Gloria Borlabi: Meet UG Student who Emerged as Valedictorian After Rejection from Law School
- A brilliant University of Ghana student called Gloria Borlabi who was denied admission into Law School later graduated as valedictorian
- Gloria Borlabi had missed the cut-off point into Law School by just one point and had to take a different programme as a result
- Four years later, Gloria was not only a valedictorian as she also won two prestigious awards from the university for her extraordinary exploits
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Gloria Borlabi, a brilliant Ghanaian lady came out as a valedictorian for the Bachelor of Arts Programme in 2020 at the University of Ghana.
According to a report by edwardasare.com, Gloria initially desired to study law but was denied admission into the Law School.
She, therefore, decided to study Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, Information Studies and Russian and won multiple awards for her academic work.
Source: UGC
Recalling how that rejection made her feel in 2016 after missing the cut-off point by one mark, Gloria said:
“Words cannot describe how bad I felt but I decided to still take the chance to study Political Science, Information Studies and Russian".
Fast-forward to four years later, Gloria received prizes for the overall best graduating Bachelor of Arts student and the best graduating female student in the Bachelor of Arts programme.
See Gloria deliver her Valedictory speech below:
In another exciting report by YEN.com.gh, Rita Adjoa Tawiah Abodoh, a fourth-year medical student at the KNUST School of Medicine and Dentistry (KSMD) of the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), has successfully undergone an expensive surgery.
YEN.com.gh previously reported that the young lady had a malignant tumour which the doctors had confirmed to be in her right pelvic bone.
The brilliant and beautiful young lady needed to undergo an urgent procedure that involved the removal of the affected pelvic bone and replacement with a prosthesis.
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