Biology student breaks highest grade record in post-war UP

The summa cum laude driving the current year's group of University of the Philippines graduates in Diliman will have the most noteworthy general weighted normal (GWA) in the historical backdrop of UP after World War II.

BS Biology understudy Tiffany Grace Uy will graduate with a GWA of 1.004. She will lead the 29 understudies who will graduate summa cum laude at the leader grounds of the nation's national college.

Uy's 1.004 bested the evaluation got by BS Mathematics graduate John Gabriel Pelias in 2011. Pelias got the then most noteworthy post-war review in UP with a GWA of 1.016.

In 1927, BS Business Administration graduate Exequiel Sevilla graduated with a GWA of 1.00, the most astounding review an UP understudy can get.

Uy got an evaluation of 1.00 in all subjects aside from Art Studies where she got an evaluation of 1.25.

UP awards the honor of summa cum laude to understudies who get a GWA of 1.20 or higher.

UP Diliman will likewise witness the walk of 248 magna cum laude and 920 cum laude graduates.

The current year's beginning activity will check the first occasion when that an UP graduation was held in June because of the scholarly logbook shift.