“My biggest thing was finding people I can relate to and finding a community I feel comfortable with.” Things started to change when Renée attended her first meeting of First-Generation Low Income Partnership (FLIP), where she remembers feeling instantly welcomed. “I almost felt inferior to the people I was meeting,” Renée says. And I feel like the people here are much more open-minded and more willing to view the world through a different lens,” she says, “I wanted to be able to experience something completely different, which is what brought me to New York.” But her first year here ended up proving difficult in some ways. “I really resonated with the liberal arts aspect of it. “She always told me that I could do more than what people think.” Drawn to New York City, Renée began researching programs at NYU. I think I was like a pretty average student, but my counselor was someone who really believed in me,” Renée remembers.
“I wasn't someone who was taking all the AP classes.
But thanks to the encouragement of her high school counselor, Renée was persuaded to consider other options. In fact, the southern California native had only planned on applying to universities within her home state. New York University - NYU wasn’t on Renée Reed’s original list of potential colleges.
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