Wednesday, June 13, 2012

Deserted by parents, she went from homeless to Harvard

Made it: At 18-years-old, Dawn Loggins says she has finally made it after accepted into Harvard University despite raised in a home of drug use and later abandoned by family
Made it: At 18-years-old, Dawn Loggins says she has finally made it after accepted into Harvard University despite raised in a home of drug use and later abandoned by family.photo
. By Scott Stump.  TODAY.com contributor:  Dawn Loggins endured her family being evicted from their home many times. When the electric bill didn’t get paid, she studied by candlelight; when her parents lost their jobs, she subsisted on noodles.
But that still didn’t prepare the senior at Burns High School in Lawndale, N.C., for the shock of coming home from a prestigious academic program last summer to discover her family had abandoned her. It took her months to learn that her parents and two younger sisters had gone to Tennessee, because she could not reach them; their phone service had been disconnected.
One summer later, Loggins is preparing for her freshman year at Harvard University after a remarkable rise from hardscrabble circumstances to acceptance to the class of 2016 in one of the most prestigious schools in the world... Read here...
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1 comment:

  1. AnonymousJune 22, 2012 at 12:25 AM

    There are some flaws in this story. For one thing, the two younger sisters have always lived with their paternal grandparents, they have not been raised by Dawn's mother and step-father.

    There has been a lot of misinformation, mis-quotes, etc. in these articles and some of the television shows.

    The most accurate article I have found is the one done by CNN. The best interviews are the ones on CBS This Morning and the Today Show.

    I can probably clear up most of the misinformation since I raissed her and her brother for 13 years.

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