Post by Logan on Jun 9, 2016 0:21:50 GMT -6
$300M plan: Mercersburg Academy aims to break prep-school stereotype
MERCERSBURG, Pa. - A Haitian immigrant and the daughter of an Asbury Park, N.J., taxi driver, Withney Barthelemy was not exactly the prototypical candidate for an elite prep school.
But at the behest of a teacher, she applied to a 300-acre boarding school deep in the hills of south-central Pennsylvania - Mercersburg Academy - and it offered her a full scholarship.
"It provided me with so many opportunities I wouldn't have had any other way," said Barthelemy, who moved to the United States when she was 4. "I felt like I was wanted despite the economic background I had."
She had what might be viewed as a dream high school career.
Read more at www.philly.com/philly/education/20160608_A_plan_to_break_stereotype_of_snobbery.html
MERCERSBURG, Pa. - A Haitian immigrant and the daughter of an Asbury Park, N.J., taxi driver, Withney Barthelemy was not exactly the prototypical candidate for an elite prep school.
But at the behest of a teacher, she applied to a 300-acre boarding school deep in the hills of south-central Pennsylvania - Mercersburg Academy - and it offered her a full scholarship.
"It provided me with so many opportunities I wouldn't have had any other way," said Barthelemy, who moved to the United States when she was 4. "I felt like I was wanted despite the economic background I had."
She had what might be viewed as a dream high school career.
Read more at www.philly.com/philly/education/20160608_A_plan_to_break_stereotype_of_snobbery.html