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"A lot of the kids we are helping are thinking about going to college and just don't know how to get there," Jackson says. "We try to dispell the myth that college is an ivory tower."
And while CHANCE's volunteers can never be certain their efforts are making a difference, sometimes the payoff is obvious.
But for every student CHANCE convinces about Harvard's commitment to the community, there are several others who continue to resent Harvard students.
Says Rodriguez, "Some of my friends who don't go to the program think that Harvard students are so up on their attitudes and don't want to deal with people who aren't close to them."
And CHANCE's officers have started to worry about the problem of exactly who they're helping at Rindge and Latin. They say the students they tutor are already academically motivated, and are looking to go to college. And that limits the program's reach, they add.