First-Generation Hamtramck High School Senior Accepted to Harvard on Full Ride

When Mst Begum opened her Harvard acceptance letter, she was in shock.

“Harvard had always been a dream that felt out of reach,” she said.

The Hamtramck High School senior is the daughter of Bangladeshi immigrants and the first in her family to go to college. Growing up in a low-income household where her parents never attended college, even applying to school felt far away.

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