If your transcript shows "HONORS TO..." you're in the top 20% of your college, right?

<p>At the EECS career fair today, I couldn't help noticing that every other resum</p>

<p>damn, 3.8X at least? That's depressing.
I know 3.94+ is top 3%, depending on which engineering major. But does anyone know what GPA it takes to graduate with "high honors"? My gpa takes a nose dive over the last 2 semesters....sucks.</p>

<p>The CoE doesn't seem to publish the cutoffs. However, others do:</p>

<p>Natural</a> Resources: 3.877, 3.750, 3.577
Letters</a> & Science: 3.919, 3.799, 3.669</p>

<p>I really can't imagine the CoE's numbers being higher than L&S's...or are the cutoffs higher at the high end? Also, I'm pretty sure that you compete with students in your entire college, not just those within your major.</p>

<p>How many students are majoring in EECS? Judging from yesterday's probably biased sample, I'd have guessed that the top 3% cutoff was at least a 3.98. But that obviously can't be the case.</p>

<p>As for high honors, here's a [url=<a href="http://www.devbistro.com/resumes/jhjwoo%5D3.79%5B/url"&gt;http://www.devbistro.com/resumes/jhjwoo]3.79[/url&lt;/a&gt;] in 2006. A [url=<a href="http://www.nutopia.uni.cc/%7Ejonc/self/big_transcript.html%5D3.72%5B/url"&gt;http://www.nutopia.uni.cc/~jonc/self/big_transcript.html]3.72[/url&lt;/a&gt;] from 2001 didn't make it. I'm not sure I want to know what the exact cutoffs are because once I do, I tend to miss them. (It's like every time I aim for an A-, I get a B+ kind of thing.)</p>