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When Life Gives You Lemons Graduate With A College Degree

Grace Linden is a senior nursing student at Indiana Wesleyan University who will graduate in April 2019. She was adopted from China at 11 months old by a white family who already had four biological daughters. Linden faced challenges as an international adoptee from a young age, such as feeling different from her white family and struggling with her identity. She worked hard in high school to earn scholarships and financial aid to be able to afford college. Although her first choice school fell through due to costs, Linden has succeeded at IWU with academic scholarships, need-based aid, and multiple jobs. Upon graduation, she will have a nursing position at a top hospital, defying statistics against her as an adopted and Asian-

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When Life Gives You Lemons Graduate With A College Degree

Grace Linden is a senior nursing student at Indiana Wesleyan University who will graduate in April 2019. She was adopted from China at 11 months old by a white family who already had four biological daughters. Linden faced challenges as an international adoptee from a young age, such as feeling different from her white family and struggling with her identity. She worked hard in high school to earn scholarships and financial aid to be able to afford college. Although her first choice school fell through due to costs, Linden has succeeded at IWU with academic scholarships, need-based aid, and multiple jobs. Upon graduation, she will have a nursing position at a top hospital, defying statistics against her as an adopted and Asian-

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IWU Newswriting

Beating the Statistics: Non-traditional


College Graduates

When life gives you lemons … graduate


with a college degree.

By: Dezaray Barr

Family 2.0

Adopted students are twice as likely to have had their parents contacted in the last
year due to schoolwork problems. These students are three times as likely to have
had their parents contacted due to classroom behavior problems, and they are also
three times more likely to have been suspended or expelled from school, compared
to their peers who are not adopted, according to the Institute of Family Studies.

Grace Linden is one of these students who, despite the statistics against her, is on
track to graduate college as an international adoptee now living in America. She is
currently a senior nursing student at Indiana Wesleyan University (IWU) and will
graduate in April of 2019.

She was adopted from China when she was around 11-months-old.

Linden’s parents already had four daughters when they adopted her. There is about
10 years between her and the next oldest child, who is her parents biological child.

She said that growing up was kind of weird, because her parents seemed to have had
two different families.

“We joke that there was the original [family], and then there was family 2.0,” Linden
said with a laugh. “Because after me, my parents adopted my younger sister and my
two younger brothers. So the youngest four of us are all adopted from China and the
oldest four are my parents birth children.”

Despite being adopted, Linden never felt any less

When Grace Linden was adopted from


like she was her parents’ daughter, but there
China, her parents flew to China to pick were other things in her own life that looked dif-
her up and bring her home. This is their ferent since she was adopted from out of the
first picture together.
country.

“I mean … my family is white,” Linden said with a matter-of-fact smirk. “When you
grow up in Indiana, in the Midwest, it’s predominantly white. That was never a fac-
tor for me until I got older, but that was something that set me apart, because I was
adopted.”

Linden said when her family would go out in public to the grocery store, the library
or even church, people would not associate she with her mother, or even her family
as a whole, because of the difference in their race.
“It was a very rare thing in the late ‘90s for a white person to have a child that was of
a different race [then they were],” Linden said.

Because her parents had eight children, Linden’s financial situation was different
than most families in the Midwest.

“When it came time to apply for college, I knew that finances were going to be an is-
sue,” Linden said. “I never wanted for anything growing up, but my parents decided
in their marriage that they weren’t going to lie to their children about the finances.
That way, the children could be involved in the decision-making processes, too.”

This openness started very early on in the Linden family.

When Linden’s parents felt a calling from the Lord to adopt, they sat the entire fami-
ly down and had a discussion about it. Linden’s parents explained to her older sib-
lings what they had been called to do, but they also asked for their opinions. As mem-
bers of the family, the daughters’ opinions were valuable to her parents.

“[My parents] were honest with [my siblings] and explained to them that if they
adopted a child, it was going to make [the finances] a little bit difficult,” Linden said.
“We wouldn’t be able to go out to eat, or we might have to start cutting back.”

Because her parents were honest with she and her other siblings throughout their
entire lives, Linden knew that college would be a financial burden she, herself,
would have to take on.

“When it came time for college, I was very worried about how I was going to pay for
it,” she admitted. “I had gotten a job pretty early on in high school, and I worked
close to 40 hours a week, because I knew that I was expected to help contribute to my
higher education.”

Financial aid was always at the top of her considerations when applying for college.

