Geovanna Veloz, a senior at Mission High, plans to attend a four-year college in the fall. (Photo by Carolyn Jones/EdSource)

Geovanna Veloz, a senior at Mission High School in San Francisco, has always known she wants to be a nurse. What she didn’t know was how to get there.

Her parents couldn’t help much. Immigrants from Mexico, they speak limited English, work long hours and don’t have much experience with education. Neither went to high school at all, in fact.

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