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...Coronado, the younger of two sons of factory workers, says he feels accountable to those who have supported him. “First, there’s the set of expectations from the church. There’s a lot of talk about staying close to God. It’s like they think of my time here as a kind of hiatus, after which I’ll go back to them,” he says. “Then there’s the added cultural expectation from my parents to return home. In [their culture], it?...
...these two, Harvard wasn’t always on the radar. Coronado says he didn’t expect to get into Harvard. “It was totally a whim,” he says. “I was really hoping that I was qualified enough for Georgetown...
Both say their backgrounds had a profound impact on their paths to Harvard. “Our experience was different from most other Harvard kids in the sense that our parents weren’t college graduates,” says Coronado. “We didn’t have the opportunities that a lot of people here...
...Coronado recalls his family renting a U-Haul for first-year move-in weekend and packing almost all of his belongings. “When I got here, I realized that I couldn’t fit all that stuff in a dorm room,” he says. “I had no idea...
Once settled in, Coronado also had to contend with the inevitable class differences. “People here are not pretentious, but some of them approach money differently,” he says. “One of my roommates freshman year bought the whole room tickets to a New York Knicks game. We all assumed that we would take the bus down, but then he said that it would be $300 to get there.” The roommate had assumed the whole group would...