Linden explained that her parents were “those” parents on the campus tours who
were willing to ask the hard questions about how much money everything cost and
how much financial aid the school provided.

When she was looking at colleges, Linden applied to a few state schools, but a majori-
ty of the schools that she applied to were small Christian colleges, because that’s
what her family preferred. All of her older siblings had attended Christian colleges in
the Midwest.

Linden’s first choice school, a different college in Indiana, was almost where she end-
ed up attending. She had been accepted, had paid her deposit and had scheduled her
classes.

“Basically, on May 1, my parents


were honest with me and told that I Sporting her Indiana Wesleyan University apparel, a lot has
could not afford it, so I could not go changed in four years for Grace. Although she originally
to that school,” Linden said. planned on attending a different university, she’s grown to
love IWU.

Linden withdrew her application and her deposit, and she enrolled at IWU instead.

“One of the reasons that I chose IWU [as my second choice school] was because they
gave me the most money,” Linden said with a laugh.

Despite the change in plans, and despite not being able to attend the school of her
choice, Linden said being accepted into college felt amazing.

“My parents had always said that grades were important … and I had internalized
my grades,” Linden said. “I knew that I wanted [college] to happen in my life. Specifi-
cally, because I ended up with nursing, it was an occupation that required me to get a
college education. So, when I was accepted to college, I was really happy.”

Compared to her peers, Linden’s college experience did look a little bit different, be-
cause she resented having to change her choice of school at the mercy of her finan-
cial situation.

“I resented my college choice at first, for a really long time,” Linden said. “I felt like I
was trapped here … like I was forced to come to IWU.”

She admitted that her feelings were very internalized.

“I felt kind of robbed, because when I got here, everyone was excited to begin their
college journey,” she said. “College acceptance and choosing where you want to be …
at that time, it felt like it was the biggest decisions that everyone my age was making.
I felt angry, because I felt like I hadn’t been able to make that choice on my own, for
myself.”

After filling out the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA), Linden learned
that she was eligible for some government aid.

At IWU, she also received academic scholarships as a result of her grades throughout
high school, and she applied for some need-based scholarships, too.

“That’s how I afforded college, along with working pretty close to full-time,” she said.
“I held three different jobs my freshman year of college, and I have held on-campus
jobs every year since then. On my breaks, I also work full-time back in my home-
town.”

Because Linden is going into the field of nursing, she’s required to do a lot of back-
ground checks in order to do nursing clinicals, to volunteer, to work in hospitals and
to apply for nursing jobs.

“Some of [the background checks] ask, ‘Have you ever gone under a different
name?’” Linden said with a sigh. “And I have to fill that part of the application out,
because technically, yes. And technically, I held a different citizenship, too.”

The first time she had to fill that question out, Linden said she was freaking out.

“I was convinced that I was going to be arrested, for like fraud,” Linden said with a
laugh. “I had to go and find all my old files, like my adoption certificate, my old pass-
port and my original citizenship.”

Linden said that fortunately she has not had to take out any personal or private
loans, but she has had to take out loans from the government in order to afford and
attend college.

“I won’t graduate completely debt-free, but my amount of debt is considerably lower


than some of my peers,” Linden said. “For that, I really am fortunate.”

After graduation, Linden has received a job offer in Cleveland, Ohio to work in the
surgery department as a nurse at the Cleveland Clinic, a top ranked hospital in the
nation.
Linden’s roommate, peer and friend, Rachael Van Huis, said Linden has studied and
worked hard throughout all eight semesters of college.

“Studying alongside of Grace has been eye opening,” Van Huis said. “To know that
she is adopted and would statistically not be graduating college right now, yet she is
graduating on-time with a BSN and has a job at a well-known hospital … I am so
proud of her. She is earning her degree, as well as working a part-time job on cam-
pus. Any time we study together, she is always teaching me something new and con-
necting dots for me to better understand the material.”

Linden said that graduating, defying the statistics as an international adoptee and as
an Asian-American, is a really good feeling.

“I’m proud of myself for … overcoming, I guess,” she said, “and to prove myself as an
Asian American.”

She admitted that she’s not a very emotional person, but thinking about graduation
sparks some emotions within her.

“Thinking about graduation, I almost start crying,” Linden said. “I remember really
struggling with my value and my self-worth when I was younger.”

She explained that those born into a family can’t help but feel like they deserve it,
but for those who are adopted, they may struggle with their identity and sense of be-
longing in a way that most people don’t.

