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...faculty approved changes to the system which will cap honors designations at 60 percent of each graduating class—a far cry from the 90 percent who left this place with Latin insignia on their diplomas when designations were based on GPA cutoffs. This year will be the first that seniors will graduate under the new system, and some members of the Class of 2005 have already begun to protest, citing confusion and lack of transparency...
...News bases the ratings on a composite of several elements including assessments by deans and faculty of graduate schools as well as recruiters and professionals in the field, employment rates, scores on standardized tests, the average undergraduate GPA, acceptance rates, and the average starting salary for graduates, among others...
...addition to GPA, the criteria for selection, according to the Phi Beta Kappa website, includes “excellence, reach, originality, and rigor” and “depth of study and breadth of intellectual interest...
Harvard Admissions Criteria: Perfect SAT's, GPA, Legacy status
...longer offer them in-state tuition rates. For New Mexico’s undocumented immigrants, this meant the cost of higher education had just risen by as much as 400 percent. Immigrants also lost access to scholarships that are available to all New Mexico students who maintain a certain GPA. Working immigrant families found themselves priced out of the market. Their children, who had broken no law, now had no opportunity to get a college education. The rhetoric at the time was that immigrants were leeching off America. But these students weren’t asking for a handout...