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[quote=Anonymous]Messina initially came about when BC bought the Pine Manor campus and needed a way to help Pine Manor students get to a degree. These were disadvantaged students. Is it surprising that this is evolving into a guaranteed transfer program per the above comments? No, not really. But if that's what this is, I don't understand the fuss. So a few big donor kids with weak academics slipped into the program, I don't see the problem. They'd still have to prove themselves through Messina. What the article just did is to loudly encourage donations from a bunch of such families, full of legacy attachment to the school and flush with cash, to hope a kid with weaker academics can attend. To be clear, if the kid had the academic stats, they'd get in through the front door unless BC thought the kid was act[/quote]
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