Here’s just some of what’s on 16-year-old Ali Goedecke’s mind: Latin class; crew team and field hockey; the state of public libraries in her hometown, Washington, D.C.; and the middle-class quagmire.
The middle-class quagmire?
Yes. The middle-class quagmire. With two and a half years to go until she takes a seat in the first massive lecture hall of her college career, Goedecke knows that her family probably won’t qualify for a ton of financial aid. But the sophomore overachiever — her daily schedule would exhaust an ultramarathoner — is putting her passions in play to make sure her parents don’t get stomped by college costs.
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