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Taylor graduated Phi Beta Kappa and magna cum laude from Connecticut College in 1968. She received her law degree from the University of Pennsylvania...
Pilbeam adds that he hoped that the stricter attention to the percentage of summas would also filter down to the recommendations for magna and cum laude degrees...
...Those people who could easily attain magna or summa need to be recognized for high level achievements," Wang says. "Cum is the minimum they should receive...
...There's just not a tradition of these candidates getting kicked back [to magna grants]," he says. "We are tougher on summas than any other department at Harvard...
Summa inflation was not the only concern of the Faculty. Others have also noted a concomitant rise in the number of students who get magna cum laude and cum laude...