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...journey that would bring the 24-year-old Woo through the gates of Harvard Yard—after she survived addiction and homelessness—would be a rarity among her peers...
...Woo, whose parents are Chinese and caucasian, grew up lower middle-class in Manchester, N.H. Her mother was a pre-school teacher and her father worked in retail...
When she was in middle school, Woo already knew she wanted a quality education. She won a scholarship to Phillips Exeter Academy in eighth grade and attended the boarding school until her junior year, when the stress of finding her place in a wealthy world—a K-Mart brand-clad teenager bobbing in a sea of students in J-Crew and Northface—led her to drugs...
...pretty well academically, but socially, it was just was a mess,” Woo said. “I struggled really, really badly with the disparity in wealth there. I was not at all prepared I think for the cultural divide between the background I came from and the amount of wealth at the school...
...that point, suffering from addiction to cocaine and other stimulants such as methamphetamine, Woo dropped out of school, moved in with acquaintances in Manchester, and fell deeper into meth addiction...