User:Gabriel Dias Amaral

Gabriel Dias-Amaral (born July 31, 1998) is a Brazilian Medical Student.

Biography
Dias-Amaral was born in Belo Horizonte, Brazil, on 31 July 1998, to Álvaro José Amaral Júnior (Ferros, 22 May 1969), a manager, and Bernadeth Aparecida Dias Teixeira (Belo Horizonte, 28 February 1965), a cleaner. The third of four of his mother's sons and his father's firstborn, Gabriel grew up in Belo Horizonte's São Bernardo neighbourhood, in the city's North Region, with his mother, two older maternal half-brothers Leandro (b. 1982) and Marcelo (b. 1986) and brother Matheus (b. 2000). His parents divorced in 2000. His father remarried the following year. He briefly moved to Brasilia with his mother and younger brother in 2005, returning to his hometown only three months later. His paternal half-brother Arthur was born in May 2005. In August 2008 his only half-sister (and last sibling) Alana was born.

As a child, Dias-Amaral was interested in exploring the world and learning from a very young age, collecting books and writing stories, being able to read from age 4. At the age of 6 he was enrolled in Lídia Angélica Municipal School (port: Escola Municipal Lídia Angélica), ranked second amongst the capital's public schools, where he studied from years 1 through 6. On year 7 he was transfered to Maria Luíza State School (port: Escola Estadual Maria Luíza Miranda Bastos), a middle and secondary public state-level school in Belo Horizonte, where he completed middle school, in 2013, and high school, in 2016.

During the first edition of the 2017 Unified Selection System - SISU (port: Sistema de Seleção Unificada), he was selected for a position as a undergraduate student at the prestigious Federal University of Minas Gerais' School of Dentistry, ranking second in the process. Later that same year, he was offered a R$673,200.00 (US$202,900.00 in 2017 values) full medical schollarship at the Presidente Tancredo de Almeida Neves University Center's Faculty of Medicine, relocating to the city of São João Del Rei, Minas Gerais, where he's been living since. He is expected to finish Medical School in July 2023.