Renato Alexander Gaitán García

Peruvian mathematics prodigy from Villa El Salvador. IMO silver medalist 2024 and gold medalist 2025 for Peru; 2024 national champion (Aceros Arequipa) with 200+ national and 9 international medals. Admitted to MIT (Class of 2030) with a full scholarship announced 14 March 2026, to study pure mathematics.

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• Admitted to MIT with a full scholarship (announced 14 March 2026) after applying in August 2025; will study pure mathematics. The IMO gold is the headline credential and the national Aceros Arequipa prize funded the English/test prep that made the US application possible.Mar 18, 2026
• Won IMO 2025 gold for Peru (rank 27, 35 points: P1-P5 full, P6 zero) and IMO 2024 silver (rank 59, 28 points) - a rare back-to-back jump from silver to gold in one year, which is the achievement that made national news in Peru.Jul 2025
• Won first place at the Concurso Nacional de Matemáticas Aceros Arequipa 2024, earning S/50,000, which he used to finance English preparation for international university applications - a self-funded path rather than an elite-school pipeline.Mar 31, 2026
• LinkedIn headline reads 'Math + CS @MIT', indicating his intended focus spans pure mathematics and computer science, not mathematics alone.Jun 2026
• Trained at Peru's Instituto de Matemáticas y Ciencias Afines (IMCA), the country's main olympiad training pipeline, and accumulated 200+ national and 9 international medals.Mar 16, 2026
• Family context: eldest of three siblings; mother Asunción García (from Puno) sells clothing, father Renzo Gaitán sells spare parts; the family guided him after another MIT-bound Peruvian family shared the application playbook - a recurring informal MIT-admit network among Peruvian students.Mar 16, 2026
• Interviewed on Peruvian TV (Willax and PBo) about his trajectory from Villa El Salvador to MIT, making him a public-facing education story in Peru.Mar 19, 2026
• Studied at Colegio Prolog in Lima, which publicized his IMO medals and MIT admission heavily - the school is a consistent source of his press coverage and interviews.Jul 2025