Bridgeton High grad off to HARVARD (news item)

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<p>"That's the trek Bridgeton High's 2005 valedictorian, Michelle Gaffney, will take this September, quite possibly making her the county's first public high school graduate to enroll at the esteemed Ivy League institution.</p>

<p>More than two months after learning of her acceptance to Harvard, Gaffney says it still hasn't completely sunk in that she's going to attend one of the best schools in the country.</p>

<p>"Sometimes I'm still in shock. I ask myself, 'Am I really going to Harvard? Are you serious?' And then it's like, 'Yeah, I am,' and I'm real scared ... going from a little place like Bridgeton up to there (to Boston)," the Bridgeton Villas resident said Thursday......"</p>

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<p>WHAT?! Hahahahahaha No, no one EVER goes to Harvard from a public school in this country. . . . oh my god how dumb can a newspaper be</p>

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<p>COUNTY, NOT country. That "R" makes a big difference.</p>

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<p>ooooooh yes it most certainly does. . . .</p>

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<p>our public school has three people heading to Harvard in this one year! It's ranked one of the top 1% of High Schools(public) in the country</p>

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<p>I'm not sure if I'm the first in my county, but I know I'm the only person from my county who will be going to Yale this year.</p>

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<p>I'm the first person from my school to go in about twenty years. I'm not sure why its been so long. Harvard seems to stick to certain public high schools. When I went to the Prefrosh Weekend there were about forty kids from one public school in Boston.</p>

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<p>That's Boston Latin. I don't think that really counts as a public school. It technically is, but it's like the country's first school and best public.</p>