L.A. mayor's son, Antonio Villaraigosa, Jr., headed to PU

<p>according to this article about his parents' high-profile split:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-mayor12jun12,0,4342633.story?coll=la-home-center%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-mayor12jun12,0,4342633.story?coll=la-home-center&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>i know him from facebook. </p>

<p>I don't understand why the article had to be posted up. There's only one line about him coming to Princeton- a lot of us already knew that. </p>

<p>I would have respected his privacy and not done that (even if it is on the web) - what is this discussion supposed to be about? gossip?</p>

<p>all four articles on google news mentioning the fact of junior's attendance unfortunately concern the separation. posting the former fact without any citation at all would be even more gossipy, though, i think. here, in any event, are four other los angelinos headed to princeton, including featured student stephanie morales and her inspiring story:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_6166301%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_6166301&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Stephanie Morales' brain devoured high-school calculus like a hungry caterpillar digests springtime leaves. </p>

<p>It was the same when she took advanced and college-level calculus. </p>

<p>The 18-year-old's love of math, of numbers, integrals, derivatives and terms that can cause an average person to feel as if ants are crawling through the brain, opened doors she never expected - to Stanford and Columbia, Georgetown and UC Berkeley. </p>

<p>The soon-to-be graduate of San Fernando High School has accepted Princeton University's invitation to major in economics. </p>

<p>"My mom inspired me," Morales said. "She earned her GED. She has a passion for learning and doesn't let obstacles get in her way." </p>

<p>As thousands of high school seniors prepare to graduate this month, many will step into a future much different from their past. </p>

<p>For Morales, that means leaving her beloved San Fernando High, where as a magnet student, she conquered every subject well enough to earn more than a 4.0 grade-point average to become the school's salutatorian. </p>

<p>It means leaving a mother and father who earn their living collecting recyclable cardboard to keep the family fed and safe. It means leaving brothers and sisters who look up to her as the first in the family not only to earn a high-school diploma, but also to win enough scholarship money to help her earn a doctorate. </p>

<p>And it means that anything is possible, even for a girl who has known homelessness. </p>

<p>"There was a time when we didn't have anywhere to live," she said. "We lived in a motor home for three years. We had no electricity, no showers. When all that was happening, I became more involved in school."</p>

<p>Princeton is underrepresented among the students in this article, even adjusted for size of incoming class, compared to the other elites:
Stanford 10 (no surprise), Harvard 8, Yale 7, Princeton 4.</p>