USAP Brazil Profiles
We are extremely proud of their great achievements and successes. Below are the profiles of some of our Brazilian students from the Class of 2014.
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Paulo Costa
Yale University '14
Paulo Costa was born and raised in the beautiful city of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Since middle school, Paulo has been very interested in education. As the years went by, he became a popular mathematics, physics, and chemistry tutor at his high school, the Military School of Rio de Janeiro (CMRJ). With opportunities provided by his teachers, Paulo was able to excel in his studies and got more than 15 medals in academic competitions in Brazil. On top of that, he is also a recipient of a Motion of Praise and Applause from the House of Representatives of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Since 2010, Paulo has been studying at Yale University, in New Haven, CT. There, he has had many opportunities to expand his vision about education. Majoring in Economics, Paulo has been awarded 5 academic fellowships to further his understanding of economic issues across the globe. More recently, in the summer of 2012, Paulo was the leader of two projects on financial education in Brazil.
As a soon-to-be economist, Paulo does not know what the future holds, but he is pretty sure that he will be soon applying to graduate school to fulfill his dream of teaching at the university level.