“When I made the announcement [about my post grad job], both of my parents
shared it on Facebook, and both of them wrote about how proud they are of me,” she
said, holding back tears. “I started crying when I read that, because I … they’re such
wonderful people, and I love them so much.”

She paused for a moment, holding back the tears that were forming in her eyes as
she recalled the memory.

“As graduation approaches, and the fact that


I’m going to graduate with a nursing degree,
and I already have a job post grad … knowing
that both of my parents are really proud of
me, it makes me feel a sense of accomplish-
ment that I was able to prove to other people
that I was able to accomplish something in my
life,” she said. “I have a sense of purpose in my
life now.”

Her younger sister, Faith Linden, who is also


adopted, said that Grace has defied the odds
by working hard and rigorously applying her-
self to succeed.

“I’m really proud of Grace, especially because


I’m a sophomore nursing student,” Faith said.
“I look up to her as an inspiration. I’ve been
amazed at how smart she is and how she’s ap-
Grace’s parents are incredibly proud of her plied it to a hard major in college. I think that
success in college and her future career as a
nurse. They can’t wait to travel with her to it’s awesome that she got a job at a prestigious
Cleveland to help her settle into her new hospital and as an OR nurse nonetheless.”
home and new job.

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I did it!
An orphan is a child under the age of 18 who has lost one or both parents to any
cause of death. By this definition, there are nearly 140 million orphans globally, ac-
cording to UNICEF.

Most individuals traditionally understand an orphan as an individual who has lost


both parents. This is the category that Logan Fulton falls into.

Fulton is one of just two percent of orphans who graduate from college.

She was born to two parents that


were not married.

“[My parents] were both drug ad-


dicts,” Fulton said. “I didn’t person-
ally see the heart of their drugs, but I
did get the backlash of it.”

After Fulton was born, her mom


tried to stay away from drugs. Her
father was in and out of their house,
and, therefore, Fulton’s life, because
Growing up, Logan experienced a different kind of life-
of his drug abuse. style than most by living with her mother and father.

When Fulton was just 10 years old, living in Baltimore, Maryland, her mother died
from Creutzfeldt–Jakob disease (CJD). CJD is a rare, fatal, degenerative brain disorder.

“[My mom] got sick in August of 2006 and died on Oct. 4 of that same year,” Fulton
said.

There is a small chance that Fulton will inherit the CJD gene.

“Roughly five to ten percent of cases are inherited. I’m not allowed to donate blood
because of my mom having [CJD],” Fulton said. “There are times where I wonder if
I’ll inherit it, especially since I think I’m similar to my mom personality wise and
think similarly to the way she did.”

This is what Fulton considers the beginning of her hardships, the starting line of a
very long, hard journey.
“My mom, in a way, had a sugar daddy,” Fulton said with a laugh. “He provided us
with a pretty luxurious lifestyle. I didn’t really feel poverty until after my mom died.”

After her mom’s passing, Fulton moved to Indiana to live with her aunt.

“When we moved to Indiana, I was thrown into a Christian atmosphere,” Fulton said.

The traditional home she lived in at that time was the opposite of what she had expe-
rienced as a young child. It was all new to her, almost like a culture shock.

“My lifestyle, where I knew of drugs and sex … [my aunt’s family] didn’t know any of
it,” Fulton said. “I had to alter what I said and how I behaved in order to match their
lifestyle.”

Fulton was in a different kind of home, without her mom or her dogs, and she went
from being an only child, to living in a home with five other children.

For the remaining days of her fifth grade year, Fulton attended a Christian school,
which was also new to her.

“I was kind of behind [in school] anyway, just because I hadn’t done much schooling
during the time that mom was sick,” Fulton explained when talking about her transi-
tion to Indiana.

She admitted that it did stunt some of her growth, which also contributed to her cul-
ture shock at the time.

Due to the cost of attendance at this Christian school, Fulton began the next school
year at a local public school, where she said she didn’t make any friends.

“In eighth grade, I finally started to kind of heal and start to actually feel the feelings
and mourn my mom’s death,” Fulton said. “But then I found my dog dead in the
yard.”

While it may sound silly, Fulton admit-


ted that because she hadn’t been able to
make friends in Indiana since moving
here after her mom died, her dogs were
her only friends. So losing one of the
two dogs was incredibly difficult for her.

Just about a week after finding her dog,


Fulton’s aunt had to tell her that her fa-
ther had also died.

