From Arvin to Yale — student turns hard work into an Ivy League dream.

From Arvin to Yale — student turns hard work into an Ivy League dream.

Yaquelin Acosta, a firstgeneration senior at Arvin High School, made history for her family by earning admission to Yale University the first in her family to be accepted to college.Her bedroom wall is a testament to that achievement: National Honor Society and honorroll certificates and firstplace ribbons line the room. Beating steep odds, Acosta secured a spot at the Ivy League school.Yale has always been one of my dream schools. I always want…