By Richard Bammer

A son of Latino immigrants, Alejandro Sanchez, a 2015 Dixon High graduate and scholarship recipient, more or less defied the odds once as a teenager and has done it again as a new college graduate in his early 20s.

In June, Sanchez, the first DHS student to earn the David Robben Memorial Scholarship, received his bachelor’s degree from the University of California, Los Angeles, graduating summa cum laude, Latin for “with the greatest honor.”

Sanchez, a first-generation college graduate, plans to attend medical school in 2020 and has applied to about 20 institutions for admission — Harvard, Yale, and Stanford, among them — Samantha Fordyce, a development associate with the Solano Community Foundation, said in a press release.

Source: Son of immigrants, 2015 DHS grad graduates from UCLA – The Reporter