CHOOSING ONLY THE BEST

For a fourteen-year old guy, he is already craving for his college life. This guy’s view in High School being the best stage of life but he deems that it doesn’t end in the Secondary level but it continues until college. There are many factors why he is so excited, one is he will get his freedom meaning, he may do whatever he want to, meet whoever he want to meet, and go wherever he want to go; second, he will be living on his own (condo) as a sign independency and there are other factors. One of his priorities as of now, (as a preparation for his college) is to choose the University where he will fit best.

Celebrating it’s quadricentennial on the year wherein the guy will bid his good-bye to his first alma mater and say his hello to his new-second-home, The Pontifical and Royal University of Santo Tomas, the Catholic University of the Philippines is the guy’s desire. Being the oldest University in the country (it is older than the Harvard University), it already made it’s name shine the most. And it was also tested by time, that no matter what happens they still do their best. The España-based university has come along it’s way by producing graduates who are competent in the field of their choice(s) and so they are awarded as “The Best Performing Private University”. It's history and the reputation the school brings to its graduate. And the guy doesn’t want to miss the University’s 400 years of academic excellence.

One of the only four Universities (in the Philippines) that was able to be part of the Top 500 ranking by The Times Higher Education Supplement that gives them honor and mirror their academic excellence, replicating their motto: “Honor and Excellence”, the University of the Philippines. The Diliman-based University is proclaimed as the National University due to it’s performance in academics. It is said to be that it is one of Universities which is difficult to enter because only students who is intellectually-capable and has passion in studying deserves to be called Iskolars ng Bayan. Same as with UST, the guy is also looking forward to it’s academic excellence that is why they are able to bring into being the country’s bests.

The home where blue stood up, the Ateneo de Manila University. Identical with UST and UP, the boy is also gullible that the Jesuit-led University will also give their best to hone their student in their fields, that’s why they are one the four Universities, together with UP, UST and DLSU, who were able to part the Top 500 ranking. The University has the most difficult entrance exam that a freshman will take (if I am not mistaking), an initial observation that the University chooses students who are academically competent and does not accept students who are academically poor and impotent.

Yellow, Maroon and Blue is the guy’s top three universities where he wants to take his first-three-entrance-exams, in that order. The guy doesn’t consider other universities not superior in their own but he just want the three-best universities that he thinks he will fit.

oswaldfabisablay
11oct2008