Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Puerto Vallarta and Mexico News

Son of immigrants from Jalisco gets accepted to all Ivy League schools

It would have been a success story if Fullerton High School senior Fernando Rojas, the son of Mexican immigrants whose schooling stopped in the eighth grade, was accepted to college. But the 17-year-old achieved a surprising clean sweep — he was accepted to every Ivy League school.

"I didn't think I would get into any," Rojas told The Orange County Register on Saturday. "When I got all eight, it was a blessing and a curse because I had to choose. I was excited and scared and everything at the same time."

The first call came from Yale University . . .

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