Scholarship at Stanford U awaits Pinoy valedictorian

A scholarship grant from the Stanford University in Palo Alto, California awaits seventeen-year-old Filipino student Gil Adrian "Ryan" Torres, class valedictorian of the International School Bangkok in Thailand, when he comes to the United States to pursue an engineering course in September.

Apart from Stanford, Torres was also accepted at the Ivy-League-member Brown University and waitlisted at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

He graduated top of 150 students last June 6 with a grade point average of 4.28, being the first Filipino at ISB to have earned such a distinction.

He was also the recipient of the Student Council Leadership Award, Computer Science Award, and Mathematics Award.

He spent seven years in Bangkok, a major commercial and transportation hub in Asia, that exposed him to the cultures not just of the Thai people, but also of different nationalities.