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Knowledge is Power!
“Growing up as a kid of undocumented immigrants, Sandra Carpio was adamant that she would not struggle like her family did - and still does.
She hated seeing her mother tired from working three jobs and juggling to pay bills. Carpio knew college was her only way out. So she went to the University of Utah using a state law that allowed her to pay resident tuition. “It just takes you out of your own little world and it opens your mind,” she says of college. “
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