“I guess I’ve gotten my drive from a lot of rejection letters,” he said. “I have to prove them wrong.” Jamie Lopez, Hispanic Heritage Foundation’s National Youth Awardee in Healthcare & Science
While Stanford has already accepted him, he’s waiting for responses from Harvard, Princeton, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology before making his final college decision.
Wherever he pursues his undergraduate education, he plans to study financial engineering. He is already thinking about graduate school, with a tentative aim towards pursuing a joint M.D. and M.B.A. program.