“The middle of your senior year, you have to see your counselor to see where you’re standing at, your academic standing. That’s when she just told me what I was going to do. She said, ‘Oh, just go to like a trade school, just get a certificate, or go to a community college where you get all the basics.’ I said, ‘No, I don’t want to do that , I want to go to college.’ She said, ‘No, you’re not going to college, you can’t apply.’ I ’m like, ‘Why not?’ She said, ‘They’re just not going to accept you, you’re not ranked in the top tenth of the high school.’ ”

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