Harvard-bound student asks high school to give her scholarship away

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11. My youngest son got around 50 grand (assistance) from the school he attended. He still...

...needed to take some loans, for room and board and books, because that's how expensive the place is.

He loved that University when we went for the tour, but I was muttering to myself, "No way!" I looked at the cost of tuition and I said there was no way I could afford that place. They made it possible for him to go there, and they did a great job with him.

I told him if he has a successful career, he needs to remember all that, and "pay it forward," with that school, fund scholarships and more.

This young woman, the child of immigrants, is likely to go far. I love it that she's majoring in Chemistry, and I do hope that she will not be dissuaded of getting through it in spite of implied and active racism and sexism, which is certainly not unknown at Harvard.

A Black Physicist Is Borne Back Ceaselessly Into the Past

I want to live in a world where I can be a physicist without also being asked to speak on or compensate for the persistent racism of institutions.

Her story, told in the link, about the breadboard, blew my mind.

Hopefully this outstanding young woman will not hear, "You shouldn't be here," as Professor Prescod-Weinstein did when she was at Harvard.