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...particular, the council wants to amend the clauses in the standards for magna and cum laude degrees that equate pass-fail and failing grades in non-concentration courses...
Under rules the Faculty passed last month, candidates for magna degrees must have grades of B or above in half their courses outside their concentration requirements. Candidates for cum laude degrees need at least a B- in half the non-concentration courses...
...honors committee will consider requiring a fixed number of honors grades outside the honors candidates' concentration requirements for magna and cum laude degrees, Pipkin said...
Then there are people who are downright cheery about underemployment. Robin McElheny, a 1975 magna cum laude Radcliffe graduate who describes her undergraduate education as "worthless," works as a housecleaner in Boston and hopes to become a quiltmaker. "I enjoy cleaning houses," she says, "and I meet a lot of people doing it." For some, such as a Wellesley graduate working as a groom at a prep school's stables, there is even a certain blue-collar chic in low level jobs...
Under the new requirements, pass-fail courses reduce a candidate's chances for magna and cum laude degrees, beginning with the class...