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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
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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.
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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? Underrepre- roots are,” Llanos said.
“I’ve always
tried to present
myself as this
confi dent per-
son but there’s
always a lot of
doubts.”
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