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[quote=Anonymous]Last year I can think of two specific instances where Bullis brought in a senior athletic transfer under unusual circumstances.  (By way of comparison, most private schools do not take students just for senior year at all.)

They had a football player from Blake (public school), who stayed three months (the three months of the football season) and then went back to his prior school.  I'm sure Bullis did not intend for that to happen but it did give rise to the "rent a player" impression.  They also had a baseball player transfer into Bullis as a senior partway through the school year -- that one obviously they did know about.

There's a lot of energy at the school.  I'm not really sure how the finances will work out in the long term -- the Bullis endowment is not high, nor do they have high annual giving totals -- but maybe they will do it with foreign full-pay students (plenty of room to build a dorm) or maybe the same people who gave the Jumbo Tron are giving towards endowment and annual giving.

It will be interesting.  Their Head had pretty good success at his prior school (a STEM magnet boarding school), but that school was subsidized by the state.  [/quote]

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