How exactly are we defining borderline here? If these "borderline kids" were non-athletes and their chances for admission to U of I were 0%, i don't think we can use the word borderline. Plenty of borderline students are admitted every year, and no one frets about them "threatening the integrity of the school." If we need assurances that admitting these three or four students isn't going to threaten the academic integrity of the school as a whole, then they kinda sound well below the borderline to me.