Here's how one man fought financial hardships, housing insecurity and debilitating illness to graduate from Harvard Law, and then give back.
By high school, his grades had slipped, and he graduated with barely a 2.0 GPA and a low SAT score, hindering his college application process.
The Bladensburg, Maryland, sanitation company provided Staton with the stepping stone he needed to jump-start his life. Staton said it was his colleagues at Bates Trucking and Trash Removal who helped him reapply for college, and he eventually got accepted to Bowie State University.Rehan Station is a college student who went from being rejected by every school he applied for to being accepted into Harvard Law school.
In 2019, Staton was overcome with an unknown sickness that left him bedridden, dropping from 150 pounds to 117 pounds. Due to his inability to work during that time, and his family's continued financial insecurity, his home was nearly foreclosed on. To prevent foreclosure, his father, who had recently suffered a stroke, was forced to return to work."If I can get to a place that has the resources, it takes out the middleman," Staton recalled thinking.
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