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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just for the fun of it I looked at the St. Anselm's college list.

Are people at St. A so snotty that they would turn their nose up at a kid going to those colleges?

To the, PP, I agree I want my kids to broaden their views, which is why we will probably leave our school for a different HS even though it goes through 12th, only 10 kids will leave. Most of St. A kids are together since they were 4, not since 4th, since they were 4 years old, until they are 18.

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About 30-32 kids out of a graduating class at St. Albans of 75-80 started at Beauvoir.  About 13-15 non-Beauvoir kids come in at 4th grade, and then more students join the class in 6th, 7th, and 9th grade.  I agree that a lot of the class is together for a significant amount of time but there's good new blood in high school too and they all seem close, not tired of each other, by the end of high school.

St. Anselm's might have the most intellectually oriented atmosphere of the three schools as, to their credit, they have avoided joining the sports arms race.

St. Albans, with its larger size and cross-registration with NCS, does offer a wider selection of academic courses, paired with small class sizes, and the faculty is very impressive.  STA has a bright cohort as well -- a higher percentage of National Merit Semifinalists over the years than St. Anselm's, for example (which does very well itself).

Georgetown Prep is also a very good school, as others have noted, with the strongest sports program of the three and a great tradition of Jesuit education in the DC area.  In recent years they do appear to be going through a bit more of a soul-searching phase than STA or St. Anselm's, both of which seem comfortable with their identities as institutions.

I agree that the "vibe" may be fairly different from school to school, so perhaps if the son goes on a re-visit and really talks through the results with his parents, a consensus will emerge.

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