<p>I read here:</p>
<p>CALS</a> Registrar: Latin Honors</p>
<p>that you need a 4.0 or higher to graduate summa cum laude. How do you get higher than a 4.0, are some classes weighted? Other then that, it appears to me as if it is basically impossible to graduate summa cum laude then...</p>
<p>on another note, do employers care about these honors or do they just look at your GPA holistically</p>
<p>an A+ is a 4.333, that’s how you get higher than a 4.0</p>
<p>[Academic</a> Grades and Notations](<a href=“http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/studentservices/policies/grades.html]Academic”>http://www.ilr.cornell.edu/studentservices/policies/grades.html)</p>
<p>A+ is 4.3. There are definitely students with >4.0, but it definitely is not easy. I also doubt latin honors matter because not all colleges at cornell even offer them, and the requirements are different among the colleges that do. GPA is much more important. I think CALS latin honors are a joke anyways because there are no requirements outside of GPA.</p>
<p>This recent article from the daily sun cover the topic well:</p>
<p>[A</a> Well-Deserved Honor | The Cornell Daily Sun](<a href=“http://cornellsun.com/section/opinion/content/2009/04/27/well-deserved-honor]A”>http://cornellsun.com/section/opinion/content/2009/04/27/well-deserved-honor)</p>