By Kyla Calvert
Out of the 4,000 San Diego State University freshmen who have just wrapped up their first week of classes, a very small group can say what Jessica Hernandez and Christian Castro do about their classmates.
“It was pretty nice having a familiar face nearby,” Hernandez said of her first few days on campus.
“They still come to me and say ‘Hi, how’re you?” They know me, so it feels pretty nice, so yeah, I know a big number of students,” Castro said.
Hernandez and Castro are two of 44 students from San Diego’s Hoover High School that are part of this year’s freshman class. Hoover is less than three miles away in City Heights. But many of its students are first or second-generation immigrants for whom the journey to college is about a lot more than physical distance.
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