Overview
- Perú21 and La República identify the student as 18-year-old Sebastián Lozada Gálvez from Villa El Salvador who received a full scholarship to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- He won gold at the 2025 International Mathematical Olympiad in Australia after silver in 2024 in the U.K. and bronze in 2023 in Japan, and he has more than 15 international medals.
- He trained at Colegio Saco Oliveros and credits the Beca Cometa Camp program from Intercorp with key guidance through essays and admissions preparation.
- He teaches with Ecoinstructores, which offers free tutoring to low-income students, co-founded a math olympiad academy, and says he plans to return to Peru to train young talent.
- One outlet, Correo, named a different student for the same achievement, creating a public discrepancy in identification that other reports do not share, while six other Peruvians also secured MIT scholarships.