Liz Rubin

Last year, after College sophomore Sara Heinze's close family friend, four-year-old Alexa, passed away from complications after being treated for neuroblastoma, she began to think about what she could do to help. As president of her high-school athletic association, Heinze helped organize a "change drive," that raised about $2,000 for a three-day breast-cancer walk by collecting small change from students.

A daunting winter notwithstanding, Jonathan Goodman, a freshman in the College, left the beaches in San Diego last week for Penn's campus in West Philadelphia. Like Goodman, more California high-school seniProxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 s than ever before are hoping to make the move