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Thanks to her, I applied to a bunch of scholarships which I luckily got them all. A total of ten scholarships were given to me from different entities. I even got published in the local news’ papers in three different occasions. She also helped me to apply for colleges in which I got accepted in the majority of them. Doing poorly on the SAT because of my English limitations was the reason why those universities denied me the opportunity. Moreover, I decided to go to Kean University to pursue a career. They offered me the Spanish Speaking Program so that I could take ESL classes and at the same time take the classes that were required for my major. Everything was falling into place. The only challenge I saw at that time was the commute. Since

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