California farmer's daughter enrolled in top US universities and received $ 350 thousand scholarships

This fall, graduate of Everett Alvarez High School in Salinas (California) Angela Gomez will begin her studies at Stanford University.

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She is one of two graduates in Monterey County to receive a $350 scholarship from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation this year, writes USA Today.

The scholarship covers all costs associated with college tuition, including tuition, room and board, travel to and from campus, and other education expenses.

“This means I have more freedom to study what I want and follow my own interests, which are more related to social activism rather than trying to pay off student loans,” Gomez said.

According to Stanford, the typical student’s school-related expenses will be $ 71 587 in the 2018-2019 school year. Gomez plans to study at a university for 5 years to get a master's degree. If the calculations are correct, then the gates scholarship will cover all of its expenses during these five years.

Gomez's father is a farmer, and she will be the first in her family to graduate from high school, let alone attend college.

Gomez chose Stanford from many popular US colleges that invited her not to study, among them Yale and Columbia Universities, Harvard, Princeton, Berkeley, and many others.

At Stanford, she plans to study mathematics and computer science.

“I want to work to make math more accessible to low-income students because it's something I'm passionate about,” she said, adding that while she was in school she didn't have access to many math learning opportunities and she believes he can change this situation for other students from low-income families.

During her school years, she was involved in several community programs, played tennis and worked part-time.

School teachers Gomez say that she helped many students by providing information about scholarships, as well as opportunities to prepare for college entrance tests.

Gomez is not sure about her future after Stanford, but she said she would like to work with the STEM non-profit educational program and eventually, perhaps, pursue a career in education.

“Math and science have become such an important part of society. This is very important for the economy, as well as fair distribution of resources, which leads to socio-economic mobility,” the girl noted.

Gomez is the only recipient of the Gates scholarship in Salinas and one of two in Monterey County.

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