Just a decade after completing his undergraduate degree at Caltech, Conan Gu invests in the next generation of students.
As he attended high school in Shanghai City, Conan Gu (BS '13) aspired to study science and engineering in the United States. But as he sent off his college applications amid the global financial crisis in 2008, he began to wonder if he would ever realize that dream. "I was coming from a single-parent family in China, and U.S. tuition is no joke," Gu recalls.
Then he received what he calls "heavenly news": He had been accepted to Caltech and awarded the Milton and Rosalind Chang Scholarship. He wouldn't have to worry about paying tuition for the entirety of his undergraduate career. "It was a peerless offer," Gu says.
Gu credits the financial support with helping him succeed academically. "That scholarship enabled me to focus on studying and performing," he says.
