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Jenny Rodriguez

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Jenny Rodriguez is a freshman at American University.

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Posted inHigher Education, Immigration, Opinion, Student Voices

STUDENT VOICE: The first in my family to go to college, thanks to a scholarship — and a borrowed van

Jenny Rodriguez by Jenny Rodriguez

My parents moved to America from Ecuador in the 1990s, and have always worked hard to make ends meet. As I was growing up, there was no question that education was the most important thing to them. The expectations for my sister, brother and me were high. In some of my earliest memories, my parents […]