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Olamide Oluwatade, a resilient Nigerian female who had scored several rejections has emerged as the best graduating student from the University of Ilorin where she bagged first class degree in Mathematics with an astonishing 4.65 cumulative grade point average (CGPA). Olamide, who was denied university admission to study medicine four times but said she settled for mathematics because that is what came easy.
Although she had intended to study Medicine, Olamide emerged as the only female first-class graduate in her class and the best-graduating student of Mathematics. She revealed her powerful story on LinkedIn, she wrote about all the things that kept her determined and strong in university.
A major difficulty she shared was the death of her father a week before she university entrance exam, affecting both in terms during and after school. But, Olamide never gave up and won herself an academic hat-trick – creating a legendary rags to riches tale in the process.
The success story of Olamide speaks to resiliency and following one’s strengths, which serves as an inspiration for students everywhere that might meet obstacles at certain points in their academic journeys.
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