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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Landon's goalie was a transfer from the Heights.  St Albans FO guy is a transfer from Sidwell.  St Andrew's has a transfer from the Heights.  Bullis had 1 transfer from SSSA and 1 from MSJ in Baltimore.  Almost all local schools get transfer students.  
[b]Not sure why the negative comments about Bullis. [/b] 
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There have been numerous posts about Football players who come into Bullis for the fall and leave after football season. Bullis has also taken many Senior transfers or students kicked out of other schools. While other schools are taking some transfers, Bullis is doing it on another level.[/quote]

FAKE NEWS...Bullis has never taken a senior transfer for the fall and leave after the football season.  Bullis has never taken a student that has been expelled from another school.

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The two sports at Bullis that rely heavily on upperclass transfers are football and basketball.  I don't know of any other IAC school which accepts [b]senior[/b] transfers, as Bullis does.  At those schools, it's an admissions policy, not an athletic dept. policy.  That's a lot of why they get the scrutiny, I think.  I haven't heard of them bringing in senior transfers for lacrosse, though (although I guess if they wanted to they would be supported by the school).  I remember people thought a senior transfer from Blake left after football season to go back to his home HS but I don't think that was the case.  Re: whether Bullis accepts students who were disciplined at other places I believe it has happened -- can think of a specific example in football -- but personally I don't have a problem with giving kids second chances.

This is getting further afield from lacrosse but a prior poster wanted a school with good lacrosse and good academics, and the debate started over the assertion that Bullis, while a school that many families like, is regarded as #6 in academic prestige in the 6-team IAC.  The "we'll take them for just a year" transfer policy is part of why that perception of Bullis exists.  By way of analogy, college sports programs that rely heavily on junior college transfers are generally not seen as the strongest academic/athletic destinations.  Admissions policies matter when it comes to academic prestige -- it is why the Ivy League has the Academic Index.  They are well aware that without some limits, admission for sports could water down the perception of the Ivies as elite academic institutions.

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