son an environment where that could become reality.[/quote]

The majority are not on financial aid. [/quote]

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