“I kind of expected to not see my dad


again, because my aunt paid him to
leave [me alone] when we moved to In-
diana,” Fulton said. “But I remember go-
ing into my room and crying, thinking, ‘I
don’t have any parents now.’”

As she recalled this memory, tears


formed in her eyes.

Logan’s two dogs were her best friends. They were Fulton was officially an orphan.
her constant companions throughout most of her
childhood.
She said that the mix of emotions and
expectations caused her to shut down, because she wasn’t good at experiencing the
hard feelings that were being thrown her way in big amounts.

As she began her freshman year of high school, Fulton’s second dog neared death,
and each day she worried about being told that he had died too.

Eventually, he also passed away.

Because of these experiences, she failed Spanish her freshman year. She was also
bullied and didn’t have any friends at her high school.

Fulton remembers feeling resentment against her peers often, due to the hardships
she had faced that her peers knew nothing about nor had ever experienced.

“I remember them all saying, ‘Wow, my parents suck,’ and I would just think, ‘OK …
at least you have parents,’” Fulton said.

During her sophomore year of high school, Fulton said she finally began coming out
of her shell.

However, she remembers hearing her aunt tell her that she was also going to die.
Just like her mom, her aunt was very sick, too.

During Fulton’s junior year of high school, she transferred back to the Christian
school she had attended as a fifth grader.

“This was the first time that people loved me in a special way … and included me,”
Fulton said. “They kind of knew about my situation, but they just kept including me
and showing me the love of God.”

This was when Fulton said that her faith


began to develop and when she began to
learn more about God.

“Once I found God, the healing process


started again,” Fulton said.

This healing process changed Fulton’s


life in ways that are unimaginable.
The Indiana Wesleyan University student center is
Without it, she’s not sure where she
now one of Logan’s favorite places. She loves the
community filled space where everyone gathers to- would be today.
gether!

At her Christian high school, it was nor-


mal for students to select one of two local Christian colleges. She choose Indiana Wes-
leyan University (IWU), knowing that she would be the first college graduate in her
family.

“IWU was an easy choice,” Fulton said. “But I didn’t realize how much financially it
cost at the time.”

Because she was never legally considered a ward of the state, filling the Free Applica-
tion for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) was difficult for Fulton, because she did lose
both of her parents before the age of 13. But because she was legally an independent
student, she did recieve enough financial aid to attend IWU.

Then, at 19, as a sophomore in college, Fulton’s aunt died.


Because of the stress this brought to her, Fulton was in and out of IWU as a regis-
tered student. Financially, she had to pay for both her tuition, as well as everything
that her aunt had been providing for her, like basic necessities and groceries.

She also lost a scholarship because of taking time off to grieve her aunt’s passing.

Despite taking breaks during her college experience and changing her major nine
times, Fulton said that there were other difficulties being a college student threw at
her.

“A lot of people here at IWU are very dependent on their parents,” she said. “They
would have their parents help them move in, and I would look at them and think,
‘It’s just me …’”

Her peers were able to have the traditional college experience, going out and having
fun, but Fulton said that her experience was different as an undergraduate student.

“I was so focused on bills and when and what to eat the next time … if I’ll be able to
eat the next meal,” she said.

Rachel Harding, a roommate, friend and peer of Logan’s, has known her for four
years.

“We became friends during my freshman year of college, because we had a class to-
gether,” Harding said. “Logan was really quiet, and I tried to talk to her every day I
saw her. She was very closed off and reserved, so I initially thought she didn’t like
me.”

Harding said that while it took a long period of time for Fulton to warm up to her,
she knew that she needed to earn Fulton’s trust.

“After awhile, she began initiating our conversations, and we became close friends,”
Harding said.

The girls started getting lunch together and hanging out outside of class, developing
a deep friendship.

“I knew that Logan lived with her aunt, but I had never asked what her home situa-
tion was like. One day, she just opened up about her history and her parents’ stories,”
Harding said with a smile. “I was so moved and honored that she would trust me
enough to share that information. After that day, Logan and I were tight, and we
would have check-in conversations.”

When Fulton’s aunt passed away, Harding said that she felt honored to attend the fu-
neral with Fulton as her friend.

“Logan has taught me so much about strength,” Harding said. “Her drive to continue
onward and upward in life is very inspiring to me. All together, she is such an im-
pressive person. Her smile lights up a room. Her words have so much power, be-
cause her story is so incredible and unique. Logan’s spirit is so sweet, and she is such
a giving person. I can’t wait to see how she uses her testimony to minister to others.”

