# Students Share Their Stories

**Source**: https://admit.stanford.edu/financial-aid/students-share-their-stories
**Parent**: https://admit.stanford.edu/next-steps/sunetid

**Jemima** grew up as one of six kids, with a mom — her “rock and shining star” — who worked the night shift as a nurse. She thought of Stanford as her super-reach school, until she got in and realized it would cost her almost nothing to attend.

**Tracie** always knew she wanted to be able to provide two things for her kids: braces and a good education. But as her oldest daughter approached the end of high school, she began to worry that she wouldn’t be able to afford the cost of college.

**Cameron** comes from Neah Bay, Washington, where his mom is an intake clerk, his dad is a fisherman, and “everybody knows everybody.” He was motivated by family and community to get a good college education — but knew his parents wouldn’t be able to contribute to covering the cost.

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