Anonymous
Post 12/10/2025 10:15     Subject: St. Anselm's Abbey High School
We are a new family to SAAS. DS is a new Form III (9th grade) student. It is a great education and a really nice community. The rapid growth in DS's executive functioning and maturity in only a few months is stunning. And the school is truly diverse, both in terms of race and socio-economic status.
Anonymous
Post 12/09/2025 15:19     Subject: St. Anselm's Abbey High School
St. Anselm's is a popular applicant choice among the boys at our K-8 this year, and though it's a small sample size, I've heard similar things from friends at other schools. More popular than in recent years.
Anonymous
Post 10/10/2025 11:15     Subject: St. Anselm's Abbey High School
Anonymous wrote:For parents of current and former SAAS students: I think my son might be a good fit for the school, but he is in early elementary at a DC public school still. What can I help do to prepare him for SAAS? We don't have a lot of money for tutoring schools, unfortunately.


Read a lot! That more than anything else will help. Go to library. No need to buy books. If you’re a good reader, all the humanities will fall into place. As for math, develop critical thinking skills. Logic puzzles.
Anonymous
Post 10/10/2025 05:36     Subject: St. Anselm's Abbey High School
For parents of current and former SAAS students: I think my son might be a good fit for the school, but he is in early elementary at a DC public school still. What can I help do to prepare him for SAAS? We don't have a lot of money for tutoring schools, unfortunately.
Anonymous
Post 10/03/2025 17:49     Subject: St. Anselm's Abbey High School
Anonymous wrote:Funny story about SAAS and my DS. He was a mid Abbey student and an active but mid Abbey athlete. Abbey got him into a Top 20 LAC not mentioned so far in this thread. It’s D3 and he became a mid athlete (different sport than SAAS) in college that managed to compete in two D3 NCAA playoffs with his team. His teammates had a minor league pipeline into a major tech company. DS was ultimately recruited by TechCo and has had an enjoyable five year career there despite a hyper competitive culture. When asked, DS credits SAAS for his success.



Congrats on raising a rugger!
Anonymous
Post 10/03/2025 17:05     Subject: St. Anselm's Abbey High School
Anonymous wrote:Funny story about SAAS and my DS. He was a mid Abbey student and an active but mid Abbey athlete. Abbey got him into a Top 20 LAC not mentioned so far in this thread. It’s D3 and he became a mid athlete (different sport than SAAS) in college that managed to compete in two D3 NCAA playoffs with his team. His teammates had a minor league pipeline into a major tech company. DS was ultimately recruited by TechCo and has had an enjoyable five year career there despite a hyper competitive culture. When asked, DS credits SAAS for his success.



That’s a really nice story. Congrats to your DS!
Anonymous
Post 10/03/2025 15:42     Subject: St. Anselm's Abbey High School
Funny story about SAAS and my DS. He was a mid Abbey student and an active but mid Abbey athlete. Abbey got him into a Top 20 LAC not mentioned so far in this thread. It’s D3 and he became a mid athlete (different sport than SAAS) in college that managed to compete in two D3 NCAA playoffs with his team. His teammates had a minor league pipeline into a major tech company. DS was ultimately recruited by TechCo and has had an enjoyable five year career there despite a hyper competitive culture. When asked, DS credits SAAS for his success.

Anonymous
Post 10/02/2025 21:56     Subject: St. Anselm's Abbey High School
SAAS is an impressive school.
Anonymous
Post 10/02/2025 15:37     Subject: St. Anselm's Abbey High School
My son has found college pretty easy to manage. He’s in a tough STEM program and is looking at an honors degree. SAAS prepared him well.
Anonymous
Post 10/01/2025 22:43     Subject: Re:St. Anselm's Abbey High School
There are so many things we appreciate about this school. One of them is that they encourage a true love of learning and curiosity.

Having a child who learns because he wants to and feels encouraged and challenged is the goal for us. When he chooses a college we want him to land at a place where he can continue to take joy in learning and find camaraderie.

This means we are not obsessed with a status outcome (ivy, etc).
Anonymous
Post 10/01/2025 21:18     Subject: St. Anselm's Abbey High School
Anonymous wrote:If they aren’t the same thing, I’d much prefer to send my son to a “really good school” than a “name brand” school, and I’m glad the boys at the Abbey are focusing on quality and not just subjective reputation alone.

And FWIW, USC, Georgetown, Middlebury, and Swarthmore have gargantuan name recognition in their respective category of college (research university or liberal arts).


No dog in this fight but so does UT Austin as a state flagship...and their OOS acceptance rate was at 5% for class of 2029.
Anonymous
Post 10/01/2025 18:27     Subject: St. Anselm's Abbey High School
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I don't understand your point -- what does turning down really good schools with limited name recognition prove exactly?

P.S. The general public outside the DCUM bubble (both in the US and around the world) has basically no clue about USC, Georgetown, Middlebury, and Swarthmore.


The general public is the “mob.” Who cares what they think.


So edgy.
Anonymous
Post 10/01/2025 16:28     Subject: St. Anselm's Abbey High School
Anonymous wrote:We can stop feeding the troll. Such a pointless conversation. "Name brand" lol.

You realize that it's the SAAS boosters who brought up the terms "brand" and "name-brand" first in this thread?
Anonymous
Post 10/01/2025 16:14     Subject: St. Anselm's Abbey High School
Anonymous wrote:I don't understand your point -- what does turning down really good schools with limited name recognition prove exactly?

P.S. The general public outside the DCUM bubble (both in the US and around the world) has basically no clue about USC, Georgetown, Middlebury, and Swarthmore.


The general public is the “mob.” Who cares what they think.
Anonymous
Post 10/01/2025 14:27     Subject: St. Anselm's Abbey High School
We can stop feeding the troll. Such a pointless conversation. "Name brand" lol.