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Scholars' Latino Initiative mentors N.C. high schoolers

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Published on Monday, 24 November 2008 15:38

Linda Herrera’s cell phone rang on a warm, Wednesday afternoon last spring. It was about 4 p.m., and the then-senior of Jordan Matthews High School in Siler City was napping.

“I was really not going to pick it up,” Herrera said.

But she answered the phone to find a representative from UNC’s Admissions Department on the line. Herrera’s name had been taken off the wait list. She had been accepted to UNC. Herrera was told she could take time to think about attending the school since she got word relatively late, after she applied and was accepted to other schools.

“I said, ‘No, there’s no thinking about UNC,’” Herrera said. She began her freshman year at Carolina in August.