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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]

Agreed that most are not quirky and with neu-differences.  There are some quirky kids for sure, but my DS goes there and I've been around lots of his friends and I think saying they are all quirky etc. is just inaccurate.

With regards to acceptance rates at St. Anselm's, some people are not going to apply because they know it's not the right fit for their son given the academic rigor, some are not going to apply because it's single-sex, some are not going to apply because it's Benedictine, and some are not going to apply because it's location is less convenient than some of the other top schools.  So it may be that they take a higher percent of their applicants, but it's entirely possible that a lot of people are opting not to apply here for some of these reasons while they are applying to the other top schools.

There's no way to answer the original question in this thread because there are so many variables that influence the number of applicants and the number of available spaces.[/quote]

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