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I am familiar with St Anselms.  I know someone who works there and several families with sons there.  The boys who attend are all, except one, exceptionally smart but also quirky, and all but two display some attributes of neu-differences.  All are very high functioning and capable of operating in the normal world.  They just would not get in to, say Sidwell or STA, because their behavioral quirks are too outside the "norm" from those completely mainstream and rigorous schools.

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My DS goes there.  Most of the kids do not have neu-differences.  Some do, including my DS, but most do not.  Many kids go there not because they couldn't get into Sidwell but because they come from families that are Catholic and value the religious aspect of the school.[/quote]

My DS is also a student there, and plenty NT.  Some of us like the school -- and wouldn't have even considered Sidwell -- because we value the diversity, lack of pretention, and location (which fosters the first two as well).  And the strong emphasis on service and spirituality, which is not exactly something I hear routinely about the Big 3.[/quote]

You might be very pleasantly surprised if you took a closer look at Sidwell, especially at the spiritual and service-focus aspects.  I Aldo haven't found the community to be at all pretentious, but I guess that's a matter of opinion and based on who you happen to know.  I've also heard terrific things all around about St. amselm's.  [/quote]

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