By Maria Carla Chicuen
This publication is the definitive source to assist high-achieving, low-income scholars entry the absolute best university. the writer attracts from her wide adventure in schooling to supply suggestion on very important facets of the trail to school corresponding to pursuing a robust highschool curriculum, getting ready for standardized checks, complementing studying in class, constructing management, and discovering professional support and function models—all via reasonable concepts. within the ebook, the writer additionally courses scholars throughout the collage program and choice approaches, in addition to the stairs to procure adequate monetary reduction.
From the first actual web page, the writer sheds mild on her personal trip to varsity via deeply own vignettes, demonstrating by means of instance that scholars with few assets can achieve and prevail on the best universities within the United States.
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