Meaningful meal
There aren’t many people who can point to a single day when everything in their life changed, but Jesse Sanchez ’14 can. “The day was March 31 — three days after my 18th birthday,” he said. “I come home to an email from the Harvard College Admissions Office. ‘Dear Mr. Sanchez’ … I couldn’t believe it. At that moment, I realized I was accepted to Harvard University.” Being accepted, however, was only the first hurdle Sanchez faced in coming to Harvard. Even a single semester’s tuition was far beyond his family’s income. Without some sort of support, it was unlikely this Californian would ever set foot in Cambridge. For Sanchez and thousands of other Harvard students, that support arrived in the form of Harvard’s Financial Aid Initiative. “As I reflect on the last four years of my life, I ask myself how all of this was possible,” Sanchez said recently. “I realize that this...