Saul Sanchez, Northridge High School
For his first two years of high school, Saul Sanchez didn’t take his coursework very seriously.
“My first two years of high school was a struggle. I was lazy, and I wasn’t the best student,” The Northridge high school senior said. “It is a lot more challenging to get my GPA where I want it to be because of those first two years. But I am getting a lot of support.”
Sanchez found the Student Recovery Program and getting involved in AVID- Advancement Via Individual Determination- taught him how important it is to create positive relationships, both with teachers and with students “AVID helps me so much because we do these peer led study groups. We put problems on the board, and we, as students work through it,” he said.
“People come up to me with questions for math and I take them step by step on how to do it and they always thank me for it.”
He said now he is better at putting his own priorities first. “It all just hut me at once,” Sanchez said. “I am not doing it for anybody else. It’s for me. It’s for my future. If I am not putting the effort into it, no one else will.” A Greeley native with two older sisters who attended college, Sanchez now hopes to become and electrical engineer, first attending the Aims Community College then hopefully the University of Wyoming.