BAGUIO CITY – Some eight hundred eleven students, considered cream of the crop among the nation’s student population, graduated from the Cordillera campus of the Philippine Science High School (PSHS-CAR) since the establishment of the prestigious secondary education institution in the region in 2013.
PSHS-CAR Campus Director Edward Albaracin said that 99 percent of those who graduated from the institution pursued science and technology-related courses while the remaining one percent entered the Philippine Military Academy (PMA).
He added that the school’s graduates contributed in increasing the number of researchers, scientists and engineers who were able to place the country in the global map of scientists and in improving the current state of science and technology in the country.
The PSHS-CAR official claimed that the institution is accepting the upper 90 percent of those who pass the entrance examination considering the limited spaces in the Cordillera campus, thus, the need for applicants to really strive for excellence when taking up the examination to be able to qualify as one of the future students of the PSHS.
Albaracin claimed that there are PSHS graduates who have excelled in their respective fields in the international arena while some of them have opted to pursue their studies in prestigious institutions in different developed countries that will surely contribute in improving their skills and knowledge on their chosen fields of expertise.
According to him, there has been a significant increase in the number of individuals wanting to enter the secondary education institution but the slots have been limited to the upper 90 percent of the class to avoid overcrowding in the classrooms and the dormitories, aside from having optimal use of the existing facilities.
Students who are qualified to take up the entrance examination are those who belong to the upper 10 percent of the graduating class while the upper 90 percent of the examinees will be accepted as the incoming freshmen.
Albaracin said that the institution will increase the students who will be accepted once the expansion of its facilities, including buildings, will be completed so that more youngsters wanting to take up science and technology courses can be accommodated.
For the past several years, PSHS-CAR had been producing top-caliber graduates who excelled in researches and other science-related projects that earned local and international recognitions from various award-giving bodies in science and technology.
Albaracin urged the youth from the different parts of the Cordillera to try their luck by taking up the entrance examination offered by the institution for them to be able to develop their skills and knowledge in science, technology, engineering and mathematics-related courses that will be able to help them achieve their aspirations to become successful professionals. By Dexter A. See
