From hauling nets at sea in Bantayan Island to ranking among the country’s top Bar passers, Jeowy Loyloy Ompad of the University of San Jose-Recoletos ranked sixth in the 2025 Bar Examinations with a 91.25 percent rating, making him the lone Cebuano topnotcher. The Supreme Court released the results on Wednesday, January 7, 2026. Ompad in a press conference shared that his upbringing in a family of fisherfolk and a life of hardship strongly shaped his decision to become a lawyer. He said his fat