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Never content to chat too long with just one clique of soon-to-be Harvard graduates, Caleb I. Franklin ’05 spent the senior wine tasting trip confidently bouncing in and out of conversations, his braids spinning as he turned to talk to someone...
...Franklin speaks quickly, punctuating his sentences with a hearty and unthreatening laugh in between his ironic or hyperbolic one-liners. For example, he says, “you have to be, like, Phi Beta Kappa and God” to get a Harvard-Cambridge scholarship, explaining why one of his friends didn’t receive the fellowship...
...Franklin is a Los Angeles native, hailing from the part of the city most people know as South Central. When he was in sixth grade, he became a “better chance” scholar, participating in a national program that prepares minority students for admissions to elite schools. He attended the Brentwood School, a private school on Sunset Boulevard, where he was elected head prefect—student body president. He was also a Ron Brown scholar, a Riordan scholar, and first violin in the Pasadena Youth Orchestra...
...Franklin doesn’t call his youth in Los Angeles an inner-city success story...
Optimistic and extroverted, Franklin came to Harvard in fall 2001, landing in Straus A. A neighbor dared him to attend the first meeting of introductory Urdu-Hindi—the language most commonly spoken on the Indian subcontinent. He ended up taking three years of the language to get a citation, which led him to accept a post-graduation gig in Bombay, India. He will study film and assist in tsunami relief there...