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Nov 27, 2004Colleges Scramble To Recruit Latinos By CHRIS ECHEGARAYcechegaray@tampatrib.com TAMPA - Elida Molina spent hours poring over the Internet her senior year, searching for information on college financial aid and scholarships, her frustrations mounting. She had little support at home. Her mother, a migrant worker with seven children, dropped out after middle school in Mexico and didn't put a premium on education. ``I was stressing over the college applications,'' said Molina, 19. ``I was not good with the standardized tests, the SATs and ACTs, and then you have my mother not really understanding how hard it was to...