CNN.com - Student beats odds, goes to college - Sep. 26, 2003: "He was born to a Puerto Rican mother and a Dominican father, and his enrollment exemplifies a College Board finding that, among Hispanics and blacks who graduated last spring from high school and took the SAT exam, more than 50 percent aspired to be the first in their family to attend college. (By comparison, only 31 percent of the white test-takers would be the first to attend college.) "