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...yesterday’s faculty meeting, the Faculty of Arts and Sciences affirmed that students are expected to earn A-range grades across all areas of study in order to be considered for a summa cum laude degree...
...order to make summa requirements more clear to students—to promote “truth in advertising,” as Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences Jeremy R. Knowles said yesterday—the Faculty approved an amendment to the official Faculty policies on granting degrees...
...think the language doesn’t direct students to what is expected of them,” Thomas said. “If we are legislating an actual principle [that students must receive A-range grades across all areas in order to qualify for a summa degree], we should go ahead and make that a requirement...
When the number of summa degrees awarded by the Faculty reached 160 in 1996, the Faculty passed legislation in 1997 which suggested that the percentage of summa degrees awarded to Harvard undergraduates should fall between 4 and 5 percent of the graduating class. The number of summa degrees awarded today averages roughly 140 per year...
Grades are higher today than ever, yes. But it is not difficult at all for Harvard students to distinguish themselves academically. No matter how much grade inflation there is, for example, the number of summa cum laude graduates remains capped at approximately 5 percent of the class. No matter how much grades inflate, the number of Junior Phi Beta Kappa inductees remains 24. Even more telling, and something that surprises most people when they hear of it, is that last year graduating senior Kevin S. Schwartz ’01 (now a Marshall Scholar) was the first undergraduate in eight...