Yale took you and UCI didn’t?’ ” McGee said after Zuyi shared her news. “So for those of you who are like, ‘Wait. She is leaning toward Yale, which is offering a no-loan financial aid package that will give her an Ivy League education for less than $2,700 annually. She was admitted to UC Berkeley, UCLA, USC, Yale and Dartmouth, among others. She developed leadership skills in Chinatown activism that helped her successfully apply for a $100,000 federal small business loan for her parents during the pandemic. Zuyi Guan - whose parents emigrated from China and worked in low-wage restaurant jobs until starting their own eatery - achieved a 4.4 GPA. This year’s admission season featured some head-scratching decisions. Their parents are mostly immigrants from Latin America and Asia, many without college degrees who work as cooks and waitresses, parking valets and factory workers, caretakers and security guards. Their college aspirations unfolded last fall when McGee boldly pushed them to claim a well-earned seat at universities they loved. Their roots are humble, but their grade-point averages are strong. Like tens of thousands of other high school seniors, they pushed through two years of pandemic isolation to stay focused on their college dreams and survived a brutally competitive year, marked by record-shattering applications to the University of California. The 237 seniors in Downtown Magnets’ class of 2022 are about to take a leap that will reshape their lives, their families - and California, which will rely on this new generation of diverse students to move the state forward.
But you know what? You’re all going to college somewhere.” “You went for something that you weren’t sure would even work out and in some cases it did not. “This is a celebration of the fact that you took a risk,” McGee told the four dozen in attendance. Eric Xie-McCarthy and Nathan Ortega were denied by Cornell and Stanford but said they were considering offers from UC Berkeley or UCLA.
Miguel Balbuena, whose single mother is a cashier at a fast-food restaurant, was waitlisted by four campuses but plans to attend Dartmouth. Nick Saballos, the son of a Nicaraguan immigrant who works as a minimum-wage parking valet, was rejected by Stanford and Harvard, among others, but announced he is deciding between UC Berkeley and Bucknell University.
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