Trump plans J.D. Vance endorsement in crowded Ohio Senate race, sources say

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3. JD Vance benefitted from a diversity initiative as did I

Coming from KY/OH/WV area strong candidates are given breaks getting into Ivy League schools in the hopes of diversifying their student population.

I went to high school in Mississippi. I am not sure that I would have entered the Engineering program at Purdue directly. I had several peers my freshman year who were not admitted in Engineering but were trying to make it in. Most failed.

Like JD Vance I benefitted from a parent (in his case a grandparent) who wanted to see me succeed in college. My family is from just across the border from JD Vance's family (Huntington WV and the smaller communities in WV and OH surrounding it). Like Vance I was the first to go to college in my immediate family (I had an uncle once removed who graduated before me from college).