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Shay Taylor had long been a standout student, finishing in the top 10 percent of her class at Wilbur Cross High School in New Haven, Connecticut. But without a roadmap, or a family history of navigating higher education, she went straight to work after graduation in 2010.
“I just didn’t know what to do,” Taylor, 32, tells TODAY.com in an interview. “My mom was a single mom, and we didn’t know anything about financial aid or applications. We were kind of lost.”
A guidance counselor had suggested Taylor consider community college and “figure it out,” she recalls. Instead, needing a paycheck, at 18, she took a job as a janitor at Yale New Haven Hospital.
She Worked as a Hospital Janitor at Yale for a Decade. Now She's Returning as a Doctor
