Thursday, April 21, 2005

Whiz from Cavite

When you have the talent and brains, opportunity pours. Paul Leopando graduated on top of his class at Manila IS, got high marks in SAT, and perfected 5 placement exams given by a US testing center. To boot, he is offered scholarships at Yale, Harvard, Princeton, and -ehem- UP. He is reported to be seriously considering Harvard (see the Philstar.com story).
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2 comments:

F said...

and i thought he got perfect SAT scores :) there might be some exaggerations by the newswriter here, do US universities actually give that much money? hehehe.

12:36 PM
K said...

the tone of the news is indeed proud. well, the SAT scores are not bad. :)

11:06 PM

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