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JUNE 8, 2018, KEIZERTIMES, PAGE A5 GRAD, continued from Page A1 BULLET: Mayor contacts county commissioner complete rejection right then and there. I was just in shock and I was so excited. And I remember just telling a few people about this because I didn’t want to get anybody’s hopes up. I didn’t want to get my own hopes up.” Llanos had to wait until April 1 for Stanford’s fi nal de- cision. Meanwhile, she was work- ing on her application to USC, which wasn’t going as well as she had hoped. “I remember turning the application in and just crying,” Llanos said. “One, because of what I said I was very passion- ate about, but two, because it wasn’t my best work. USC was always my No. 1 school. I’m going to do anything pos- sible to get into USC. That’s my school. That’s where I’m going. I’m going to work so hard on this application and I didn’t. I kept putting it off. For some reason my heart just wasn’t into working on this application and I have no idea why.” The end of March, during McNary’s spring break, Llanos got a big acceptance package in the mail from USC. A week later came the letter from Stan- ford. “I’ve always tried to pres- ent myself as this confi dent person but there’s always a lot of doubts that go through my mind and I compare myself to other people,” Llanos said. “Getting accepted into Stan- ford made me realize there’s a lot of myself that I don’t real- ize. There’s a lot of aspects and qualities that I oversee and I’m (Continued from Page A1) Several residents then turned out at a Keizer City Council meeting to implore the city to take action. “What I’m most concerned about is the fact that someone is going to get killed if something doesn’t get done. When the powers-that-be tell us no one would admit to using the gun—if some- one had been killed, would that be how this was handled?” asked Marge Smith, a resident of the area. Sgt. Andrew Copeland met with the owner of Northwest Rock, Lance Davis, and signs were put up to remind users that residences were located across the river. Mayor Cathy Clark addressed the issue again at the city council meeting Monday, June 4. “I called (Polk County) Commissioner (Craig) Pope and let him know what happened and I wanted to look in to what they can do on that side of the river. They need to have some conversations with the property owner.” Residents of West Keizer have complained about the noise from the shooting range for sever- al years. On some weekends, shots are heard from morning until night. LISTEN TO THE KEIZERTIMES PODCAST AVAILABLE ON TUNES AND SOUNDCLOUD always focusing on the negative. sented minorities, people that It inspired me to look at my life are low-income, people that in a different perspective and didn’t think they were going be a little bit more positive and to have this chance, people use more kind words to myself that weren’t supported by their families or families who have specifi cally.” To make a decision, Llanos no idea what college is like,” had to see the two schools for Llanos said. “Where am I going herself. In one weekend, April to have these people that I can 26-28, she spent two days at relate to? Stanford understands Stanford and then one at USC. that very, very well. “That was one Stanford of the things that emailed a travel I didn’t come in grant to pay for thinking about her fl ight to San or looking for, Francisco. Willa- but it found me mette Academy, and that made a which Llanos has huge impact on participated in me. I didn’t real- for the last fi ve ize how much I years, helped pay needed this until for the fl ight to Stanford present- Los Angeles. ed it to me and I “When we loved that about were approach- ing it, I was so — Crystal Llanos Stanford and that they realize that giddy,” Llanos that’s so impor- said of Stanford. “I was jumping up and down. tant that that’s the fi rst thing It was like seeing a celebrity be- they showed us when we got cause everybody talks about it there.” While the campus was “gor- and I’d only seen videos. It was geous,” Llanos didn’t get the crazy. It was real.” The other students surprised same feeling at USC. “The people I was meet- her. “The people were so friend- ing and the vibes on campus, ly,” Llanos said. “They were so they weren’t me,” she said. “It humble. They were nerdy but was actually very sad for me also so normal and for some and disappointing just because reason I thought they were go- I had this vision in my mind ing to be crazy geniuses that that USC was the school for only talked about math and me. Even fl ying down there I science and school. I was ner- thought I’m probably going to vous but once I met them, these like USC more.” Llanos plans to major in people are super smart but biomedical engineering but is they’re normal like me.” But what won Llanos over keeping her options open. After college, she wants to was that Stanford, with its eth- nic-themed community center open a non-profi t healthcare organization to provide medi- and dorms, felt like home. “The scary thing about go- cal technology to minorities ing to any college, especially and people of low income. “I want to go down to Mex- one that’s very selective, is where am I going to fi nd the ico because that’s where my people like me? 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