In December of 2018, Fulton became one


of the two percent of orphans to graduate
with a college degree. She finished early,
by choice, with a general studies degree.

“That’s also a reason why I graduated with


a general studies degree in December …
because I still owe over $6,000 that I
would have had to pay if I wanted to con-
tinue with the degree I wanted,” she said.

Fulton said that on the day she graduated


Graduation day was an incredible day in Logan’s
she had no family present at IWU or the
life that she’ll remember forever. Her work with
graduation ceremony. IWU’s TV station was a huge part of her time as a
student.

After the ceremony, she was driving to an-


other town to visit her cousins, and a song that reminded her of her mother came on
the radio.

“My mom was what really pushed me to continue [my education],” Fulton said. “She,
herself, was so close to graduating when she died, and that’s what pushed me to
graduate, even after she had passed away.”

When that song, “Time” by Chantal Kreviazuk, came on the radio while she was dri-
ving, Fulton said that she cried, thinking about how she did it … how she managed to
defy the statistics and graduate college.

“[Graduating] had been my goal for so long,” she said. “And I did it for my mom.”

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From Nothing to Grad School

There are roughly 400,000 children in the American foster care system. Of that num-
ber, approximately 100,000 are waiting to be adopted, according to the Adoption and
Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System.

Only 55 percent of former foster youth will attend college, and of that percentage,
only eight percent of former foster youth will graduate with a college degree, accord-
ing to Promise2Kids.

If only eight percent of children who were at one point in foster care graduate from
college, then you can count Brianna (Bri) Westover as one of that small percent.

As a child, growing up in Allentown,

Bri has always been a spunky kid. Despite her childhood


Pennsylvania, Westover was taken
home life, she has a positive outlook and personality. away from her parents at the age of
four.

“It was not a good home environment,” she said. “There was a lot of neglect and dif-
ferent sorts of abuse that happened within my first home.”

After being removed from her biological parents’ home, Westover and her younger
sister went to live with her grandmother for a while … but then her grandma got
sick.

“So we went into the foster system,” Westover said matter-of-factly. “That’s where we
met our first foster family, and we stayed with them for a couple of months.”

Westover, with a smile, explained that this first foster family was awesome. They
were great Christians, and she said that they were an incredible blessing within her
life.

“They were actually the ones who led me to Christ,” Westover said, continuing to
smile as she recalled the memories and time spent with this family.

However, her grandmother got better! So Westover and her younger sister moved
back in with her grandma.

And then, all of the legalities happened.

“Rights [to my sister and I] were signed over, so we went back to the same foster
family we had been with,” Westover said. “That doesn’t usually happen, but they had
the intentions of adopting both my sister and I.”

After living with this family for a couple of years, the state government decided that
it was best for Westover and her sister to be separated.

“Healing wise, it was necessary for us to separate, because together we weren’t super
great,” Westover said with a laugh. “So, they decided to adopt my sister …”

At that point, Westover had to begin the process all over again of finding another
family.

“Through a giant God event, my parents ended up finding out about me from a
teacher at my school,” Westover said, referring to her adopted parents. “My mom
was a teacher at a sister school, and this lady brought up a little girl who was up for
adoption.”

To this day, Westover’s parents or the other teacher still don’t know how the conver-
sation regarding her status as a foster child was brought up.

At that point, Westover’s parents started the process. It was only April, but by May,
she was moved into their home.

“And on May 22, 2005, I was adopted!” she


said. “So it was a really fast process, but
such a God thing!”

Westover attended a Christian school


from Kindergarten until she graduated
high school, and then she decided to at-
tend Indiana Wesleyan University (IWU).

When it came to applying for college and


filling out financial aid forms, Westover’s
parents decided that it was best for them
as a family to hire a company to complete
her paperwork, including the Free Appli-
cation for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA),
for her.
Coming to IWU, the transition wasn’t su-
per easy for Westover.

“I think that some people don’t realize


that there are people here who are adopt-
ed,” Westover said, when discussing IWU.

She recalls a moment in which her friend


group at college decided to go around in a
circle and share their favorite childhood
memories. She had to admit to them that
she didn’t really have any great childhood
memories.

