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When the time came for her to apply to colleges as a senior at Long Beach Polytechnic High School, Ocon seriously considered only Ivy League institutions...
...pretty arrogant," Ocon says. "My back-up schools were Duke and Notre Dame...
Admission to Harvard was a dream-come-true for Ocon, a Lakewood, Calif., native who dreamed of attending Harvard Law School even before junior high...
...Ocon also applied to and was accepted by three of the nation's military academies. But when her eyesight deteriorated and Ocon learned she would never be able to fly fighter jets, she came to Harvard expecting to concentrate in government and prepared to make the most of what she felt would be the experience of a life-time...
...just say I was a little overstimulated as a freshman," Ocon says. "I had to know everyone in my class. I spent more time on extracurriculars than my school-work...