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CNN Saturday Morning News

Homeless Youth Gets Perfect SAT Score

Aired April 07, 2001 - 08:55   ET

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BRIAN NELSON, CNN ANCHOR: A teenager who had no home and no school has managed somehow to score a perfect 1600 on his SATs. Reporter Ethan Harp of our affiliate KCRA has that story now.

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TREVOR LOFLIN: I was really surprised and really happy. That was really a cool thing.

ETHAN HARP, KCRA REPORTER (voice-over): Seventeen-year-old Trevor Loflin should feel good. Hard work and studying did him amazingly well on his SATs, a perfect 800 score in verbal, a perfect 800 in math. Amazing, because of where he has spent the last few years studying. Trevor and his family have been homeless, sleeping at times in this Suburban.

LOFLIN: We went back and forth. We'd, sometimes we'd be homeless, sometimes we would have like, have an apartment, something like this. And then basically we would just live wherever we could find.

HARP: Although Trevor has always been a bright kid, you might think he would be more worried about street smarts. But Trevor stuck to the books, and when possible, computers.

LOFLIN: I'm a lot more motivated now and more capable and that's, it really has, the challenge of it has strengthened me.

HARP (on camera): Loflin not only got that perfect score without benefit of a home, he got it without a school. He is home schooled.

(voice-over): He says his mom has been a great teacher.

CINDY HAMILTON, TREVOR'S MOTHER: As far as character, it was good. But academically, I know, that's the part that surprises me is how well he did despite what we've been through.

HARP: The family credits their Baptist faith for seeing them through the tough times. They just moved into their first real house a few weeks ago.

LOFLIN: With god's help you can overcome anything.

HARP: His next challenge, finding a college and money to pay for it. Clearly, he has faced tougher tests.

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NELSON: And that was reporter Ethan Harp of our California affiliate KCRA.

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