Cum laude decisions

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<p>Hey, does anyone know how schools usually decide who is cum laude? Is it usually based just on gpa or weighted gpa or rank or do some schools factor in other things. It seems larger schools might decide based on gpa but some smaller schools might have other criteria. Any idea how it's usually done or how your school does it? Thanks.</p>

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<p>Our school is entirely GPA(weighted).</p>

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<p>D’s school was top ten percent and based on GPA.</p>

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<p>I go to a boarding school and Cum Laude is decided by just a couple of teachers based on grades but also some other characteristics which no one understands and they don’t talk about. Seems like some students are selected who don’t deserve it. I’m wondering if this is unusual and whether most schools go strictly by rank or gpa or weighted gpa. What does your school do? Anyone face questions of fairness in the process?</p>

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<p>Are you talking about high school or college?</p>

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<p>High school’s don’t have cum laude or magna cum laude … right? Well my school doesn’t. I always thought it was something used in college.</p>

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<p>I go to a high school/prep school. Some high schools or prep schools or private schools use cum laude as an honor like colleges.</p>

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<p>GPA and a teacher voting component.</p>

<p>I’m pretty sure I had the GPA, but I didn’t get in this year. :(</p>

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<p>Cum Laude Society in prep/boarding schools is normally instead of NHS. At my daughter’s bs it was top 10%, strictly by GPA. They didn’t weight any grades.</p>

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<p>our daughter’s boarding school was strictly top 15% of class. Same for our son’s school.</p>

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<p>Are we talking Cum Laude Society or Latin honors?
Here (public school with CLS not NHS), induction into Cum Laude is based on unweighted GPA and “citizenship,” which is basically being a person whom teachers like and who doesn’t have a ton of detentions or any more serious punishments. I think we do unweighted GPA because we already have a lot of awards based on weighted GPA.
Graduating with Latin Honors, Summa, Magna or plain cum laude, is pure weighted GPA here, I think.</p>

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<p>At our school it seems like they take all the kids with like a B+ or better and then pick from them based on citizenship, scholarship, etc. It does seem like favoritism plays into it, they skip a lot of the kids taking the toughest classes. The school doesn’t rank and they really don’t say the criteria so some kids who were left out are upset. Here’s another link I just found that talks about it. It does seem like most schools go by rank or gpa or weighted gpa which seems the most fair.</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/170715-cum-laude-society.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/college-admissions/170715-cum-laude-society.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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At my high school, it is based off weighted GPA.
Summa Cum Laude (Weighted GPA > 4.5)
Magna Cum Laude (Weighted GPA 4.00-4.49)
Cum Laude (Weighted GPA 3.5-3.99)

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