"College is an opportunity to gain a higher education in pursuit of a career, and for students like Dominique Leivers, they are the first in their immediate family to do so.
Leivers (junior-political science and criminology) is a first generation student from West Philadelphia and the president of the Student Minority Advisory & Recruitment Team at Penn State.
She said she has ‘always been a good student,’ and was invested in her education, which is why she decided to come to Penn State.
However, she said her test scores weren’t as high as some of her classmates." …
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