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college prep

daia students in front of the central library sign
Guest Blogger, August 14, 2024

Education is an opportunity for anyone to be successful. Growing up in between apartments and houses located in immigrant neighborhoods, my dreams to attend college were brittle, driven by my Chicano identity but lacking sufficient resources to attend higher education.


Berkeley student Ashley Park
Guest Blogger, October 07, 2019

As I bid farewell to my high school and head to college, I can’t help but reminisce about what it felt like, at that time, as the most important four years of my life.


Flags of the Ivy League Universities fly over Columbia's Wien Stadium
Guest Blogger, April 02, 2019

I grew up in a small affluent neighborhood north of downtown Los Angeles called Porter Ranch.


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