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Brunswick, fred phillips! >> take it all the way. >> reporter: all the way means the finals at the naacp competition in kansas city. >> you're doing it! >> reporter: $2,000 is at stake. but he's prepared and ready. >> i actually wanted to experience the character so some days i didn't eat, just to feel hunger, some days i can't sleep. some days i didn't shower so i could feel the nastiness. today, i wasn't going to brush

>> reporter: the college also heard from someone else. did you pull strings to get fred into college? >> pull strings? >> reporter: or whatever phrase you care to use, snap your fingers, pick up the phone? >> i picked up the phone to make sure nothing got lost in the sauce and fred didn't fall between the cracks. >> reporter: what's that mean, lost in the sauce? >> fred was not your classic college applicant. and he was not heavily sought after in colleges. fred had academic challenges, financial challenges. i didn't want to trust his high school counselors to be his primary advocates, and so ...

Health aide to make ends meet. >> i happy to know he has people in his life who cares for him, people that if i'm not around, he has people he can really rely on, he can, you know, run to. >> this is the application. what was the s.a.t. >> reporter: christie stepped up as fred's mentor. her church and now his extended family. >> i'm saving the application. >> the key is for someone like christie to leverage our institutional resources and my personal capacity and make it available for the young people who have the desire to grow. >> i want to thank y'all for keeping me on the straight path ins...

So well today. what's going on? i had to tell him what the deal was. >> reporter: was it embarrassing? >> yeah. quite. quite. >> reporter: how hard is it going to be if you have to give this up? >> well, you know what, soledad, it could be worse. it's not going to be so bad. it really isn't. i'm all right. >> reporter: really? >> but i don't think i'll have to give it up. >> reporter: okay. as fred tries to figure out his college finances he hits an unexpected bump. >> after careful consideration of your application to king university -- >> reporter: carl fields job search is getting desperate...

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