Poor students at rich universities - out and proud

By Laura Pappano
Updated May 30 2015 - 10:14am, first published May 18 2015 - 12:15am
Out and proud: members of 1vyG, a group of students across multiple Ivy League campuses in the United States, during the first Inter-Ivy First Generation Student Network Conference at Brown University. First-generation students are organising and speaking up about what would enhance their college experience.  Photo: Charlie Mahoney
Out and proud: members of 1vyG, a group of students across multiple Ivy League campuses in the United States, during the first Inter-Ivy First Generation Student Network Conference at Brown University. First-generation students are organising and speaking up about what would enhance their college experience. Photo: Charlie Mahoney

Ana Barros grew up in a two-family house built by Habitat for Humanity, hard by the boarded-up buildings and vacant lots of Newark, New Jersey. Neither of her parents attended college, but she was a star student. With a 2200 on her SATs, she expected to fit in at Harvard.

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