Dylan Chidick was determined to succeed despite obstacles.
Dylan Chidick, left, and his mother Khadine Phillip, sit at a table covered in Dylan's acceptance letters. By Kayla Epstein Kayla Epstein Embedded audience editor on the National desk Email Bio Follow March 16 at 3:39 PM For weeks on end, Dylan Chidick would wait by his mailbox for the postal worker.
But to reach this point, he’d already overcome an obstacle that not even his friends at school knew about until his story made the news this week. The shelter also disrupted his studies, with curfews butting with his habit of doing homework late into the night. In August of 2017, they were placed in permanent housing in Jersey City with help from a local organization called WomenRising, but the experience had shaken him.
Chidick was born in Trinidad and moved to the United States with his mother, Khadine Phillip, in 2008. He has two 11-year-old twin brothers, who suffer from heart conditions. “I know I have my brothers have a role model to look up to, and I’m really happy that I could be that person,” he said.Chidick ecstatically revealed to CBS News on Thursday that he’d just gotten another life changing call: Someone had offered to pay for his tuition and boarding, wherever he chose to go.
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