She looked like a good bet to beat the odds, but her first try at college, nearly 20 years ago, came up short. From a tough, low-income neighborhood of Utica, N.Y., Catherine McNamara earned a scholarship to Northeastern University in Boston, but soon…

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For one student, a long path to college degree