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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...
Getting the job was a long shot, even for a summa-candidate, Phi Beta Kappa economics concentrator from Harvard. One-hundred twenty applicants competed for two spots...
Malkin focused mainly on academics in college—though he never considered a career in academia—and graduated summa cum laude with a degree in government. He was also involved in Crimson Key, the golf team, and the Hasty Pudding Social Club...
Around five percent of the members of the graduating class who have been recommended for highest honors in their concentrations will receive summa cum laude degrees, the same cap from previous years. Students whose concentrations recommend them for high honors may be awarded magna cum laude degrees, bringing the total number of summa and magna degrees to no more than 20 percent...