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Article: Homeless student, 18, who studied on the subway gets scholarship to Cornell University. (Camara Barrett, who immigrated from Jamaica to New York, NY, is admitted to Cornell as a pre-med student)(Brief Article)
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- Jet
- Article date:
- June 10, 1996
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For 18-year-old Camara Barrett, his ticket to ride the subway landed him a scholarship to Cornell University.
The homeless New York City youth said he decided that education would be his ticket out of poverty. So after classes at Thomas Jefferson High School in Brooklyn, he rode the No. 3 train for four days and four nights to study for the SAT exam.
He recently earned free passage as a pre-med student at Cornell University in New York.
"I made up my mind to do it. I knew personally that that was my ticket," Barrett said in the New York Post.
With an SAT score of 1,140 and ...