By Padma Nagappan
Published April 20, 2011 on
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A free college readiness program in City Heights is helping inner-city high school students become the first in their families to go to college. The program has enabled many teenagers to overcome troubled backgrounds, gang involvement and drug habits and turn their lives around.
Judd Aguiar is being raised by a single mother who works long hours to put food on the table. The 17 year old Mission Bay High school senior has been accepted into eight universities.
But just a few years ago, things were very different.