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...Murray completed high school in two years, all while living on the street—rather than with an abusive grandfather who housed her sister—and occasionally spending the night with friends or in the subway...
...Murray soon rose to the top of her class and was encouraged by the staff at Humanities Prep to go to college...
...just felt like so many things had gone wrong, I had been denied so many opportunities,” Murray says. “I had to pull myself out of where I was if I was going to move...
...Murray applied for several scholarships, and her story attracted the attention of the New York Times Scholarship Program, a fund which gives students who have overcome great obstacles in their lives the opportunity to attend top-tier universities...
Staff members at the then-fledgling program took Murray under their wing, steering her through the college application process and taking care of basic needs that had been neglected in her years on the street...