“They were like, ‘Oh! I’m so sorry!’” West-


over said. “And I had to be like, “No … it’s
fine.’ I appreciate people who are willing
to ask some questions … to ask me about
my story, because it brings a lot of glory to
God. It’s really cool for others to to be able
to see that part of me, because it’s helped
to make me who I am today.”
Bri’s adopted parents found out about her through
a conversation with another teacher. To this day,
At the end of April of 2019, Westover will
no one remembers how the conversation began – it
graduate with a bachelor’s degree in ath- really was an act of God!

letic training.

“It feels great,” Westover said about


graduating, despite the statistics con-
cerning her upbringing. “I don’t have
any connections to my biological family,
besides my sister, but it would be really
neat to see what they would think about
me graduating.”

Westover does have the option to reach


out to her biological parents, but she’s
decided that it wouldn’t be in her best
interest to reach out to them.

“But it would be interesting to tell them


that I’ve made it this far,” she said.

Westover and her biological sister are


very different, and they have different
struggles based upon their childhood.
Westover said that despite their up-
bringing, her sister has chosen to live
her life in a specific way that she
doesn’t agree with.

After graduating with her undergradu-


ate degree, Westover will be attending
grad school in Nashville at Belmont Uni-
versity to get her master’s degree in
sports administration.

“It’s really cool to be able to go against


the odds,” Westover said. “Don’t let
your past define what you can do.
Because Bri is graduating college as a previous foster You’re way more than that.”
student, she is defying the statistics in ways that
most people don’t.

She said that the biggest, most monumental


moment of her life was when she accepted
Christ into her life.

“That moment changed me in so many


ways,” she said. “I had a lot of fundamental
things that therapists and doctors said was
wrong, but through the process of faith and
healing, all of those things went away. You During her time at IWU, Bri has developed in
ways she never expected! She’s excited to con-
can’t see those things in my life anymore.”
tinue her education at the graduate level.

Faye Westover, Brianna’s adopted mother, said that she is such a sweet blessing to
her and to everyone around her.

“Brianna was rescued from a terrible birth home … full of abuse and neglect,” Faye
said. “Because of her love for Jesus, she was willing to allow Him to heal her and that
went a long way toward the positive growth in her life and character.”

Her mother said that through Bri, God worked a miracle right in front of their eyes.

“We are extremely happy that Brianna chose to attend IWU and will be graduating
and then heading to Belmont University,” Bri’s adopted father said. “We are so proud
of Brianna for allowing God to help her overcome the life she was dealt with as a
very young child and for following God’s will for her to pursue her master’s.”

God can reach into your life and do amazing things if you let Him, Bri said, and that
is what has allowed her to defy the statistics, graduating college despite growing up
in the foster system.

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ing the statistics and demystifying the odds.

Read the stories of three of those young women who are proving the statistics wrong
and conquering their dreams, even when reality says that they shouldn’t:

link with preview of headshots of all three girls

Twitter: The percentage of orphans, foster children and adoptees that graduate with
a four-year college degree is slim-to-none. But there are students who are beating the
statistics and demystifying the odds.

link
Instagram: The percentage of #orphans, #foster children and #adoptees that #gradu-
ate with a four-year #college #degree is slim-to-none. But there are students who are
beating the statistics and demystifying the odds.

Read three of those stories of young women like @LoganFulton, @GraceLinden, and
@BriWestover who are proving the statistics wrong and are conquering their
dreams, even when reality says that they shouldn’t at the #linkinbio.

*with headshots of all three girls*

Audio

Facebook: “I’m Logan, and I’m proud to be one of the two percent of orphans that
graduate with a college degree.” Check out this week’s podcast episode, and discover
how Logan defied the statistics against her!

link

Twitter: “I’m Logan, and I’m proud to be one of the two percent of orphans that
graduate with a college degree.” Check out this week’s podcast episode, and discover
how Logan defied the statistics against her!

link

Instagram: “I’m Logan, and I’m proud to be one of the two percent of orphans that
graduate with a college degree.” Click on the link in our bio, and listen to how Logan
defied the statistics put against her as an orphan.

*with Logan’s headshot and photo of her on graduation day

Grace’s Video

Facebook: “I’m Grace Linden, and I’m proud to defy the statistic.” Click on the link,
and watch a video of how Grace defied the statistics set against her:

link.

Twitter: “I’m Grace Linden, and I’m proud to defy the statistic.” Click on the link, and
watch a video of how Grace defied the statistics set against her:

link.

Instagram: “I’m Grace Linden, and I’m proud to defy the statistic.” Click on the
#linkinbio, and watch a video of how Grace defied the statistics set against her:

short snippet of video

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