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Wiprud would go on to take all the classes for a concentration in music and by senior year, was skipping his science classes in order to compose. Nonetheless, he graduated cum laude with a degree in biochemistry...
...college-wide reduction in summa, magna, and cum honors means that the three distinctions will be awarded to 60 percent of the class, leaving 40 percent with no Latin honor on their diploma. This hard line cutoff will not affect English honors, which concentrations can still award to those who fall below the cutoff line for Latin honors...
...honors candidates in the graduating class, GPA will be the factor that determines the cutoff points. The top 5 percent of recommended students will be awarded summa, the next 15 percent awarded magna, and the next 30 percent awarded cum. The College has allotted that an additional 10 percent of the class may receive honors due to their high GPAs, even without receiving a departmental recommendation...
...going to be cut at the College level,” says Elisa New, director of undergraduate studies for English and American Literature and Language. “Unless they really wanted to write a thesis, they may as well take two courses which would make them eligible for cum either...
...more than 10 percent of students with high GPA’s who are not recommended by their concentration for honors may also receive cum laude degrees. Such students are chiefly those who have chosen not to write theses or pursue other honors projects, O’Keefe wrote...