Once Daily Harvard reports:
These families stop at nothing to ensure that their children gain access to the best educational opportunities in the United States―with or without papers.Harvard: part of the racketeering enterprise to violate federal immigration law. No word yet on whether the illegals are getting in with same SAT scores at the whites and Asians at Harvard.
Harvard provides many such families with significant help in the way of financial aid. This is crucial for undocumented students, since citizenship is not a requirement for receiving financial aid. However, this information is not explicitly displayed on any admissions websites, complicating the road to Harvard for motivated undocumented students.
A quick phone call to the admissions office is usually enough to assuage applicant worries, and most applicants to Harvard College are willing to put in the extra work― particularly undocumented students. After all, many of these students have been dreaming of college for their entire lives. Franco-Vasquez, the cheerful and emotive human developmental and regenerative biology concentrator from Quincy House, summed up these feelings with a family memory:
“I always knew that I needed to go to college because my parents had always told me that that was my only job,” she recounted. “That was the whole reason why they came here. In fact, the very first day that my family was in the States, instead of taking us out or anything, my father took us to USC. He stood my siblings and me right next to Tommy the Trojan, and he said, ‘You guys are going here. I don’t care how many nights you have to stay up, or how much money we have to pay. We will get that money. I don’t care about all of the sacrifices we’d have to make. You guys are going to college.’”
With admissions and financial aid open to students regardless of documentation, it seems like the largest barriers to entry for undocumented students have been knocked down at Harvard. But what is life actually like for undocumented students once they arrive on campus?
