{"id":6081,"date":"2024-05-25T16:42:10","date_gmt":"2024-05-25T08:42:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gqq.gfl.temporary.site\/website_b2c438e3\/filipino-achieves-summa-cum-laude-at-yale-with-perfect-gpa\/"},"modified":"2024-06-14T16:56:30","modified_gmt":"2024-06-14T08:56:30","slug":"filipino-achieves-summa-cum-laude-at-yale-with-perfect-gpa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/?p=6081","title":{"rendered":"Filipino Student Earns Summa Cum Laude And Perfect GPA At Yale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Filipino student achieved summa cum laude honors and a perfect 4.0 GPA upon graduating from the prestigious Yale University.<\/p>\n<p>Dion Stephan Ong, a 21-year-old student, was one of the 4,000 graduates at Yale University&#8217;s 323rd commencement ceremony, marking the institution&#8217;s founding in 1701.<\/p>\n<p>Ong completed a dual degree program, earning both a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Computer Science. He graduated with Distinction in the Major and received the Yale Science &#038; Engineering Association Senior of Distinction award. Additionally, he was inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa honor society.<\/p>\n<p>He previously attended Ateneo de Manila University, where he completed his elementary and secondary education by 2020, graduating as the valedictorian of his senior high school class.<\/p>\n<p>Beginning his studies at Yale during the onset of the pandemic, Ong&#8217;s first semester courses were conducted online.<\/p>\n<p>He is set to begin his career as a core engineer at Hudson River Trading in New York City.<\/p>\n<h6><credit>H\/T: Manila Bulletin<\/credit><\/h6>\n<h6><credit>Photo Credit: Bryde Ong via Manila Bulletin<\/credit><\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Filipino student Dion Stephan Ong graduated summa cum laude from Yale with a perfect 4.0 GPA.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6082,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6081","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-great-filipino-story"],"pageone_source":{"pageone_source":"PAGEONE","author_name":"PAGEONE Online Network"},"_pageone_source":"PAGEONE","zyndk8_nxtgen_metadata":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6081"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6081\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6081"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6081"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dynamic-silver-sheep.82-197-71-20.cpanel.site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6081"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}