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[quote author=ca245 link=topic=16968.msg194658#msg194658 date=1497116331]
IIRC, this is not the first time Stanford accepted a homeless student. Some 15 (?) years ago or so, another homeless girl was accepted. I believe she was from somewhere in CA. I first read about it in a local paper and, later, Stanford Magazine had a story on her Stanford experience.

It was closer to 30 years ago. She was in the same dorm as the son of a friend of mine. She and her family had been living in a homeless shelter for a while and then her father became the handyman for the shelter. They still lived there, but I think had their own quarters. I think it was in far southern CA. I remember an interview with her when she said her dorm room in Lagunita was so quiet she had a hard time studying; she'd gotten completely accustomed to studying with her younger siblings making a racket all around her.
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Indeed, it was in the late 1980s; Lupe Vasquez had been living in a homeless shelter in Oxnard before moving into her freshman dorm.

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http://articles.latimes.com/1990-09-10/l...university

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[quote author=ca245 link=topic=16968.msg194658#msg194658 date=1497116331]
IIRC, this is not the first time Stanford accepted a homeless student. Some 15 (?) years ago or so, another homeless girl was accepted. I believe she was from somewhere in CA. I first read about it in a local paper and, later, Stanford Magazine had a story on her Stanford experience.

It was closer to 30 years ago. She was in the same dorm as the son of a friend of mine. She and her family had been living in a homeless shelter for a while and then her father became the handyman for the shelter. They still lived there, but I think had their own quarters. I think it was in far southern CA. I remember an interview with her when she said her dorm room in Lagunita was so quiet she had a hard time studying; she'd gotten completely accustomed to studying with her younger siblings making a racket all around her.
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Indeed, it was in the late 1980s; Lupe Vasquez had been living in a homeless shelter in Oxnard before moving into her freshman dorm.

http://stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/...less------

http://articles.latimes.com/1990-09-10/l...university