Rose moved to the United States from Jamaica at the age of 14. She has lived in New York City since and has flourished both academically and socially. Here, she comments on how her family pushed her to do well in school:
I did pretty well. Actually did better here than I did in Jamaica. Uhm, and like I said it was kind of harder in Jamaica, but also since I didn’t live with my parents in my first part of high school I felt I was kind of more like laid back and didn’t put that much effort into it. But when I moved here with my parents, they were very involved in my education and they were always checking, you know, if I did my homework and if I was studying so I would get straight A’s in high school.”
