{"id":533,"date":"2012-05-11T15:18:17","date_gmt":"2012-05-11T22:18:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/?p=533"},"modified":"2012-05-11T15:18:17","modified_gmt":"2012-05-11T22:18:17","slug":"twin-sisters-from-oakland-heading-to-yale-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2012\/05\/11\/twin-sisters-from-oakland-heading-to-yale-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Twin Sisters from Oakland Heading to Yale \u2014 Together"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure  class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"max-width: 216px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm8.staticflickr.com\/7214\/7156270582_9422d065d9_n.jpg\" alt=\"Staff Photojournalist\" width=\"216\" height=\"320\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo of Kim and Jack (left to right) by Jane Tyska\/Bay Area News Grou<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Education Blog<br \/>\nMay 8, 2012<br \/>\nWritten By Katy Murphy<\/p>\n<p>I recently had the chance to sit down with Kim and Jack Mejia-Cuellar, twin sisters from Media Academy (Fremont campus) in East Oakland who have\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mercurynews.com\/breaking-news\/ci_20558787\/twin-sisters-defied-social-pressures-now-theyre-bound\" target=\"_blank\">both been awarded full scholarships to Yale University<\/a>. It was inspiring to hear their story \u2014 and how, as one of their teachers put it, they shaped their education into something rigorous and meaningful.<\/p>\n<p>I was struck by something Kim said about feeling like outsiders, at times, for working so hard:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cNo one said it outright, but our behavior was strange,\u201d Kim said. \u201cBy setting goals for ourselves while other people were setting limits, we were always sort of the odd ones out. We felt pressured, but we didn\u2019t let the pressure get to us.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Both said that they doubted they\u2019d be where they are if they didn\u2019t have the other as a support system. What about the other bright minds who will show up to school tomorrow, but without an identical twin or best friend with the same drive, discipline and self-assurance? What can their families, friends and the school system do (or avoid doing) to help them set goals instead of limits?<\/p>\n<p>Read more about these <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ibabuzz.com\/education\/2012\/05\/07\/twin-sisters-from-oakland-heading-to-yale-together\/\" target=\"_blank\">incredible twins<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Education Blog May 8, 2012 Written By Katy Murphy I recently had the chance to sit down with Kim and Jack Mejia-Cuellar, twin sisters from Media Academy (Fremont campus) in East Oakland who have\u00a0both been awarded full scholarships to Yale University. It was inspiring to hear their story \u2014 and how, as one of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/2012\/05\/11\/twin-sisters-from-oakland-heading-to-yale-together\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Twin Sisters from Oakland Heading to Yale \u2014 Together<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3209,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,4,6],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"series":[],"affiliates":[],"programs":[],"collections":[],"interests":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-kqed_research_local_ag","category-kqed_research_ag","category-kqed_youthmedia_ag"],"acf":{"template_type":"standard","featured_image_type":"standard","is_audio_post":false},"template_type":null,"featured_image_type":null,"is_audio_post":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"affiliates","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/affiliates?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"programs","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/programs?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"collections","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/collections?post=533"},{"taxonomy":"interests","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ww2.kqed.org\/americangraduate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/interests?post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}