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...Cruz graduated from Trenton, New Jersey's public high school, where about two-thirds of the student body drops out before graduation. The son of poor immigrants from Puerto Rico and Costa Rica, he never thought of applying to agood college, much less Harvard...
...hadn't the faintest idea of coming toHarvard," Cruz recalls. "A Harvard alumnus calledto ask me to apply, so I did. If the alumnirecruiter hadn't come along, I probably would havegone to a local state college or to a communitycollege," he adds...
...Cruz's work study earnings at Harvardcontributed not only to his school expenses, butalso to his family. His freshman year, he held twojobs so that he could help his family financially."My mother needed $150 to see the eye doctor and Ionce sent my 17-year-old sister money so she wouldnot be evicted from her apartment," explains Cruz...
...Cruz's work hours often left him little timefor studying. According to him, this and his poorpreparation for Harvard gave him countlessacademic headaches. Before coming to Harvard hehad dreamt of being a chemical engineer, but hechanged his plans after freshman year. He says hewas competing with students who had already takenadvanced placement math and science courses inhigh school--opportunities his school had notoffered...
Influenced by working on a project on PuertoRican immigration with Coles, Cruz decided onsociology instead...