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...bootstraps. It’s not that drastic, I come from a middle-class family.” Though she admits that she could have been better prepared for college, Mendez doesn’t feel estranged from her classmates who attended more exclusive private and prep schools. “I just feel like they know more chemistry than me,” she says...
...enjoyed the company of his classmates over the past year and a half. “Not having to deal with stupid people is really nice,” he says. He admits that his Western upbringing and staunch Republican politics set him apart from the East Coast prep set. “We just don’t see eye to eye on a lot of things. I think some people find me abrasive...
After a year as an exchange student, he decided to stay in the U.S. in order to go to an American university, and boarded at Montclair Prep in Los Angeles for two years. In the fall of 2001, he was contacted by the University of San Diego, Columbia, Cornell and Harvard. But Anderle had his eyes...
SOME OF YOUR MALE CLASSMATES WOULD MOVE AWAY WHEN A WOMAN STUDENT SAT NEXT TO THEM. HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THAT? A lot of the men in the class had never been in school with women before. They had gone to a boys' prep school, then a boys' college, and then Harvard Law School was supposed to be all boys, and suddenly it wasn't. I think they viewed it as some of the members of the Augusta National Golf Club view membership there--that it's their place, and women should stay...
McKiernan excelled on his high school basketball team. but it was his stellar prep volleyball career that attracted the attention of most colleges. Still, in the back of his mind, he kept the dream of playing college basketball alive. When he was given the opportunity to play, even on the JV level, he could not pass it up. He has made the most of his opportunity, becoming an integral part of the junior varsity squad...