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Long Island college freshmen find ways to adjust

A few weeks into her first semester of college, Carly Lynch began to falter.

She missed her friends 300 miles away on Long Island, struggled in calculus class and was no longer a campus leader, as she had been at Lynbrook High School. Valedictorian of Lynbrook's class of 2007, she found herself surrounded by scores of valedictorians at Middlebury College in Vermont.

"Carly was good...

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