Gatton Academy student receives Gates Scholarship covering full attendance
BOWLING GREEN, Ky. – A Gatton Academy student has received a scholarship that only funds 300 students per year.
Gatton Academy of Mathematics and Science in Kentucky senior Allen Lin from Union, Ky. has received the competitive Gates Scholarship, a program funding the full cost of attendance not already covered by other financial aid. The scholarship recipient graduated in 2022 from Larry A. Ryle High School.
The Gates Scholarship first launched in 2017. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation continues helping minority students from low-income backgrounds realize their maximum potential.
The scholarship program is based on evidence that by eliminating the financial barriers to college, a scholarship such as this can enable high-potential, low-income minority students grow in coursework, graduate college and continue to be leaders throughout their lives.
Lin stated, “It is such an honor to be recognized as a Gates scholar. I am so grateful to everyone who supported me. I aspire to become a professional mathematician who helps make math enthralling and fun to learn for others, thereby changing the stigma about math. I know that I will be in an excellent math program at MIT. The scholarship will provide me with the resource to pursue what I love and to be successful.”
As a tutor at Gatton, Lin said, “I became a peer tutor during my first semester at Gatton because I wanted to make math fun and easier to learn for my classmates. I tutor individually and lead weekly review sessions in Calculus I and Calculus II because most Gatton students are enrolled in those classes. Moreover, I also tutor classmates on more advanced topics, like discrete mathematics, linear algebra and differential equations.”
Lin currently serves as the co-president of Chess Club and is a member of Math Club. He has carried out number theory research with Dr. Dominic Lanphier of the WKU Mathematics Department since his first semester and also attended the Research Science Institute during summer 2021. There, he worked with MIT faculty on an original math research project about circular symmetrization.
