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...took an accounting job at Arthur Andersen and, after a stint in the Houston office, put in for a transfer to New York City. There she developed a taste for summers in the Hamptons, playground to Manhattan's elite, and winters swimming with stingrays in the Caribbean. Before long, she sounded like any other perpetually irritated New Yorker, haranguing cabdrivers who took the long way home to her small Upper East Side apartment. "New York kind of toughens you up for people doing the right thing," she says. "It almost makes you call bulls___ faster...
Although students from the Harrington and Fitzgerald Schools will receive what D’Alessandro calls “priority transfer rights” to move to any school within the district—which operates under a choice system for elementary school placement that balances for race and socioeconomic status—parents worry that the student bodies would be broken...
...after Independence Day in 2001 (this could only be an American Christmas story), Minuto filed suit against Harvard for, among other things, breach of contract after his transfer request was denied. A redshirt freshman at Tulane University who had once starred at quarterback for Northern Highlands Regional High School in New Jersey, Minuto contended that Murphy and then-assistant Bruce Tall promised him that his transfer request would be successful, that the rest of the admissions process was a formality and that he should drop his Tulane commitments and any other transfer plans to pack his bags for Cambridge...
...Murphy and Tall. Or it may have been the sheer implausibility of winning admission on the strength of alleged promises by an Ivy League football coach—especially since Harvard admissions offers described Minuto as “very weak academically.” (Minuto’s transfer application, public record since being introduced in the suit, reveals a 3.33 grade point average at Tulane his first semester, a 1260 SAT score and an admiration of Joseph Heller’s “extensive vocabulary and use of words from the war and time period?...
Given the reality that only 7 percent of Harvard’s transfer applicants were admitted at the time, these weren’t good signs. Minuto dropped the suit, and Harvard representatives declared the result a vindication of both the admissions and athletic departments...