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Teen gets accepted to 17 colleges after overcoming homelessness
Dylan Chidick, 17, recently got accepted to a number of U.S. colleges despite facing multiple hardships.Courtesy Destiny Jackson
Once someone who said she felt she had no options, a teenager now has been accepted to more than 50 colleges for the upcoming academic year, according to her high school.
Destiny Jackson, 18, ran away from an abusive home in Philadelphia when she was just 13 years old, she said.
Courtesy of Destiny Jackson(NEW YORK) Once someone who said she felt she had no options, a teenager now has been accepted to more than 50 colleges for the
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Homeless Student Beat the Odds, Graduating From College, Now Has Sights Set on Doctorate
A man who was homeless as a child and lived on the streets with his parents has beaten the odds and is now set to enter a doctoral program at UCA in the fall.
Mich Hamlin, now 24, had lived with his parents and two brothers on the streets of southern California since he was 6 years old.
“I guess I was so accustomed to our living situation that I never really processed that, ‘Oh, kids actually go home and have a bed, a shower and warm food on the table every night,’” Hamlin told UCA News.
Two children have died after running away from residential treatment centers in Colorado. Police said they are overwhelmed with calls from these places.