Jannet Barrera graduated from Texas A&M University in 2016, four years after she completed Dallas’ Sunset High School as her senior class president and with a Gates Millennium Scholarship in hand. That scholarship, one of the most prestigious of all, gave her a full ride to the school of her choice.
She selected A&M and finished there, but the journey was not without its pitfalls. The most immediate one came during her first semester when she was hit with a strong sense of not belonging. The first in her immigrant family to attend college, she described her initial alienation in a series of interviews we did for this Dallas Morning News piece, which followed an earlier one when she graduated from high school.
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