Student overcomes obstacles to go to college
May 6, 2008
Karen Duran, 17, didn’t know how to apply for college. And her parents couldn’t help. But she’s always known she wanted to make a better life for herself, to make her parents’ sacrifice worth it.
So she got the help she needed. She wrote about it as part of a student journalism project at Incline High School.
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