No Pell grants, loans, or work study
Gloria Montiel, Ed.M.’11, can’t recall the first time she heard about a place called Harvard, but from the sixth grade on, she could dream of nothing else.
Harvard offered a generous scholarship but still pegged her required contribution at $3,000 a year – a small amount to some, but not to a struggling, undocumented family ineligible for a Pell grant, work study, or federal loans
“I was sure I was going to go there,” says Montiel, who set about figuring out how. (mais…)