<p>University of Pittsburgh:</p>
<p>Dean's List: 3.5 with full load and no "W" for the semester</p>
<p>Cum Laude: 3.25</p>
<p>Magna Cum Laude: 3.5 (what I fell under)</p>
<p>Summa Cum Laude: 3.75</p>
<p>Brown:</p>
<p>The top fifth of the class (counted by the absolute number of As, since we don't have GPA)</p>
<p>I think we probably have it easiest, however, since it means next to nothing, it's not a big deal.</p>
<p>I go to UCSD too. We do not have grade inflation. None of the UCs do. They are public schools, they aren't charging 50,000 in tuition, so they don't care if we fail. I have personally been in a class where literally half of the kids failed.</p>
<p>The reason we have such high requirements for Latin honors is b/c UCSD is the "premed haven". We have a HUGE percentage of our student body that is preparing for med school. According to career center people, we have the highest acceptance rate to med school and send the most students to med school out of any college in the US. THAT is why our honors levels have to be so high. Because we have so many premed kids who are anal about everything and will completely sacrifice their social lives to get As.</p>
<p>Don't believe me? When considering applicants for admission to med school, schools multiply your gpa by a certain number depending on your school. They can't disclose the exact numbers, but a UC's number is higher than Stanford, Columbia, Brown, etc. b/c all of these schools are private and they have grade inflation to keep those kids' parents sending those fat checks in.</p>
<p>NYU...I could be wrong though:</p>
<p>cum laude: 3.5+
magna cum laude: 3.7+
summa cum laude: 3.9+</p>
<p>Not sure about dean's list...</p>
<p>wow, I graduated from u wash with 3.79 and barely got cum laude... and I don't feel like there's a grade inflation there.. what the hell.</p>
<p>eviltwin6,.....I have looked at the data that you do not bother to mention and I am familiar with it..... and you are wrong. None of the UCs and certainly not UCSD makes it to the top 5 universities with the largest number of admits to med schools... Harvard, Yale and Brown are the top 3....</p>
<p>actually eviltwin said that there was a large number of people preparing for med school and that the number used in the application process is higher than Brown and other top schools. He/she didn't say anything about the % of those preparing that actually get accepted to med school. He/she also never said it was in the 5 of schools with a large number of people planning to go to med school, he/she just said there were a lot of people. Read carefully.</p>
<p>Sorry to resurrect, the thread, but eviltwin6: Yes they do. While UCSD isn't listed on the site I got the data from (<a href="http://gradeinflation.com/%5B/url%5D">http://gradeinflation.com/</a>), it appears that all the UCs (except Riverside, though the reason for this is given) are experiencing at least some grade inflation. They aren't bad compared to other schools though - generally they are around the national average.</p>
<p>As for the number on GPA multipliers based on school - I'm inclined to just call BS straight away because of the common knowledge that med schools are notorious for not taking into account which school you go to when looking at your GPA (thus why very smart students at Princeton, with GPA deflation policies, and Caltech, one of the hardest schools in the US, both get screwed compared to less smart students at some other schools). But if I'm wrong, prove it: show me the source you're getting these numbers from. Your career center peoples' off-the-cuff anecdotal reasons don't count, by the way. This is especially true for career center people who say that UCSD has the highest med school acceptance rate in the US - which is patently false.</p>
<p>Or, to prove me wrong about UCSD being relatively easy, post the average GPA (I can't find it, though I've tried).</p>
<p>At my school:</p>
<p>Dean's List: 3.5
Morons Cum Laude: 2.0</p>
<p>3.0=honours
3.5=honours w/distinction</p>
<p>@McGill...we have serious grade deflation</p>
<p>No such thing at MIT</p>
<p>The degree is the honor :)</p>
<p>Here at UBC, we need an 85% average, or 4.0 GPA to get onto the Dean's List. Hard.</p>
<p>Speaking of Dean's List... I somehow ended up with a 3.95 for this semester, making my academic year GPA a 3.75, so I'm on the Dean's list here at UPenn :)</p>
<p>Just want add to doverdemon post, its 85% average for the best 27 credits (around 9 normal classes) per year</p>
<p>Fordham University
3.5 for dean's list </p>
<p>3.6 cum laude
3.7 magna cum laude
3.8 summa cum laude</p>
<p>I suppose this must be because Pitt is a public school, but we certainly have no inflation when I look at the numbers that the top 5-15% (aka Magna Cum Laude) get at other institutions. I only know I was in the top 15% because I was told this on my invite to Golden Key, but despite being in the top 15%, I graduated Magna Cum Laude with a 3.6 GPA. I started wondering about grade inflation at other schools when I looked at fellow PA state-related institution PSU (since my cousin just graduated from there without honors) and noticed that their “distinction” honors fluctuate to keep with percentages and that their “cum laude” range began at 3.76 in the Arts. How can a school allow that many kids (25%) to end up with a 3.75 unless they are not grading them tough enough? I used to think Pitt was easy on its students (despite the fact that my grades are amongst the highest of anyone I knew there) until I started looking at what GPA’s kids are getting at other universities! “Hail to Pitt” for keeping its standards high!</p>
<p>Michigan CoE:</p>
<p>Dean’s List: 3.5</p>
<p>Cum Laude: 3.2 (at graduation - top ~40%)
Magna Cum Laude: 3.5 (at graduation - top ~20%)
Summa Cum Laude: 3.75 (at graduation - top ~5%)</p>
<p>I think CoE is the only school at Michigan to have this.</p>
<p>Summa Cum Laude: a cumulative GPA of 3.95-4.00</p>
<p>Magna Cum Laude: a cumulative GPA of 3.75-3.949</p>
<p>Cum Laude: a cumulative GPA of 3.50-3.749</p>
<p>Dean’s List is 3.25+ for freshmen, 3.5+ for everyone else. President’s List is 4.0. It’s based on the semester.</p>
<p>Right now, I have a 3.95. Shooting for summa cum laude.</p>
<p>Apparently our summa cum laude requirements are pretty high from what I’m gathering around here.</p>
<p>EDIT: And woah! Thread is old!</p>
<p>I know this thread is old, but I also go to UCSD, and I think the reason why the standards for Latin honors are so high is because there is a smaller percentage of students who receive the honors. Only the top 2% get summa cum laude, the next 4% get magna cum laude, and the next 8% get cum laude. These standards are set by the previous year’s class, however.
I am not sure about grade inflation, but the grade average seems to be set at C+/B- in the classes I’ve taken so far (in my first year).</p>
<p>I go to Trinity University in Texas.</p>
<p>Our requirements are:</p>
<p>Dean’s List - 3.650 enrolled in 15 credit hours
Cum Laude - 3.500
Magna - 3.750
Summa - 3.875</p>