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The weighting for each of those factors also varies, often depending on consideration of theses. Some scientific concentrations, such as chemistry, have no thesis requirement at all but provide honors based entirely on grades and exams.
She says she was surprised to receive a summa nomination for her thesis, titled "Alcohol Dependence and the Brain: Towards an Understanding of Gene-Environment Interactions."
"I was hoping for a magna," she says. "That was my more realistic goal. The grades that I got back from my thesis were a lot higher than I expected."
In that department, grades and thesis evaluations each count for 40 percent of the evaluation, with the other 20 percent based on the results of the general written exams. But there is some flexibility--a very good thesis may be weighted as 50 percent and grades only 30 percent, Metrick...
Thesis Grades