Reply to St. Anslem’s Abbey School Recommend ?

Forum Index » Private & Independent Schools

Reply to "St. Anslem’s Abbey School Recommend ?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yeah, SAAS may send a few kids to top schools but many are headed to second-tier Jesuits like SLU, Xavier, Loyola(s), Providence, etc…You can queue the “that’s what they choose” or “it’s socioeconomically diverse” but the outcomes don’t equal the narrative that it’s only “for the most intellectual and curious boys.”[/quote]

Previous comment applies, oh look, another hoity-toity private school parent.[/quote]

No one is saying St. Anselm’s is more Ivy-heavy than Sidwell, GDS, Maret, or the like. It probably isn’t. Those schools have larger classes and, in absolute numbers, more top-tail placements.

But the claim that St. Anselm’s somehow does not regularly send boys to top colleges just is not supported by the data.

Even at GDS, Maret, and Sidwell, the great majority of students are not ending up at Ivy+ schools. Those are all excellent schools, but that is simply how elite private-school outcomes work. Big names, broad lists, and only a minority at the very top of the prestige ladder — and usually due to hooks independent of the school itself, like legacy and/or VIP status.

St. Anselm’s, meanwhile, regularly gets boys admitted to top-tier places. Looking at recent acceptance data, boys have been admitted to Harvard, Stanford, Penn, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Chicago, Northwestern, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Swarthmore, Williams, Vanderbilt, WashU, etc. And yes, just last year that included Harvard, Stanford, and the U.S. Naval Academy.

And the scale matters. St. Anselm’s graduating classes are much smaller than GDS, Sidwell, or Maret. So pound for pound, the outcomes are quite strong for the kind of school it is.

So sure, say Sidwell/GDS/Maret are more Ivy-heavy. And they are more clearly popularly prestigious than St. Anselm’s. Fine. But that is very different from saying St. Anselm’s does not regularly place boys at elite schools. The acceptance data says otherwise. And that’s pretty impressive for a tier down in tuition vs the blue-chip schools. 
[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics