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...Seeing the Ivies opened up a whole new world for him,” says Zambrano’s mother, Rosalind Chamarro-Padillo. “He would call everyday and say, ‘Mom, I saw Harvard! We’re going to Princeton tomorrow!’ Oh my God, it was wonderful...
...With Zambrano came back from LEDA to California in the fall, mother and son sat down to edit essays. “We spent a week and a half trying to cut it from 1,200 words to 500,” Zambrano says...
...potential payoff for Zambrano is great. Chamorro-Padilla says her yearly income totals about $60,000, which means the family might qualify for HFAI. The financial picture, however, will ultimately depend on whether Zambrano’s father, who is divorced from his mother, decides to pitch in. “We’re trying to contact him about that,” Zambrano says...
...There will always be a more privileged, better-connected applicant. Nehamas says that his family’s connections to the school won’t be enough. His cousin, whose mother teaches at the medical school, applied early years ago. She was ultimately rejected. “Very smart, great grades, and she actually didn’t get in,” says Nehamas...
...seems to be very important to a lot of people, and it’s good that higher education is important,” Susan D. Glimcher, Nehamas’ mother, says, “I sometimes wonder about the reasons, like you need to have a good education to make a lot of money. For me it goes without saying that education goes well beyond that. It’s very good that education’s become very important, you sometimes wonder why people are valuing...