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Tatum Tricarico didn’t know she’d need to recruit a professor to help her get the accommodations she needed as a functionally blind student.Sammie Zenoz didn’t know she could get scholarships that would make it possible for her to attend her dream school.Yvonne Chamberlain Marquez thought her housing was guaranteed, only to find out too late that having a daughter disqualified her.These students eventually figured out what they needed to succeed in higher education, but not because they learned about it in high school, or because it was written down in any official handbook.