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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 concentration recommends them for high honors will be awarded magna cum laude degrees, bringing the total number of summa and magna degrees to no more than 20 percent...

Author: By Sara E. Polsky, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Honors Drop Irks Seniors | 10/19/2004 | See Source »

While Rachael A. Wagner ’04, who graduated summa, said that she didn’t think graduating this year versus next year would have affected her all that much—because summa cum laude honors will remain capped at five percent as they were this year—she admitted that the new restrictions have their disadvantages...

Author: By Margaret W. Ho, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: After Decline, Magna Honors Rose in 2004 | 6/25/2004 | See Source »

...honors, approved by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in May 2002, restricts magna and summa awards to 20 percent of the graduating class and permits no more than 50 percent of the class to graduate summa, magna or cum laude. The policy will go into effect next year...

Author: By Margaret W. Ho, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: After Decline, Magna Honors Rose in 2004 | 6/25/2004 | See Source »

Thanks to a new cap on honors approved by the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in May of 2002, magna and summa awards will be limited to 20 percent of the class, and no more than 50 percent of the class will be allowed to graduate summa, magna or cum laude...

Author: By Anne K. Kofol, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Graduating Seniors Rack Up Honors While They Can | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

Seventy-five of the candidates, nearly 5 percent of the graduating class, earned summa cum laude diplomas, the highest degree awarded by the College, in their fields of concentration. Fifty-eight candidates will receive magna cum laude with highest honors, based on their entire coursework, and 471 will be given magna cum laude in their fields of concentration. Four hundred and twenty eight will be awarded cum laude in general studies, while 404 will receive cum laude in their fields of concentration...

Author: By Elena Sorokin, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard To Give 6,154 Degrees | 6/10/2004 | See Source »

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