Homeless Teen Defies Odds And Is Now Harvard Bound


homeless teen is now Harvard bound

It is tough trying to make ends meet. Sometimes you have to take on a second job, if you were lucky enough to find a first. There are many families that work really hard to pay their bills, and still have enough left over to exist on. But being homeless is even tougher. Sometimes you're lucky, and you can live out of your car, but many homeless people have to rely on living in shelters when space is available while others have to take to the streets. In this kind of a situation you would find it hard to consider someone able to save their money to do anything, and going to college would seem to be out of the question. Well, a young woman was able to defy the odds, and is now bound for Harvard.

homeless teen working as a custodian at high school

A North Carolina teenager, Dawn Loggins, who was abandoned by her family, kept working hard in school to get the grades that she needed to graduate. Dawn had been used to her family having to move from place to place, getting evicted several times throughout her teenage years. When she was 16, Dawn came home one day to find that her family had left, and now she was on her own. She got a job as a custodian at her high school, and still continued to take advanced placement courses while she worked to make enough money to survive.

homeless teen studies in school to get ready for Harvard Working on her homework helped to keep Dawn focused on what was important, and not have lingering thoughts about her family abandoning her, and now having to figure out how to survive. All that hard work paid off, and now Dawn has been accepted into Harvard, and plans to major in biology. She is also working to form a non-profit to help other struggling students. Apparently, there are other students at Dawn's high school who are also homeless, and are having a hard time keeping things going. Below is the news video that covered this story.

homeless teen gets accepted to Harvard



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