Recently, Dario Guerrero, a junior at Harvard University, revealed that he was given a full scholarship to Harvard University after he told them he was an undocumented immigrant.

In an Op-Ed for The Washington Post bluntly titled "I told Harvard I was an undocumented immigrant. They gave me a full scholarship," Guerrero wrote that he did not find out about his undocumented status until he was 16 years old, when the community college where he was taking extra courses told him his Social Security number did not match his name.

"Why, I asked my parents, had my Social Security number been rejected? They told me they had given me my little brother's number. It was a simple explanation, taking no more than 10 seconds in Spanish: 'Son, we overstayed our visa when you were three. You don't have a Social Security number,'" he wrote.

Guerrero soon learned that his friend Oscar was also undocumented. The two also learned of the obstacles their statuses presented to being accepted into college. Guerrero was flown to MIT, where he immediately saw a happy life studying engineering, but was told on the last day of the visiting program that the school could not legally accept him.

Eventually, Guerrero went to Harvard and spoke with an officer from the admissions and financial aid office who said that if he was accepted, the prestigious university would "'meet your full financial need without regard to your legal status.' Not only would they follow the too-good-to-be-true need-blind policy I'd read about, but they didn't care about immigration status," Guerrero wrote.

After applying to every Ivy League School, Guerrero received a call from Massachusetts telling him that the Harvard Admissions Committee had voted to accept him with a full scholarship. He now majors in visual and environmental studies.

Colin Manning, a Harvard spokesperson, told Fox News Latino that several other undocumented immigrants have been accepted into the university in the past few years.

"Harvard seeks and attracts talented students of all background from across this country and around the world, regardless of nationality," he wrote in a statement.

Guerrero's friend Oscar was accepted into Cornell University.

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