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Only two Monroe graduates had ever gone on to Harvard before, in 1952 and 1956, "back when the Bronx was all white," Ramos says. Today, the school's population is predominantly Puerto Rican, Dominican and African-American...
Another student from the Bronx, Julissa Reynoso '98, was able to earn a scholarship to Aquinas High School, a private Catholic school. About 60 percent of her graduating class went on to higher education, but mostly to community colleges...
...able to get her first real taste of a world outside of the South Bronx when she went to Georgetown University for a summer program...
...never been exposed to a world outside of South Bronx," Reynoso recalls. "Rarely did I go to downtown Manhattan where there were a lot of white people and a lot of wealthy people. There was a clear line of division between those people and where I lived...
Ramos agrees. "I was surprised by the amount of money students had here. I was surprised a lot of black people weren't on financial aid either. From where I was from, all the black people were poor," says the South Bronx resident, who is Puerto Rican...