May 12, 2006

At Smith College, a Mission to Serve the Underserved

By ANNE K. WALTERS

Without fanfare, one of the few remaining women's institutions offers financial aid and personal support to needy students

If wealthy, prestigious colleges are increasingly serving the nation's privileged elite, then Allison Bellew is not the type of student you would expect to find on the campus of one of those institutions.

She spent most of her childhood in foster care in Southern California and attended a public school in Los Angeles where more than two-thirds of the

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