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From daily tutoring programs to an undergraduate-coached basketball team, Harvard students spend a lot of time working with the high school students next-door. Phillips Brooks House Association (PBHA) deploys about 40 students regularly in its work with Rindge and Latin, and other groups such as the Housing and Neighborhood Development Program (HAND) send platoons of undergraduate volunteers...
Jackson, the treasurer of the two-year-old Committee on Help for the Advancement of Needy Children through Education (CHANCE), says the gulf is wide between the ivory tower and public high school...
...CHANCE and others who tutor Rindge and Latin students face some tough statistics. About 60 percent of graduating seniors at Rindge go on to four-year colleges, but the school's average combined SAT scores were 47 points below the national average...
...thought that I could get so involved with Harvard," Rodriguez says. "My impression used to be that [Harvard students] didn't want to help the community and didn't have the time. Students would look at me funny when I walked around, campus and they would think, "This high school student shouldn't be here.' Now I sort of look up to them...
Rene Meshon, a guidance counselor with Rindge and Latin's Student Service Center, oversees the school's selection of students whom it recommends to participate in CHANCE each year...