<p>I mean for a typical Asian boy who is calm, understated, not so good at team sports, math-savvy, etc. and whose top choice colleges would be MIT, Carnegie Mellon, etc.</p>
<p>After reviewing some info on types of private school, it seems that the St. Grottlesex types (aka New England types) are better for kids like mine rather than so called "Southern" types such as EHS(Alexandria, VA)</p>
<p>Why so much skepticism on EHS or "Southern schools"? Seems a lot here saying it's for kids with family legacy tied to the school(and old money) and/or national/state athletes.</p>
<p>Please be brutally honest! I won't be offended by any stereotypical comments.</p>
<p>@Anonymomom: You will most likely get the best responses from the prep school parents forum where you also posted this. This is the college forum.</p>
<p>I would concur that the St Grottlesex schools have a less “jocky” culture-- SPS doesn’t even have an athletic rival school. The smaller schools (<400 kids) also tend to be less jocky.</p>
<p>If your family is “rich” enough (but not too rich) to live in an area where the public school is good enough, or there is some public magnet school in your city, this may not be a bad choice. (even though there are some downside for this, like occasionally your child may need to work on something that is not very educational, your child may need to take more ownership of his/her learning with some support from parents.)</p>
<p>In one year, the students at my child’s public high school even had a movement (organized all by the students themselves) to elect some academic nerd to be the “home coming king” - the high school students in that class just rebelled againt the “jocks are hot” high school culture.</p>
<p>Seriously, the kids in DS’s class who went to the two schools you mentioned are either Jewish or Asian kids. Both are nerdy. They were busy in math or science competitions (a must, especially when from a public school) but were not involved in any sport activities.</p>
<p>These two kids actually became a couple in high school (very late in high school years though). But they unfortunately broke up shortly after they had gone to CMU and MIT.</p>
<p>OP, I seriously doubt your child will fit in well in those southern prestigious prep schools you mentioned. This is just not your child’s strength. Put it this way, if your kid could possibly be selected as, say, a “free ride” but “lots of of required summer activities” Robinson’s Scholar at UNC due to his prowess in both academic, sport and well-roundedness, he may fit into that kind of school well (and maybe almost every type of school.)</p>
<p>There is more than one of the St. Pauls, St. Marks and St. Georges, so you need to be more specific. </p>
<p>At Portsmouth Abbey (RI) it seemed like 1/3 to 1/2 of the students were Asian. Many were literally from Asia, not just of Asian descent.</p>
<p>We saw similar things touring the Baylor School (TN).</p>
<p>There are probably some schools that would be better or worse. Frankly, I like the idea of my kids going where they are not all that common. It makes them learn to cope.</p>
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