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Of anxiety about making new friends while their parents feel a mix of sadness and joy that's always a part of these great transitional moments. and of course the parents feel a great deal of anxiety about how to pay for college. but some kids have worries that most of us never experience. what is it like to go off to harvard and worry that your mother might not be able to make it economically if you don't stay home and go to a local college and get a job to help her out? how does it feel when you're at the airport going off to yale and your eyes fill with tears because you can't find the words...

Friends while their parents feel a mix of sadness and joy that's always a part of these great transitional moments. and of course the parents feel a great deal of anxiety about how to pay for college. but some kids have worries that most of us never experience. what is it like to go off to harvard and worry that your mother might not be able to make it economically if you don't stay home and go to a local college and get a job to help her out? how does it feel when you're at the airport going off to yale and your eyes fill with tears because you can't find the words to thank your single mother...

The possibilities that i'm excluding myself from and the people that i love from. but i don't regret it. and i don't think my mom regrets it at all because i can -- every time she hears about me or she just reads my acceptance letter, you know, her smile or her -- or i hear her like telling one of her friends on the phone late at night in a whispered voice so i don't hear it, you know, like bragging incessantly or something like that, it reminds me that it's all worth it. and that's kind of what keeps me going, really. >> justin, quickly before we go, has your mother had a chance to visit harv...

So you just let us know when they want to do it and when the schedule works, and we'll make sure that that's easy for them to do. okay? >> thank you. >> thank you. yeah. >> all right. justin porter and travis reginal, great guys. thank you very much for joining me. and travis, there's more for you. in a very special "rewrite." travis will show us a better way of saying thank you and a better way of saying i love you. because sometimes there are better ways to say those things. but only a poet can do that. travis reginal's beautiful poetry is next in the "rewrite." [ male announcer ] this is ke...

They are important stories on many, many levels, including helping us understand the troubling finding in a recent study showing that most low income students who have top s.a.t. scores do not apply to america's top colleges while 78% of students with similar test scores and higher incomes apply and get accepted at those colleges. joining me now, yale sophomore travis reginald, the son of nicki reginald, and harvard sophomore justin porter, the son of sarah perkins. justin, i want to read a line from your article yesterday in the "times" where you said you were born and raised 1,500 miles away...