Which detail supports the idea that Sonia did well in law school, but still faced people who did not think she could
succeed because of her background?
The head of a big law firm in Washington D.C. said that firms should not hire students who had
benefited from Affirmative Action.
While she was at Yale, Sonia met Jose Cabranes, a lawyer who had once worked for the governor of
Puerto Rico.
Classes at Yale were extremely difficult; Sonia rarely spoke during class and had to study all the time in
order to prove herself.
O Nothing that Sonia wrote was published in the Yale Law Journal until her last year in law school.
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