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Because Latin honors are often conferred to the approximate class rank whereby students also receive the dean's list (as the top 10 to 15 percent), magna and summa cum laude are usually held in higher regard. A dean's list may therefore be seen as equal to (or more prestigious than) cum laude, depending on the specific requirements involved.
In all other years during that time period, the top student only managed to obtain the magna cum laude distinction. Since 2008, to address the difficulty of obtaining the summa cum laude distinction, in a year where no student manages to meet the GPA cut-off, Harvard will now award summa cum laude to the top student of the year. [136]
summa cum laude: with highest praise: summa potestas: sum or totality of power: It refers to the final authority of power in government. For example, power of the Sovereign. summa summarum: all in all: Literally "sum of sums". When a short conclusion is rounded up at the end of some elaboration. summum bonum: the supreme good: Literally ...
Among the few universities that do so, the Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA—Technological Institute of Aeronautics) awards the cum laude honor for graduates with every individual grade above 8.5 (out of 10.0), the magna cum laude honor for graduates with average grade above 8.5 and more than 50% of individual grades above 9.5, and ...
This template is used for Wikipedians who identify themselves as having graduated summa cum laude ("with highest honor"), magna cum laude ("with great honor"), or cum laude ("with praise" or "with honor").
The Scarbrough Building in downtown Austin, home of the University of Austin. The University of Austin (UATX) is a private [4] liberal arts university located in Austin, Texas. [5] The university has established a campus in downtown Austin's Scarbrough Building, and enrolled its first undergraduate cohort in the fall of 2024. [6] [7]
UT's admissions are dictated by state law: the top 6% of all Texas high school students are offered automatic entry to the university — making up 75% of the school's incoming class.
magna cum laude: with great praise: Common Latin honor, above cum laude and below summa cum laude: magna di curant, parva neglegunt: The gods care about great matters, but they neglect small ones: Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2:167 magna est vis consuetudinis: great is the power of habit: Magna Europa est patria nostra: Greater Europe is Our Fatherland