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A elder astatine Edison High School, Mayra Hernandez Garcia volition beryllium moving to Baltimore, Maryland this autumn to statesman her undergraduate studies astatine Johns Hopkins University.
Johns Hopkins University has a 7% acceptance rate.
“My hands were trembling arsenic I tried to refresh my screen, reasoning I made [the acceptance] up successful my head,” Hernandez Garcia said.
“This volition beryllium my archetypal clip surviving extracurricular of Fresno, and I americium frightened but besides truly excited for that change. Thankfully, my parents person been truly supportive, and, with that, I consciousness assured I’ll beryllium capable to look immoderate challenges that surviving distant whitethorn present.”
Hernandez Garcia is progressive and engaged connected the Edison High campus, serving arsenic an serviceman for the doctrine nine and a subordinate of the French nine and California Scholarship Federation.
She is besides progressive successful Upward Bound, a preparatory programme offered done Fresno State’s Division of Student Affairs and Enrollment Management that offers tutoring, mentorship and accomplishment improvement to assistance precocious schoolhouse students flooded adversity and execute their world and vocation aspirations.
Upward Bound chiefly serves students from low-income families oregon those who would beryllium first-generation assemblage students. The programme presently serves students astatine Edison, Madera, Madera South, Fresno, McLane and Roosevelt precocious schools.
“I joined during my freshman twelvemonth of precocious school,” Hernandez Garcia said. “I got to perceive to a batch of fantastic speakers who motivated and inspired me. I was besides fortunate capable to beryllium selected to be the National Student Leadership Conference, which helped maine determine to large successful governmental science.
“Since joining Upward Bound, I’ve gained a consciousness of assemblage wrong the programme which helped maine with being comfy with who I was. Before the program, it was hard to subordinate to radical who didn’t recognize the conflict of being a first-generation student. When I joined Upward Bound, it felt arsenic if I’d recovered a assemblage wherever we conscionable understood each other.”
Hernandez Garcia aspires to go a lawyer, practicing either law instrumentality oregon transgression defence law. She chose to use to Johns Hopkins due to the fact that of its proximity to Washington D.C. and the probe opportunities offered connected campus.
Hernandez Garcia volition beryllium the archetypal successful her household to spell to college.
“I americium excited for this accomplishment. My siblings person besides shared a tendency to use to assemblage and person displayed involvement successful wanting to spell far. I americium excited astir what volition hap successful the adjacent fewer years for maine and them, and I consciousness arrogant of what I’ve been capable to accomplish. For me, what I’ve done is spot the archetypal fewer steps indispensable for change, and I deliberation that’s a batch already.”
