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...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...
Social Studies has recommended 89 out of the 90 graduating seniors in the concentration for some form of honors—73 percent of those for either of the two highest honors, summa or magna, according to Bernstein...
...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...
Seventy-five candidates, who constitute nearly five percent of the graduating class, earned summa cum laude diplomas, the highest degree awarded by the College, in their fields of concentration. Sixty-two candidates will receive magna cum laude with highest honors, based on their entire coursework and overall grade point average (GPA), and 184 will be given magna cum laude in their fields of concentration. Thirty-nine will be awarded cum laude in general studies, while 476 will receive cum laude in their fields of concentration...
Fifty percent of today’s graduating class, about 790 students, will receive summa cum laude, magna cum laude, or cum laude in field degrees. Up to an additional 10 percent of departing seniors will receive cum laude degrees recognizing their overall high grade point averages (GPAs), without being recommended by their concentrations...