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Under the new honors guidelines, the proportion of seniors who may graduate with summa cum laude and magna cum laude degrees will be limited to 20 percent of the class. Summa cum laude honors will continue to be capped at five percent of seniors, as they have been for the past few years...
...proposal suggests that after departmental recommendations for magna and summa degrees are made, the awards would be given to 20 percent of the class—with the customary 5 percent reserved for summa and 15 percent receiving magna...
...under the proposed system, those students who were not recommended for honors by their department could still receive honors if they had a GPA higher than the minimum required to earn magna honors of those recommended for honors by their departments...
While her childhood daydreams may have stopped at the beginning of the alphabet, Mira’s meteoric rise has shown no signs of slowing down. Before bursting onto the Hollywood scene, her penchant for As got her all the way to Harvard, where she graduated magna cum laude in East Asian Studies. As the former Cabot House resident—she loved the Quad, by the way—lounges in a spacious conference room on the second floor of the luxurious Ritz Carlton Boston Common, she chats casually about her latest film, Triumph of Love, while reflecting...
Fifteen percent of the ranking is based on honors: 5 percent for percentage of concentrators who graduate with any Latin honors, 5 percent for percentage of those who graduate magna and summa and 5 percent for percentage of those who graduate summa. Our assumption is that a higher percentage of honors indicates greater academic achievement and rigor in the concentration...