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My foster daughter wants to apply to Howard. She's had a pretty sketchy educational background -- foster parents that didn't really make her go to school, attended a notoriously bad inner city high school until she moved in with me a year ago. Now she's in a much more challenging school and is taking challenging classes but her GPA is 3.0 and her SAT scores are not good -- 440 verbal, 370 math, 450 writing. She's got some interesting extracurricular activities -- docent at the California African American Museum, spokesperson for Children Uniting Nations. But are kids overcoming difficult circumstances a dime-a-dozen at Howard?
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