Oo learned about Berry at a college fair.

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"Six months ago, we didn't have this kind of activity as a local college, " says Andy Berry, vice-principal of Bridgwater College.

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Thompson knew that they did not have the SAT scores or the money to make it to a college like Berry, but she was moved by their determination to make it in America, a land that Oo said was as different from their homelands as Earth is from sky.

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