Last fall, Jose Flores applied to UW-Madison and the University of Dallas, thinking he might want to become a pediatrician. But something nagged at the high school senior.
“I didn’t feel really content,” said Flores, 18, who lives with his parents and two brothers on Madison’s East Side. “I have an ambitious personality. I want to do a lot, and I feel very strongly I could work hard enough to become a doctor. But I thought maybe I need to be doing more for God.”