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Best of the Bronx: High school student Jocely Lopez accepted to Columbia University

Hard work has paid off for one Bronx teen, who will be heading off to an Ivy League school in August. Jocely Lopez, a student at the Bronx School for Law, Government and Justice, will attend Columbia

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Jun 24, 2014, 8:38 PM

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