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Noel Medrano applied to UCLA three times with the goal to be a high school band director. (Brandon Choe/Daily Bruin senior staff)

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While his peers go out to get lunch, Noel Medrano goes to the practice room every break between classes to improve his playing technique. This persistence to perfect his music has made Medrano a meticulous band director, a job he takes on during the summer at his old high school, John H.

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Persistence proves instrumental to sixth-year Bruin’s success

By Julia Raven

Sept. 28, 2014 12:00 a.m.