Hi there! I'm Vicente, and this is my story.

On the Chilean coast, where the hills run down to the sea. Everything below starts here.

A project I co-founded with Imix: every weekend we invited people to come and clean the forest with us. It was the first time I saw that a small idea, repeated, moves people.

The United States, and the first time the world turned out to be bigger than the map I had of it. The week I came back I started English lessons... a decision most of this page depends on.

We (Imix and I) co-founded a garden for the neighbourhood: somewhere to put our hands while everything else was shut, and a reason for the block to see each other again.

I joined in 2021 and led the team in 2022, my final year of school. Debating taught me what I still use most: build the argument, then say it so that someone else can follow it.

A 6.8 / 7.0 GPA, and four years on the honour roll at Seminario San Rafael.

Honour roll in each of my three years there, on the Beca Excelencia Académica, and a teaching assistant for 7+ courses along the way — econometrics, macro, accounting, finance, statistics. Teaching turned out to be the fastest way to find out what I actually understood.

An exchange at Universität Mannheim, funded by a €4,000 Baden-Württemberg scholarship. Studying in a third language, in a country where I knew nobody, was the hardest and the best thing I had done.

Selected among ~90 students out of more than 150,000 applicants, with the program fully funded. Leadership, positive psychology, and American values and immigration — in Philadelphia, nine years after that first trip.