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...other side of the country, Zambrano is worried. He’s received his SAT scores from October; he scored a 1990. He had hoped to break...
...With Zambrano came back from LEDA to California in the fall, mother and son sat down to edit essays. “We spent a week and a half trying to cut it from 1,200 words to 500,” Zambrano says...
...Zambrano had to work at balancing his homework with the application. His grandparents had recently moved into the master bedroom, where the computer is kept. “My grandparents go to sleep really early, so I only had a couple hours to do both,” Zambrano says...
...potential payoff for Zambrano is great. Chamorro-Padilla says her yearly income totals about $60,000, which means the family might qualify for HFAI. The financial picture, however, will ultimately depend on whether Zambrano’s father, who is divorced from his mother, decides to pitch in. “We’re trying to contact him about that,” Zambrano says...
...That’s good news for Zambrano, who is hoping for “a little bit of slack on the SAT scores.” Perhaps they’ll put more weight on other parts of his applications, like his essays, which he sees as the strongest part of his application: “It’s not numbers and letters,” he says. “It’s the closest they can get to actually knowing me as a person rather than from a computer screen or numbers...